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Use case: Simulating the invisible - how supercomputing advances black hole research

🌌How do you study something you can’t see? Black holes emit no light—but the plasma around them does. Using supercomputers like LUMI, researchers simulate turbulent, magnetised plasma to reveal the extreme physics behind black‑hole flares.

🔗Read the use case: lumi-supercomputer.eu/black-hole-r...

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👨‍🎓🧑‍🎓Brazil’s academic diplomas turn digital

#Brazil 🇧🇷 has made all academic diplomas digital, using a blockchain-based system developed with support from the #NREN of Brazil, RNP, to issue, validate, and preserve credentials.

🔗 https://ow.ly/lbA450YkzmL #DigitalCredentials #EdTech #HigherEducation

🌲The #NREN of #Finland 🇫🇮 CSCfi has developed a carbon footprint model for digital services, showing hardware manufacturing dominates emissions and guiding more sustainable data storage.

🔗 Read the full story https://ow.ly/obiV50YitFJ #ClimateImpact #DigitalCarbonFootprint #SustainableTech

Using #DeiC’s Interactive #HPC, #researchers at Copenhagen Business School analysed millions of patents to show how even small mismatches in scope and description can hinder innovation.

Read more https://ow.ly/367w50Yc2w8

#HighPerformanceComputing #PatentData #InnovationInsights 📸 Jakob Boserup

CENIC | AI-Enabled Fiber-Optic Geodesy: CENIC Networking and Services Enable Cutting-Edge Seismology Using Caltech's Zhan Group of Observational Seismology as an example, you can learn how CENIC members and CENIC AIR participants have much of what they need to carry out cutting-edge AI-enabled vulcan...

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Microscopic imperfections in fiber-optic cables have been transformed into millions of networked individual seismometers, and scientific equipment at their endpoints can sense tiny movements of the Earth’s crust.

One result: predicting volcanic activity!

cenic.org/blog/ai-enab...

NTRO is using #Globus via the #NREN of #Australia 🇦🇺 AARNet to move and analyse large #RoadSurvey datasets in near real time, helping improve safety and efficiency across transport networks.

Read more: https://ow.ly/4NkC50Y94Jg

#BigData #DataTransfer #RoadSafety #TransportTech

News: 22 Czech research projects awarded resources on LUMI

In the latest @it4innovations.bsky.social Open Access Grant round, 22 teams from Czech institutions gained access to LUMI. Projects span biomedicine, AI, smart cities, sustainable energy & particle physics – including CERN support.
🔗Read more: lumi-supercomputer.eu/czech-resear...

#eurohpc #hpc #ai

Building Finland’s digital memory – 10 years of digital preservation - CSC Finland’s national Digital Preservation Services have safeguarded the country’s cultural heritage and research data for 10 years. Read more.

🇫🇮 Cultural heritage is a cornerstone of Finnish identity and well-being.

Finland safeguards cultural heritage and research data for future generations through unique national Digital Preservation Services. Half a billion files already preserved!

Learn more 🔗 csc.fi/en/news/buil...

@dpres.fi

The #NREN of #Finland 🇫🇮 CSCfi is helping power Opin.fi to bring open courses from 29 Finnish higher education institutions into one place, making lifelong learning easier to find and access.

🔗 https://ow.ly/6ZXH50XLLJi

#FinnishEducation #OpinFi #EducationInnovation

🌍 Digital twins are transforming biodiversity science.

BioDT project, coordinated by CSC, combined advanced modelling, open data, and supercomputing to help Europe respond faster to biodiversity and climate challenges.

Read more 🔗 csc.fi/en/news/digi...

At #SC25 in November, UVic & SFU research teams achieved the first Tbps #DataTransfer from a Canadian 🇨🇦 university, enabled by Canada #NRENs #BCNET & #CANARIE, and USA NREN #Internet2 providing the network path.

🔗 https://ow.ly/wBCZ50XHbPK

#ResearchNetworking #ResearchInfrastructure

Brazilian Hospital Services Company Ebserh and the #NREN of #Brazil 🇧🇷 #RNP have improved electronic patient records and key digital services for 45 federal university hospitals, supporting care for 27M patients.

🔗 https://ow.ly/AzjN50XCfsB #DigitalHealth #RedCLARA

Through a grant from #Kenya 🇰🇪 #NREN #KENET, researchers at the University of Nairobi are developing a fast and cheap method of screening agricultural products for pesticides, producing immediate results with no damage to products.

🔗 https://ow.ly/TcGH50XAq99

#FoodSafety

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#NREN of #Chile 🇨🇱 #REUNA, member of #RedCLARA, has opened a new PoP in Punta Arenas, pushing connectivity in Chile over 1300km closer to #Antarctica and boosting global research access.

🔗 https://ow.ly/I9zA50XxRqf

#GlobalResearch #ScientificCollaboration #ResearchNetworks

CENIC | The Big Game Is Big Data: How CENIC and the California Research and Education Network Support Member Athletics When Fresno State needed to connect to Pac-12 Enterprises to broadcast a live football game over CBS, the Chancellor's Office reached out to CENIC for what Pac-12 layer called the smoothest turn-up th...

When Fresno State needed to connect to Pac-12 Enterprises to broadcast a live football game over CBS, the Chancellor's Office reached out to CENIC for what Pac-12 layer called the smoothest turn-up they've ever experienced.

cenic.org/blog/the-big...

📈 #SUBMERSE is transforming submarine fibre-optic networks into real-time scientific sensors, with support from #NRENs #NORDUnet, #Sikt 🇳🇴 + #DeiC 🇩🇰. The project also tackles the challenge of managing huge, sensitive datasets.

🔗 https://ow.ly/VYjh50XtPUs

#ResearchInfrastructure #EarthObservation

Celebrating 21 years of #eduroam in Australia! 🎉🇦🇺

Since 2004, AARNet has helped deliver secure, global Wi-Fi roaming for students, researchers and staff across the country — and around the world.

Read more https://www.aarnet.edu.au/21-years-of-eduroam-in-australia

#love2eduroam #educationroaming

News: EuroHPC JU and GÉANT to hyperconnect European supercomputers, including LUMI

@eurohpc-ju.bsky.social has signed an agreement with GÉANT – this partnership will provide European supercomputers, including LUMI, with an ultra-fast, secure, continent-wide data communication infrastructure.⚡️

Read more: www.lumi-supercomputer.eu/hyperconnect...
#hpc

❄️ Seven collaborative projects conducting data-intensive research on the LUMI supercomputer, involving researchers from Finland and Colorado and from Finland and Japan, finished in September 2025.

👉 Read this article on the projects: www.lumi-supercomputer.eu/seven-collab...
#hpc

Europe takes a major step in research connectivity! A new terabit network will link supercomputers across the continent, including EuroHPC’s @lumi-supercomputer.eu located in CSC’s data center in Kajaani 🚀

🔗 csc.fi/en/news/tera...

⚕️African #NREN WACREN + partners have launched #COPPHA, a coalition advancing #DiamondOA publishing — free for authors & readers — to boost African public health research visibility.

🔗 https://ow.ly/Rmis50XpKoh

#OpenAccess #PublicHealthAfrica

Lightning speed for Singapore’s cancer research - In The Field In a joint project, Cancer Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore), the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC), and SingAREN, the national research and education network (NREN), has taken genomic cancer...

🚀 A collaboration between CSI Singapore, NSCC & #NREN of #Singapore 🇸🇬 #SingAREN is speeding up cancer genomics — transferring petabytes of data from the US up to 10× faster via SingAREN’s high-speed network.

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#research #genomics #cancerresearch

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Analyzing the Danish labor market with supercomputing - In The Field A few years ago, Rentian Zhu, PhD fellow at the Department of Economics, Copenhagen Business School (CBS) got a bright idea. He wanted to use job postings as a source of societal information.

🔎 #Researchers at Copenhagen Business School used #supercomputing resources from #DeiC NREN of Denmark 🇩🇰 to analyse over 3 million job postings and study how changing skill demands relate to firm performance.

🔗 ow.ly/bMVW50Xhg3M

#Innovation #DataScience #AI #HPC

Seismic shockwaves reach 300 km into space - In The Field For the first time, researchers have mapped in 3D how an earthquake disturbs the ionosphere. The study was conducted by researchers from Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Te...

✨Seismic shockwaves reach 300 km into space

An international #research team from #NREN of #Japan 🇯🇵 #NICT & partners has mapped how ionospheric electron density fluctuations evolved following an earthquake.

🔗 ow.ly/V4Ms50XeIKt #SpaceWeather #EarthquakeResearch

Australia’s breakthrough quantum-secure link protects data using the… This technology promises to future-proof critical data against tomorrow’s cyber threats.

#MediaRelease: Australian technology has delivered a live quantum-secure link, a breakthrough that promises to future-proof critical data against tomorrow’s cyber threats. The project brings together QuintessenceLabs, #CSIRO, and #AARNet.

🔗 ow.ly/AV0g50Xc8o1 #Quantum

Collaboration and compute power meet on LUMI! 💪 Together with AMD Silo AI, KTH, and CSC, we’re advancing quantum chemistry for drug discovery and materials development. Learn more in AMD’s blog:
www.amd.com/en/blogs/202...

The power of music: Ligeti Center marries music and tech - In The Field Discover how Hamburg’s Ligeti Center, with support from DFN, blends music, technology, and healthcare to create healing soundscapes and networked performances.

🎶 The Ligeti Center in Hamburg is bringing together music, science, healthcare, and IT to turn #research into real-world benefits, backed by the high-speed X-WiN network from #DFN, the #NREN of #Germany 🇩🇪

🔗 ow.ly/ZzZb50X8SSX

#MusicTech #DigitalHealth #Innovation