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Accelerating Medical Innovation: How VSC Supercomputers Are Helping Diagnose Rare Disorders
High-performance computing (HPC) has long been a cornerstone of scientific discovery, and its impact on medicine continues to grow. At...
Jan 212 min read

Investigating screw agitator speed ratio impact on feeding performance using DEM
By: Luz Nadiezda Naranjo Gómez, Kensaku Matsunami, Paul Van Liedekerke, Thomas De Beer & Ashish Kumar In the continuous manufacturing of...
Oct 7, 20243 min read


Microbiomes Associated with Surfaces of Northern Argentinian Fruits Show a Wide Species Diversity
BY: Louise Vermote, Marko Verce, Fernanda Mozzi, Luc De Vuyst and Stefan Weckx The Research Group of Industrial Microbiology and Food...
Mar 27, 20232 min read


From saving lives in vehicular accidents to protecting materials under stress: Crumple zones matter
By: Sven M.J. Rogge, Sander Borgmans, Veronique Van Speybroeck Crumple zones form a critical safety measure to protect passengers during...
Mar 21, 20233 min read


Solving Born-Oppenheimer using group-equivariant deep learning
By Sander Vandenhaute, Mieke De Schepper, Veronique Van Speybroeck Quantum mechanics allows us to understand and predict the properties...
Mar 9, 20233 min read


Dynamic formation of multi-threaded prominences in arcade configurations
By: V. Jerčić and R. Keppens Prominences are impressive, large-scale structures in the Sun’s corona (the uppermost layer of the Sun’s...
Feb 13, 20232 min read


Keeping Track of Changes & Progress Thanks to the VSC AlphaFold Community
An interview with Sébastien Lemal, Data Scientist at IPA Therapeutics [1] and user of AlphaFold Predicting the tertiary structure of...
Nov 18, 20223 min read


A Cellular Hierarchy in Melanoma Uncouples Growth and Metastasis
By: Panagiotis Karras, Ignacio Bordeu, Joanna Pozniak, Ada Nowosad, Cecilia Pazzi, Nina Van Raemdonck, Ewout Landeloos, Yannick Van...
Sep 28, 20223 min read


Towards Expanding Conceptual Density Functional Theory to Include New External Perturbations:
Extreme Pressure Polarizable Continuum Model Applied to Atoms By: J. Eeckhoudt, T. Bettens, P. Geerlings,R. Cammi, B. Chen, M. Alonsoa ...
Sep 16, 20223 min read


Leveraging plant physiological dynamics using physical reservoir computing
By: Olivier Pieters, Tom De Swaef, Michiel Stock & Francis wyffels We from UGent-imec IDLab-AIRO, ILVO-Plant and UGent-KERMIT recently...
Sep 13, 20222 min read


Resolving the solar prominence/filament paradox using the magnetic Rayleigh–Taylor instability
By Dr. Jack M. Jenkins & Prof. Dr. Rony Keppens Lab information Prof. Dr. Rony Keppens and I are a part of the Center for mathematical...
Jul 12, 20223 min read


Integrated multi-omics reveal polycomb repressive complex 2 restricts human trophoblast induction
By Irene Talon · Ph.D. Student at KU Leuven, see authors The Laboratory of Cellular Reprogramming and Epigenetic Regulation (Prof....
Jun 23, 20224 min read
Welcome to the latest news and events page for the Flemish Supercomputer Center. This page serves as the go-to source for all announcements, updates, and news related to the center. Whether you are a researcher, a student, or simply interested in the latest developments in high-performance computing, you will find valuable information here.

Flanders Invests in a New Supercomputer to Accelerate Research and Innovation
The Flemish government has announced an investment of €8.6 million for the acquisition of a new Tier-1 supercomputer , reinforcing...


Accelerating Medical Innovation: How VSC Supercomputers Are Helping Diagnose Rare Disorders
High-performance computing (HPC) has long been a cornerstone of scientific discovery, and its impact on medicine continues to grow. At...


🔒 Quantum-Proof Your Future: Access the Webinar Recordings Now!
📢 VSC Announces Recorded Presentations from the Webinar: Safeguarding Communications and Data in the Quantum Computing Age Missed the...


Accelerating Rare Disease Diagnosis: A Breakthrough with VSC Computational Power
Researchers from the Center for Human Genetics (CME) in Leuven have unveiled a revolutionary diagnostic method that combines genetic and...


UD 24 – Recorded Presentations & Lightning Talks are Now Available!
We are pleased to announce that the VSC Users Day 2024 event page has been updated with all recorded presentations, lightning talks, and...
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