VSC | Vlaams Supercomputer Centrum

🎉 YouTube turns 20! We're celebrating by spotlighting the VSC YouTube channel – your hub for tutorials, research, and HPC insights in Flanders. 📚 Learn. 💡 Discover. 🔧 Get support. 👉 Subscribe now: youtube.com/@vschpc #YouTubeTurns20 #HPC #Supercomputing #AI #DataScience #VSC

🌬️ Can atmospheric gravity waves boost offshore wind farm efficiency? Researchers from the von Karman Institute used VSC's Tier-1 Hortense supercomputer to reveal efficiency gains of up to 4.5% in North Sea wind farm clusters. 🔗 www.vscentrum.be/post/impact-...

🎤 Meet the #BSD26 Speakers! 🚀 From a laptop prototype to production runs on LUMI! Meet Gilles Poncelet (UCLouvain), presenting "murphy", an adaptive solver for large-scale simulations powered by #HPC. 🎟️ Few places remaining! 👉 www.vscentrum.be/bsd26 #Supercomputing #Research

🌍 How can #HPC help predict Belgium's future climate? 🎤 Meet Xavier Fettweis (ULiège) at #BSD26! Discover how the MAR regional climate model uses HPC for high-resolution climate projections through 2100. 📅 Nov 13 | Brussels 👉 www.vscentrum.be/bsd26 #Supercomputing #ClimateResearch

🔬 RESEARCH SHOWCASE | How does high oxygen exposure affect vitamin K2 production? Researchers found that high aeration reduces MK-7 production in *Staphylococcus shinii*. VSC computing resources supported in-depth transcriptomic analysis. 🔗 www.vscentrum.be/post/vitamin... #HPC #Biotechnology

⚡ Your HPC research deserves the spotlight! 🎤 Share your work at the #BSD26 Lightning Talks and connect with Belgium’s HPC community! 🚀 Nearly 80% of places are already reserved! 📅 13 Nov | Brussels 👉 Lightning Talk guidelines: vscentrum.be/bsd26#bsd26-lt #HPC #Supercomputing

🎤 Meet the #BSD26 Speakers Meet Wilbert den Hertog from UHasselt, presenting “Using the VSC to simulate how wounds heal” and exploring the role of #HPC in burn wound simulations. 📅 13 Nov | Brussels 🎟️ Register: www.vscentrum.be/bsd26 #Supercomputing #Research

🎤 Meet the #BSD26 Speakers Meet Dr. Marcel Parciak from the Data Science Institute at UHasselt, presenting (EpiJax), a GPU-accelerated framework for modelling infectious disease dynamics. 📅 13 Nov | Brussels 🎟️ Register: www.vscentrum.be/bsd26 #HPC #Supercomputing #DataScience

🎤 Meet the #BSD26 Speakers Meet Alexandre Tkatchenko from the University of Luxembourg, joining BSD26 for an invited plenary session on the evolving role of #HPC in molecular simulations. 📅 13 Nov 2026 | Brussels 🎟️ Register: www.vscentrum.be/bsd26 #Supercomputing #Research

🔬 RESEARCH SHOWCASE | Is scientific research really becoming less disruptive? VUB & KU Leuven researchers uncovered how missing citation data exaggerated the reported decline, using VSC high-memory computing to analyse millions of papers. 👉 www.vscentrum.be/post/a-hidde... #HPC #Research

🛠️ Learn to create and modify build files in our hybrid training session: CMake – Introduction 📅 7 Oct 2026 | 09:00–12:00 CEST 📍 ICTS KU Leuven or online 👨‍🏫 Mag Selwa Register: www.vscentrum.be/events/cmake... #CMake #HPC #ScientificSoftware

⚡ Working on an interesting HPC project, research result, or technical challenge? Bring it to #BSD26 and share it with Belgium's HPC community. Lightning Talks — short, focused, open to researchers and HPC users. 📅 13 Nov 2026, Brussels 👉 vscentrum.be/bsd26#bsd26-lt

🇧🇪 Registration is now open for Belgian Supercomputing Day 2026 #BSD26! Join Belgium’s HPC community for a day of talks, HPC use cases, Lightning Talks & networking. 📅 13 Nov 2026 📍 Brussels 🎟️ Free participation — limited seats Register 👉 www.vscentrum.be/bsd26 #HPC #Supercomputing

🇧🇪 From Users Day 2025 to Belgian Supercomputing Day 2026. This year, we're going national. On 13 November 2026, HPC users, researchers, and partners from across Belgium come together in Brussels. Save the date: vscentrum.be/bsd26 #BSD26 #HPC

🔬 RESEARCH SHOWCASE | Can AI assess freezing of gait across Parkinson’s cohorts? VSC’s GPU infrastructure supported a seven-cohort study and hundreds of deep-learning models, while experts retained the final say. www.vscentrum.be/post/can-ai-...

🌞 Looking ahead to the total solar eclipse on 12 August 2026. Prof. Stefaan Poedts’ research group at @KU_Leuven is using VSC infrastructure and the COCONUT model to produce daily predictions of the Sun’s corona. Follow the predictions: homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~tinatinb/ec...

🏆 Francqui-Collen Prize 2026 for Prof. Diether Lambrechts (KU Leuven & VIB)! From genomic data to precision medicine, his pioneering cancer research highlights the power of advanced computing in driving scientific breakthroughs. Proud to support researchers making a real-world impact. 👏

Research Showcase Researchers from Ghent University used VSC Tier-1 resources to uncover how atomic-scale surface defects influence III-V quantum dots, helping identify promising materials for next-generation infrared sensors and optoelectronic devices. 🔗 www.vscentrum.be/post/impact-...

Looking for cancer in the bloodstream — one patient at a time Researchers at Ghent University and CRIG explored how cell-free RNA (cfRNA) in blood plasma can reveal personalized cancer signals using large-scale computational analysis powered by VSC supercomputing. www.vscentrum.be/post/looking...

𝚁𝙴𝚂𝙴𝙰𝚁𝙲𝙷 𝚂𝙷𝙾𝚆𝙲𝙰𝚂𝙴 Less testing, better models ⚙️ Adaptive design of experiments selects the most informative tests to improve parameter identifiability while reducing total testing time. Demonstrated on gearbox power-loss modeling and enabled by VSC supercomputing. www.vscentrum.be/post/less-te...

🧠 1st place at #NeurIPS2025 EEG Challenge KU Leuven ranks #1 in NeurIPS 2025 Challenge 1 among 1000+ teams—powered by VSC Tier-1 supercomputing. Their EEG foundation model, trained on 8M+ segments, enables robust brain signal decoding across tasks and subjects. 📖 www.vscentrum.be/post/scaling...

How do you scale AI in genomics without rising costs? Researchers from the VIB Center for AI & Computational Biology and KU Leuven show that larger single-cell datasets can boost deep learning models—even with lower per-cell coverage. Powered by VSC supercomputing 🔗 www.vscentrum.be/post/evaluat...

🏎️ What does it take to build a race car as a student? UGent Racing uses supercomputing to push aerodynamics, test ideas faster, and gain a competitive edge. 🎬 Watch the VSC Success Story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtKk... #VSC #UGentRacing #HPC #Supercomputing #Engineering #CFD

🧠 Can AI help detect dementia? Using EEG brain activity + machine learning, researchers show how Alzheimer’s and frontotemporal dementia can be identified—and even distinguished. Powered by VSC supercomputing ⚡ 🔗 www.vscentrum.be/post/eeg-bas... #AI #Neuroscience #Dementia #HPC

🚀 Unlocking CFD Performance at Scale Join VSC and Infinite Simulation Systems for webinar exploring how Ansys Fluent’s native multi-GPU solver accelerates simulation performance and enables large-scale CFD workflows on HPC infrastructure. 26 March | 12:00–13:30 www.vscentrum.be/events/unloc...

🌸 Research Showcase: Magnetic nanoflowers have a hyperthermia “sweet spot.” Using VSC Tier-1 GPU clusters, researchers found that iron-oxide nanoflowers around 100–150 nm maximize heat release for cancer therapy. www.vscentrum.be/post/finding...

Registration now open KU Leuven & UHasselt researchers are invited to the HPC User Day 2026 and the inauguration of the new Tier-2 supercomputer. Discover the new hardware through trainings, user testimonials, datacenter visits, and networking with HPC experts. 🔗 www.vscentrum.be/events/ku-le...

New VSC Research Showcase: Generalized Van Cittert-Zernike Schell propagator—an efficient algorithm for simulating partially coherent light. ✔️ Up to 100× faster computation ✔️ Up to 1000× higher accuracy ✔️ Enables advanced holography and optical simulation Read → www.vscentrum.be/post/general...

Hasselt University is organizing the summer school “A First Introduction to Quantum Computing” (June 22–25, 2026). Explore the mathematical foundations of quantum computing: Designed for PhD students in mathematics and related fields Info: www.vscentrum.be/events/summe...

Training Alert Join the HPC@UAntwerp Introduction and get started with the CalcUA infrastructure at the University of Antwerp. Feb 25–26 | 9:30–13:30 Campus Middelheim Register: www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-... More trainings via VSC training sessions at: www.vscentrum.be/vsctraining

🚀 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞 🔬 STREAM-PRS is a multi-tool pipeline that computes and compares polygenic risk scores using five widely used methods. It standardizes scores, corrects for population structure, and selects the best-performing approach. Read more: www.vscentrum.be/post/stream-...

🚀 VSC Connect Blog Meet the people behind VSC through our latest blog interviews: 👥 Training & learning 🤝 User community ⚛️ Quantum computing 👉 Explore all stories: www.vscentrum.be/news More insights coming soon. #VSCConnect #HPC #Supercomputing #Research #Innovation

🔬 Research Showcase Using large-scale molecular dynamics simulations on VSC Tier-1 supercomputers, researchers quantified boron diffusivity in high-temperature molten slag, supporting more accurate silicon recycling processes. www.vscentrum.be/post/the-app...

🎥 The VSC User Day 2025 event page is now live! Watch the event report video, explore recorded presentations, download slides, and revisit lightning talks—all in one place. 👉 www.vscentrum.be/ud25 #VSCUserDay #HPC #AI #Supercomputing #ResearchCommunity

VSC Research Showcase: Standard fluconazole dosing often fails in critically ill patients. Population PK modeling identified body weight and CRRT as key drivers, leading to an optimized dosing strategy with ≥90% target attainment. 🔗 www.vscentrum.be/post/a-fluco...

🚀 Machine Learning with Python | VSC Training Learn the fundamentals of ML and AI, build pipelines with scikit-learn, and explore neural networks with Keras — all in one half-day, hands-on session. 📅 Jan 12, 2026 | 9–1 📍 Hybrid (KU Leuven / online) 🔗 www.vscentrum.be/events/machi...

🧬 How do cancer cells evolve, and become drug resistant during therapy? Researchers at VIB–KU Leuven developed SPLONGGET, a new single-cell method combining long-read sequencing with multi-omics to reveal tumor evolution and CAR-T therapy resistance. 🔗 www.vscentrum.be/post/new-met...

As the year comes to a close, we celebrate the passion, resilience, and creativity of our HPC community. Your drive to explore, innovate, and solve real-world challenges makes the VSC mission truly meaningful—here in Flanders and beyond. Happy Holidays! 🎄✨

🚀 We’re hiring! Join the HPC team at Ghent University as HPC System Administrator (Linux & Storage) and help support cutting-edge research and supercomputing in Flanders. 📍 Ghent University ⏱️ Full-time, permanent 💻 Hybrid work possible 🗓️ Apply by 31 Jan 2026 🔗 jobs.ugent.be/job/Gent-Sys...

🧬 Research Showcase 🦠 New open-access research shows how parasite species, development, and co-infections shape the microbiome of the schistosomiasis snail Biomphalaria glabrata, using 16S rRNA sequencing powered by VSC supercomputing. 🔗 Read more → www.vscentrum.be/post/schisto...

🚀 VSC + LUMI-BE Users Day starts next week A full day of high-performance computing, research impact, and user experiences. 📍 Brussels | 17 December 🔗 See the full event agenda: www.vscentrum.be/ud25

🚨 New VSC Success Story! Ancient DNA from Sint-Truiden reveals 1,000 years of ancestry, migration & community life — including evidence of 14th-century plague unseen in historical records. Powered by VSC supercomputing. 🎥 Watch: youtu.be/cciqwPZMkfk #VSC #HPC #AncientDNA #Genomics #History

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🚀 Research Showcase 🔬 VUB researchers present the first reproducible accessibility analysis of Metro 3 in Brussels. Their study reveals how the project impacts travel times, reliability, and equity across the city — powered by VSC Read here www.vscentrum.be/post/metro-3...