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Florina Ciorba

@cflorina.bsky.social
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Assoc. Prof. at University of Basel. Fascinated by #parallelism and its manifestation in #HPC and #life. hpc.dmi.unibas.ch

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DMI | University of Basel @dmi.unibas.ch · 17h
Innovation MEM’s special autumn edition: The article “Simulationen für die Radioastronomie skalierbar machen” highlights the work of Florina M. Ciorba and her High Performance Computing Group, University of Basel together with Ruben Cabezon and colleagues at sciCORE/CeDA 👉 shorturl.at/buF28
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Simulationen für die Radioastronomie skalierbar machen
Das SKAO hört mit Tausenden Antennen in den Kosmos hinein – und erzeugt dabei gewaltige Datenmengen. Forschende in Basel entwickeln mit SPHEXA Simulationen, die helfen sollen, die physikalischen Proze...
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HPC Group @ Uni Basel @dmi-hpc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The #HPC group of @dmi.unibas.ch welcomes all students joining the Foundations of Distributed Systems course (FDS) and the Reproducibility and Performance of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies seminar (RePeT) in the fall semester 2026! We wish you a good semester start! 🚀 @cflorina.bsky.social
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Lecture Foundations of Distributed Systems | Departement Mathematik und Informatik | Universität Basel
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HPC Group @ Uni Basel @dmi-hpc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Great experience at #FantasyBasel 2026. Thanks to everyone who visited us @dmi-hpc.bsky.social and the @dmi.unibas.ch to explore interactive parallel computing experiences with our microCluster: hpc.dmi.unibas.ch/research/mic... Seeing people engage hands-on was a highlight. @cflorina.bsky.social
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HPC Group @ Uni Basel @dmi-hpc.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The #HPC group of the University of Base welcomes all students joining the Operating Systems (OS) and High Performance Computing (HPC) courses in this semester! We wish you a good semester start! 🚀 @dmi.unibas.ch @cflorina.bsky.social
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HPC Group @ Uni Basel @dmi-hpc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Congratulations to Scott Barcomb for successfully completing his Master project titled "Analyzing Parallelism and Performance in PyTorch". His work sheds light on how #PyTorch hides where #parallelism happens. @dmi.unibas.ch
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HPC Group @ Uni Basel @dmi-hpc.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Excited to share that our poster, “Seamless Scaling of Applications Across Programming Models”, has been accepted as an #SC25 ACM SRC Poster. We compare coding complexity and performance of C++, Python, Julia, and DaphneDSL. Looking forward to connecting with the #HPC community. @dmi.unibas.ch
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HPC Group @ Uni Basel @dmi-hpc.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Have you ever wondered what #HPC users are really executing when they run "a.out"? Attend our paper presentation "SIREN: Software Identification and Recognition in #HPC Systems" at #SC25! 🕙 Thursday, November 20, 2025, 10:30am - 10:52am CST 🔗 Details: sc25.conference-program.com/presentation...
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HPC Group @ Uni Basel @dmi-hpc.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
DaphneDSL scales seamlessly; Julia tops performance. Come by our poster “Seamless Scaling of Applications Across Programming Models” at #SC25 in St. Louis, MO! 📍 Second Floor Atrium 🕔 Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:15–7:00 PM CST 🔗 sc25.conference-program.com/presentation...
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HPC Group @ Uni Basel @dmi-hpc.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The #HPC group of the University of Basel welcomes all students joining Foundations of Distributed Systems course (FDS) and Reproducibility and Performance of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies seminar (RePeT) in this semester! We wish you a good semester start! 🚀 @cflorina.bsky.social @unibas.ch
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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
@jonashmk.bsky.social, Ali Mohammed, Ahmed Eleliemy, @guilloteauq.bsky.social, Reto Krummenacher @dmi-hpc.bsky.social @dmi.unibas.ch @unibas.ch
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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Excited to share our new IEEE Access paper: A Comparative Study of #OpenMP #Scheduling #Algorithm #Selection Strategies We show how combining expert-based & reinforcement learning improves #HPC scheduling, cutting overheads in apps (SPHYNX, STREAM Tri), even beating “Oracle”. tinyurl.com/ExpRLOMP
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A Comparative Study of OpenMP Scheduling Algorithm Selection Strategies
Scientific and data science applications are becoming more complex, with increasingly demanding computational and memory requirements during execution. Modern high performance computing (HPC) systems ...
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Antoine Bosselut @abosselut.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The next generation of open LLMs should be inclusive, compliant, and multilingual by design. That’s why we @icepfl.bsky.social @ethz.ch @cscsch.bsky.social ) built Apertus.
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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Big congratulations Dr. Thomas Jakobsche on defending your dissertation: “Improving Transparency & Performance of HPC Systems through MODA"! 👏🎓 A great achievement in #HPC #systemsmonitoring, #observability #dataanalytics. @martinschulz.bsky.social @dmi-hpc.bsky.social @dmi.unibas.ch @unibas.ch
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HPC Group @ Uni Basel @dmi-hpc.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
@cflorina.bsky.social @martinschulzhpc.bsky.social @dmi.unibas.ch
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Verónica MV (she/ella) @verolero86.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Closing #PASC2025 a great panel discussion on Supercomputing for Sustainable Development (SD) focused on United Nations' 17 SD goals featuring Sally Ellingson, @cflorina.bsky.social, James Hetherington, and Hindumathi Palanisamy #HPC #AI
Image of closing panel at PASC 2025 with four panelists
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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Excited for our MS5A Breaking #HPC Silos for #Sustainable Development at #PASC25 today Jun 18, 9–11 am, Room 5.0A52. Co-organized w/ M-C. Sawley, M. Girone, M.-G. Giuffreda & me. Speakers: Asal Mehrabi, Hindumathi Palanisamy, Ewa Deelman & Ana Klimovic. #IDEAS4HPC #Sustainability #PASC25
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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Great turnout at our MS4F #ML Support for the Lifetime of Software minisymposium at #PASC25, co-organized with H. Menon & K. Parasyris! Thanks O. Simsek, E. Vatai, T. Islam & P. Delgado for excellent talks, and the audience for great Qs. Looking forward to ML4SW @ #PASC26! #HPC #AI #ScientificSw
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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
It sounds doable, right? Why haven’t we done this already? Thanks @mggiuffreda.bsky.social for the post.
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Joana Pereira @joanampereira.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
If you are at PASC25 this year, go listen to Reto talk about his master thesis work on rescaling GCsnap2. It was awesome to have Reto with us last year and collaborate so close with the @cflorina.bsky.social and @dmi-hpc.bsky.social to make our tool even more useful!
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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
#PASC25 kicks off today in Brugg-Windisch! Excited to speak at the MS1G minisymposium (Room 5.2D11) at 11:50 on “Performance & Portability for Sustainable Simulations” with #SPHEXA. Let's discuss #HPC, #portability #sustainability in #ScientificComputing. #UniBasel
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HPC Group @ Uni Basel @dmi-hpc.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
DMI-HPC is ready for FANTASY Basel and showcase parallelism with μ-Cluster! 📍Find us at Booth number 307 in Hall 1.2, Messe Basel 📅 May 29-31, 2025 🤝 Meet students from @dmi.unibas.ch, experience live demos, and dive into the world of #ComputerScience
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HPC Group @ Uni Basel @dmi-hpc.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
We're excited to share our paper on "An Autonomy Loop for Dynamic HPC Job Time Limit Adjustment", accepted at the 31st International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par) 2025. A preprint is available on arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.05927 #HPC @cflorina.bsky.social
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An Autonomy Loop for Dynamic HPC Job Time Limit Adjustment
High Performance Computing (HPC) systems rely on fixed user-provided estimates of job time limits. These estimates are often inaccurate, resulting in inefficient resource use and the loss of unsaved w...
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HPC Group @ Uni Basel @dmi-hpc.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
🚀 Excited to share that our paper "Scalable Genomic Context Analysis with GCsnap2 on HPC Clusters" has been accepted at PASC25: pasc25.pasc-conference.org! 📄 Check out the preprint on arXiv: doi.org/10.48550/arX... @joanampereira.bsky.social @cflorina.bsky.social @dmi.unibas.ch
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The PASC 2025 Conference
The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS).
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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Great day at #SKAO Council Swiss Science Day in Zurich! Honored to present SPH-EXA entire team’s work with Lucio Mayer & Ruben Cabezon, showcasing advances in #HPC, #SPHEXA, & #EuroHPC for astrophysical simulations. Thanks #SKACH for an inspiring event! #Astrophysics #Cosmology #HPC #Science
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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
A very motivated high school pupil joined our @dmi-hpc.bsky.social team for a few short weeks. Under Reto Krummenacher's supervision, he thrived and used #parallelprogramming and #hpc and to gain #performance! Congratulations Oleh! Thanks Reto! 👏
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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Thank you @NicolásErdödy for the invitation to #MulticoreWorld in NZ! Your dedication to bring together the NZ #HPC, #AI & #DataScience communities with the world is inspiring. You deserve recognition for your meaningful work—like Listen2theLand. Thanks for the hospitality! See you later/Mā te wā!
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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Grazing sheep, #BlueSky @bsky.app (pun intended), #Akaroa beach and harbor…
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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Mount Cook (Southern Alps), Tasman glacier lake … stunning 🤩
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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Did you know? 🇳🇿 New Zealand is 2/3 the size of France but has about half the population of Switzerland! It’s home to ~200 glaciers, 5x more sheep than people, and stunning landscapes like #Akaroa an old volcanic crater turned harbor. Absolutely mesmerizing. #NewZealand #Nature #Nature
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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
NZ did not disappoint in amazing sky views and inspiring outdoor art.
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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
#Sumner beach, #TaylorsMistake and #Lyttelton harbor just outside of #Christchurch.
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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
First time in New Zealand 🇳🇿—what an incredible experience! A land of breathtaking beauty, conserved nature, and a rich culture. From the majestic Southern Alps to turquoise lakes, volcanic harbors, and the tiniest (and rarest) Hector’s dolphins, NZ is truly unique. #NewZealand #Travel #Discovery
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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
At #MulticoreWorld 2025 I explored the balance of Performance ⚖️ Portability ⚖️ Productivity—no one-size-fits-all, no free lunch! Investing in #PerformanceEngineering is key. #OpenMP scheduling #SPHEXA hydrodynamics #DAPHNE: #HPC + #AI pipelines Proud of our @dmi-hpc.bsky.social team & partners!
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HPC Group @ Uni Basel @dmi-hpc.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The HPC group of @unibas.ch welcomes all students joining our High Performance Computing (HPC) and Operating Systems (OS) courses this spring semester! We are excited to meet you all. Get ready for some high performance learning! #HPC #OS @unibas.ch
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Sunita Chandrasekaran @sunitachandra.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
When researchers from 🇯🇵 🇮🇳 🇺🇸 🇩🇿 🇺🇦 🇷🇴 🇧🇷 🇬🇧 🇯🇲 🇳🇿 et. al meet - #SCIENCE #HPC #AI happens 🥰😇 Thank you #MulticoreWorld Nicolás Erdödy for bringing us all together! Such a gathering where 🧠s from diff. countries meet & brainstorm scientific solutions - matters! @cflorina.bsky.social @hpcnotes.bsky.social
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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Thank you Kristina! That’s such a cool angle 😊 you have a unique eye for taking photos. 👏
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DMI | University of Basel @dmi.unibas.ch · 06/02/2025
We are pleased to announce that the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Basel is now on Bluesky. We look forward to sharing insights into our research in computer science and mathematics, as well as updates from our department. Let’s connect!
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Sunita Chandrasekaran @sunitachandra.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Our 1st #RSE ☕️ hr #UDEL @udelaware.bsky.social Almost a dream come true 😇 Been wishing to form such #RSE focused groups for a while now. Thanks to #NSF's new grant, we were able to bring students from diff. disciplines under 1 roof! More such activities to follow! NSF DARSE sites.udel.edu/darse/
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HPC Group @ Uni Basel @dmi-hpc.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Congratulations to Sascha Maibach on completing his BSc thesis: Verification and Validation of the OpenMP Standard Functionality with Focus on Scheduling Clauses! Shedding light on the challenges of testing OpenMP scheduling and how to validate its functionalities. #HPC #OpenMP #ParallelComputing
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Torsten Schwede @torstenschwede.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
📣 As of January 2025, researchers in Switzerland can participate in (almost all) calls for proposals of Horizon Europe and the Digital Europe Programme. This means that they can submit project proposals in the role of coordinator. 🧪🧬🔬🔭 www.horizon-europe.ch #HorizonEurope #Science #Innovation
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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Just in time for the winter holidays 😊 Thanks @etp4hpc.bsky.social 👏
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University of Basel @unibas.ch · 05/12/2024
Some people seem to be able to eat whatever they like and still stay slim. Others just have to look at a hearty meal and they gain weight. What’s behind this?
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Is there such a thing as a good or bad metabolism?
Some people seem to be able to eat whatever they like and still stay slim. Others just have to look at a hearty meal and they gain weight. What’s behind this? And can specific preparations actually “s...
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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Turbulence doesn’t discriminate between light and dark. But I can imagine some form of cocooning effect with darker cabins might be calming to people nervous of flying.
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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Choice or no choice?
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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I just recommended your book today to Computational Science students in class. 👍
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HPC Group @ Uni Basel @dmi-hpc.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Arbër Hyseni successfully completed his master project on “Scheduling of Integrated Data Analysis Pipelines on heterogeneous (CPU-GPU) machines with DAPHNE”, in which he investigated how to boost #DAPHNE’s performance on #GPUs. Congratulations Arbër! 👏 @cflorina.bsky.social @guilloteauq.bsky.social
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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Thank you for the shout out @underfox3.bsky.social. Thomas Jakobsche - the lead author and my soon to graduate PhD student will be happy to learn about it. @dmi-hpc.bsky.social #HPC #Security @unibasel.bsky.social
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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Please also add @ivonabrand.bsky.social who works on digital twins and computational sustainability.
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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Please also add @denisa-c.bsky.social who works on sustainable and eco-computing of SKA workloads (and more!).
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