The HPC Core Facility CalcUA started in 2006, 20 years ago. Time to celebrate!
Our first CalcUA cluster Babbage was officially launched in March 2005: 256 nodes in 8 racks with a whopping 2.5 TFlop/s peak performance! The clusters Turing, Hopper, Leibniz and Vaughan followed.
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One year after the launch of the core facility in 2006, we started, with all Flemish universities, the "preparatory trajectory" of the Flemish Supercomputer Centre.
We will look back at how it all started, but it’s also a great opportunity to look ahead and discover what the future holds.
Date
12 May 2026
Location
University of Antwerp - Stadscampus
Klooster van de Grauwzusters
Lange Sint-Annastraat 7
2000 Antwerpen
Program
13:30 | Opening |
13:35 | From Exascale Onward: Building JUPITER, and Entering the Post-Exascale Era (Andreas Herten) |
14:25 | Once upon a time (Dirk Van Dyck) |
14:35 | Language Models: half a century of "The Bitter Lesson" (Walter Daelemans) |
15:00 | Coffee break |
15:30 | Scaling biology with supercomputers: 20 years of omics (Kris Laukens) |
15:55 | 100 years of atomistic simulations of liquids (Jelle Vekeman) |
16:20 | A New Hope: how CalcUA empowered two decades of public health modelling (Lander Willem) |
16:45 | Closing |
17:00 | Reception |