Upcoming and past events

Upcoming and past events will be posted here.

High-Performance Computing in Sciences

This seminar series will focus on computing, numerics, software development, and their applications across scientific disciplines. Our goal is to invite leading experts from both academia and industry to give talks a few times each semester. Seminars are live streamed through Zoom.

Next seminar

• New HPC seminars for the Spring 2026 will be announced soon!

Past seminars

• “C++ Destructors and RAII” by Ville Voutilainen from the Qt Group
  • Friday, December 12 at 15:15-16
  • Ville Voutilainen is a Principal Software Engineer working at The Qt Company, and has been programming in C++ as a hobby since 1994 and professionally since 1998. He has been a member of the ISO C++ Standards Committee since 2009, and has authored and implemented various standard proposals over the years.
  • The talk explains how and why destructors are fundamental and idiomatic, and what RAII is and how and why RAII is also fundamental and idiomatic. The talk covers resource management with the use of destructors and RAII, and also covers cases that are not resource management.
• “State-of-the-Art Communication Software for Supercomputers and Its Applications” by Jeff Hammond from NVIDIA
  • Friday, October 31 at 15:15-16
  • jeffhammond.github.io
  • I will talk about high-performance communication software for GPU supercomputers. I will explain NCCL and NVSHMEM, including their historical context from MPI and SHMEM. The functionality and performance will be demonstrated through an example from linear algebra.  Real world results from both scientific and commercial AI use cases will be described.

Centre of Excellence Coordination meetings

Upcoming

• 2026, April: Centre of Excellence kick-off meeting

Past events

• 2025, Nov 14: First organizational meeting in University of Turku