Current status: keeping an eye on the cloud (so you don’t have to)

Not a bad way to start the summer: saw Papa Roach, Linkin Park, Queens of the Stone Age, *and* the legendary System of a Down live, in two different venues/countries, just 5 days apart. Thank you past me for making this happen! #BeKindToYourFutureSelf

Well, it worked. Sort of.

Packing up for trip to Hamburg for ISC’26… If you’re a sticker fan like I am, come find me and get some of these to decorate your laptop! #ISC26 #HPC

Day 1 of the joint EasyBuild / EESSI / Spack tutorial at CINECA, co-organized with the MaX EuroHPC Centre-of-Exellence, starts with an introduction to all 3 projects, followed by an introduction to the EuroHPC Federation Platform. @easybuild.bsky.social @eessi.bsky.social @spackpm.bsky.social

Some hard decisions were made this morning... #laptop #stickers

In Belgium, we have *rules* about our beers…

#FOSDEM sticker love

It's not too late yet to register for the first introductory webinar on the upcoming EuroHPC Federation Platform on Wed 4 Feb'26 13:00-14:00 CET! Registration for 2nd webinar on the Federated Software Catalog based on EESSI is also open now. More info via my-eurohpc.eu/training/

Looking back to amazing #FOSDEM weekend. Best one ever for me, for a broad variety of reasons: my first talk in Main Track, group dinner sponsored by #HPSF, super smooth #HPC devroom thanks to volunteers, other devrooms that I supported a bit being run well, noticeable increase in young attendees, …

A handful of seats left in #HPC devroom at #FOSDEM, come join us! We’re in a black box in H1308 this year, but there’s a pleasant flow of fresh air… Current talk is by Tobias Kremer (ECMWF) on Zarr More info via fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

Good thing it's only on average... #macOS

It's that time of the year again... #FOSDEM #HPC #community #FOSS #traditionsaretheretobekept

Looking back to an excellent EESSI CI/CD hackathon in Copenhagen, which we organized in the wake of the EuroHPC User Days 2025. Enthusiastic group of attendees, both in-person and remote. Already looking forward to doing this again (perhaps in the wake of EuroHPC Summit 2026 in Cyprus...) #HPC

When you’re in Copenhagen, do as the Danish do: go to a Disturbed concert to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their debut album. Fire, sparks, huge inflatables, great live music, enthusiastic crowd… Oh, and somehow pay more than 10 Euro for a single normal-sized beer (tasty though!)

Copenhagen, I like the way you name your beers. And it’s quite tasty too! #tool @toolmusic.bsky.social

Felt like 16 again last night attending a local music festival, which featured The Servants, a local #Nirvana tribute band, who are eerily good if you ask me… Feel a lot less like 16 today, more like 60 😂

Trying to survive blistering heat today at the Graspop metal festival by staying hydrated…

Does anyone know if there are still computer nerds (or computer history musea) out there that are looking for ancient historical gems like this, a DEC Alpha 21164 system? No idea if it still works. If someone is interested, or if you know someone I can reach out to, let me know.

Join the CASTIEL2 "Code of the Month" session Wed 30 April'25 11:00 CEST on ESPResSo, a highly versatile software package for performing and analyzing scientific Molecular Dynamics (MD) many-particle simulations. one of the key applications in @multixscale.bsky.social zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Not a bad day today in the north of The Netherlands with wife & kids… #sun #water #boat #chill #nokeyboardinsight

Great fun at the “Keeping the P in #HPC” social event for the 10th EasyBuild User Meeting yesterday, fully sponsored by Do IT Now (www.doitnowgroup.com).

Time for some fun at the “Keeping the P in HPC” during the social event for the 10th EasyBuild User Meeting at the Michael Schumacher Kart Center.

Kicking off day two of the 10th EasyBuild User Meeting at Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) with a keynote by Jeff Hammond (NVIDIA) Live stream via www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-4p... Slides will be made available via easybuild.io/eum25/#program @fzj-jsc.bsky.social #HPC

To celebrate the release of EasyBuild v5.0.0, I am giving away a *free EasyBuild coffee mug* to the first person at the EuroHPC Summit in Kraków this week who can show me hands-on that they have installed EasyBuild v5.0.0. Send me a message in LinkedIn or the EasyBuild Slack if you want to meet up!

#FOSDEM is a place to learn about new open source software projects, have deeply technical discussions fuelled by beers, and get to know new people. It’s also a place to meet up with friends you haven’t seen in a while, and they may bring gifts: beer, wine, cookies, chocolate, magnets, stickers…

Got to the AI Plumbers conference in Ghent just in time to catch talk on Tenstorrent hardware+ software by @fclc.bsky.social I had high expectations, yet I’m totally blown away 🤯 Fantastic talk, which I will need to see several times again to really digest it all (was recorded).

Let's check the inbox damage after the FOSDEM '25 weekend. Erm...

Post-#FOSDEM euphoria (and exhaustion) is kicking in… I feel encouraged, inspired, supported, amazed. What an event!

Current talk in the 10th #HPC, Big Data and Data Science at #FOSDEM25 is Henrik Nortamo (CSC.fi) on the EuroHPC Federation Platform, an ambitious project to develop a one-stop portal & associated services on EuroHPC JU (@eurohpc-ju.bsky.social) supercomputers. More info: fosdem.org/2025/schedul...