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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.
Single-cell transcriptome atlas of male mouse pituitary across postnatal life highlighting its stem cell landscape
By: Silke De Vriendt, Emma Laporte, Berkehür Abaylı, Julie Hoekx, Florian Hermans, Diether Lambrechts, and Hugo Vankelecom The pituitary...
Mar 42 min read
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
Detecting imagined speech events from brain signals
By: Aurélie de Borman, Benjamin Wittevrongel, Ine Dauwe, Evelien Carrette, Alfred Meurs, Dirk Van Roost, Paul Boon & Marc M. Van Hulle...
Nov 20, 20243 min read
Stable Boundary Layers with Subsidence: Scaling and Similarity of the Steady State
By: Thijs Bon, Raúl Bayoán Cal & Johan Meyers One of the key challenges in atmospheric and environmental sciences is understanding of the...
Oct 21, 20243 min read
Direct probing of low-energy intra d-band transitions in gas-phase cobalt clusters
By: Kevin A. Kaw, Rick J. Louwerse, Joost M. Bakker, Peter Lievens, Ewald Janssens & Piero Ferrari In the interstellar medium, many...
Jul 3, 20242 min read
CHIT1 at diagnosis predicts faster disability progression and reflects early microglial activation in multiple sclerosis
By: Jarne Beliën, Stijn Swinnen, Robbe D'hondt, Laia Verdú de Juan, Nina Dedoncker Patrick Matthys, Jan Bauer, Celine Vens, Sinéad...
Jun 25, 20243 min read
Benchmarking of methods for DNA methylome deconvolution
By: Kobe De Ridder, Huiwen Che, Kaat Leroy & Bernard Thienpont Quantifying the cell types that contribute to tissue samples is important...
Jun 4, 20242 min read
Prime editing allows tackling Cystic Fibrosis at its genetic roots
By: Mattijs Bulcaen, Marianne Carlon A multidisciplinary team with researchers from KU Leuven (Flanders), Université Paris Cité (France),...
May 22, 20242 min read
Joint multi-ancestry and admixed GWAS reveals the complex genetics behind human cranial vault shape
By: Seppe Goovaerts, Hanne Hoskens, Ryan J. Eller, Noah Herrick, Anthony M. Musolf, Cristina M. Justice, Meng Yuan, Sahin Naqvi, Myoung...
Apr 30, 20243 min read
ForestTemp – Sub-canopy microclimate temperatures of European forests
By: Stef Haesen and Koenraad Van Meerbeek Ecological research continues to rely on coarse-gridded macroclimatic data, which depend on...
Mar 19, 20242 min read
Tier-1 Compute, past, present, and future
Decommissioning of BrENIAC: A Look Back at its Impact The Tier-1 platform of the Vlaams Supercomputer Center (VSC) has three components,...
Feb 26, 20243 min read
Mapping Cell Composition of Metastatic Melanoma To Identify Cause of Immunotherapy Resistance
By: Joanna Pozniak, Dennis Pedri, Ewout Landeloos, Yannick Van Herck, Asier Antoranz, Lukas Vanwynsberghe, Ada Nowosad, Niccolò Roda,...
Jan 24, 20242 min read
ForestClim—Bioclimatic variables for microclimate temperatures of European forests
By: Stef Haesen and Koenraad Van Meerbeek Bioclimatic variables play a pivotal role in various scientific disciplines, spanning from...
Dec 11, 20232 min read
Microclimate reveals the true thermal niche of forest plant species
By: Stef Haesen and Koenraad Van Meerbeek Species distribution models have become the go-to tool for forecasting how changes in...
Oct 20, 20232 min read
A solid-liquid mixing reactor based on swirling flow technology
By: Zhu Yang, Thomas Holemans and Maarten Vanierschot Solid-liquid mixing is a critical process in the chemical industry and is widely...
Oct 9, 20233 min read
The Role of Plasma β in Global Coronal Models: Bringing Balance back to the Force
by Michaela Brchnelova, Błażej Kuźma, Fan Zhang, Andrea Lani and Stefaan Poedts Space weather has been increasingly more and more...
Sep 6, 20232 min read
Tier-1 Data Launch Event
More and more VSC users have computational tasks that depend on large datasets. To support and enable data management, a central place to...
Apr 28, 20231 min read
The Impact of Electron Phonon Scattering
The Impact of Electron Phonon Scattering, Finite Size and Lateral Electric Field on Transport Properties of Topological Insulators: A...
Apr 17, 20232 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
An embedded interfacial network stabilizes inorganic CsPbI3 perovskite thin films
By: Julian A. Steele, Tom Braeckevelt, Vittal Prakasam, Giedrius Degutis, Haifeng Yuan, Handong Jin, Eduardo Solano, Pascal Puech, Shreya...
Dec 14, 20223 min read
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