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Just a year ago, having a panel on the impact of the geopolitical situation on science would be unimaginable. Today there was one at @SURF Research Day.

Alessio Sclocco May 1

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Assn for Computing Machinery May 1

🏆 MPICH Team – ACM Software System Award
William Gropp, Pavan Balaji, Rajeev Thakur, Yanfei Guo, Kenneth Raffenetti & Hui Zhou
For MPICH, which has powered 30 years of progress in computational science and engineering by providing scalable, robust, and portable communication software for parallel computers.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4lTs4mK

William Gropp, University of Illinois; Pavan Balaji, Meta; Rajeev Thakur, Yanfei Guo, Kenneth Raffenetti, and Hui Zhou (all of Argonne National Laboratory), receive the ACM Software System Award for MPICH

William Gropp, University of Illinois; Pavan Balaji, Meta; Rajeev Thakur, Yanfei Guo, Kenneth Raffenetti, and Hui Zhou (all of Argonne National Laboratory), receive the ACM Software System Award for MPICH, which has powered 30 years of progress in computational science and engineering by providing scalable, robust, and portable communication software for parallel computers. The ACM Software System Award is presented to an institution or individual(s) recognized for developing a software system that has had a lasting influence, reflected in contributions to concepts, in commercial acceptance, or both. The Software System Award carries a prize of $35,000. Financial support for the Software System Award is provided by IBM.

Alessio Sclocco Apr 18

Doug Bostrom Apr 17

Ars Technica only rarely resorts to op-eds. When it does, tends to be powerful.

"This is not a breeze; this is the whirlwind. And it will leave a state-dependent, nationalist university system in its wake unless academia arises, feels its own power, and non-violently resists."

As is remarked therein, failure to organize will likely be fatal. As with labor vs. management, organization wins to the extent it's not countered with other organization.

#ClimateOfFear

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/04/resist-eggheads-universities-are-not-as-weak-as-they-have-chosen-to-be/

Resist, eggheads! Universities are not as weak as they have chosen to be.

Opinion: It’s time for public resistance.

Ars Technica

Alessio Sclocco Apr 17

CopernicusECMWF Apr 17

Glaciers in all European regions saw a net loss of ice in 2024. Record rates of mass losses in Scandinavia and Svalbard, likely due to warmer-than-average summer temperatures. European Alps among fastest-receding globally. More details in the #ESOTC2024 report https://bit.ly/4jwWxoX

6. Snow and glaciers | Copernicus

Alessio Sclocco Apr 12

Prof Heino Falcke Apr 11

Just got this news on the #NASA budget proposal by the president. #Astrophysics gets hit by a sledgehammer.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/trump-white-house-budget-proposal-eviscerates-science-funding-at-nasa/

#Astrodon #Astronomy

* ~50 percent cut in funding. After the agency received $7.5 billion
for science in fiscal-year 2025, the Trump administration has proposed a
science topline budget of just $3.9 billion for the coming fiscal year.

* A two-thirds cut to astrophysics, down to $487 million; (1/3)

Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA

“This would decimate American leadership in space.”…

Ars Technica

Alessio Sclocco Apr 12

OpenMP ARB Apr 11

🚀 Explore the latest OpenMP 6.0 webinar by POP!

Learn about the strategic roadmap, enhanced base language support (C23, C++23, FORTRAN), innovative tasking (free-agent threads, taskgraphs, iteration concepts), advanced loop transformations (user-defined inductions), threadsets, transparent tasks, and new device offloading features.

▶️ Watch here: https://youtu.be/YTbPPhOjO58
📥 Slides: https://bit.ly/3OpnMP6

#HPC #OpenMP

OpenMP 6.0 Part 1: New Host-side Features and Enhancements

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Alessio Sclocco Apr 10

Joseph Cox Apr 10

New from 404 Media: Facebook has deliberately pushed its Llama 4 AI model to the right in an attempt to show "both sides." Obviously that is dangerous/stupid if the AI is talking about climate change, health etc which are scientific fact but clouded by politics https://www.404media.co/facebook-pushes-its-llama-4-ai-model-to-the-right-wants-to-present-both-sides/

Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”

Meta’s Llama 4 model is worried about left leaning bias in the data, and wants to be more like Elon Musk’s Grok.

404 Media

Alessio Sclocco Apr 9

Bellingcat Apr 9

On March 23, a convoy of aid workers, traveling in vehicles marked with emergency flashing lights, was struck by gunfire in Gaza. Bellingcat used the video footage of the incident to perform an audio analysis of the shooting. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/04/09/gaza-palestine-israel-killed-death-aid-workers-international-red-cross-crescent-audio-analysis/?utm_source=mastodon

What Audio Analysis Reveals About Aid Workers Killed in Gaza - bellingcat

Hundreds of shots fired at aid convoy that resulted in deaths of multiple aid workers, audio analysis shows.

bellingcat

Alessio Sclocco Apr 9

Melanie Imming ✅Apr 8

NWO ensures that there is still 19m for this year, but next year the #openscience NL programme will be less ambitious

https://www.openscience.nl/nieuws/regering-bezuinigt-definitief-op-open-science

Regering bezuinigt definitief op open science | Open Science NL

Op 8 april heeft de Eerste Kamer ingestemd met de begroting van het ministerie van OCW. Daarmee is de halvering van de financiering voor Open Science NL definitief. NWO repareert tijdelijk een deel van de bezuinigingen.

Open Science NL

Alessio Sclocco Apr 8

Last week we released version 1.1 of Kernel Tuner, out Python tool for performance, and energy-efficiency, tuning of GPU applications.

https://github.com/KernelTuner/kernel_tuner/releases/tag/1.1.0

#GPU #HPC #KernelTuner #Autotuning

Release Version 1.1.0 · KernelTuner/kernel_tuner

This release integrates many smaller changes that have been made over the past year. The most significant new features are: The NCUObserver to include performance metrics from the Nvidia Profiler ...

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