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8 articles · Latest November 6, 2025

Netherlands eScience Center·Nov 6, 2025

From PhD Student to Auto-Tuning GPU Expert. Meet Floris-Jan.

Floris-Jan Willemsen has been a PhD student at the Netherlands eScience Center since 2021, working on auto-tuning GPU software as part of the CORTEX project under the supervision o...

Reggie Cushing·Mar 26, 2024

The Dystopian Mirage: Blogging’s Descent with My Involvement

The Dystopian Mirage: Blogging’s Descent with My Involvement Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash Within the tumultuous realm of digital content creation, bloggers are confronted wit...

Alessio Sclocco·Jan 16, 2024

Talking about energy-efficient GPU computing at SC23

1 November is the time for Supercomputing, or SC as it is called nowadays, and in 2023 the largest High-Performance Computing (HPC) conference in the world took place in Denver, US...

Peter Kalverla·Nov 21, 2023

Cracking the (moisture) tracking code

An exclusive interview with our project partners This post is part of a series on our 2021 Small Scale Initiative Call in Software Performance Optimization. This week’s highlight:...

eScience Editorial Team·Mar 2, 2023

Minds for Mobile Agents: speeding up social distancing simulations

This blog post is written by University of Amsterdam researchers Charlotte Tanis and Andrew Heathcote, who participated in the Small-Scale Initiative for Software Performance Optim...

Stef Smeets·May 4, 2022

Forget about Jupyter Notebooks — showcase your research using Dashboards

The snippet below generates some data (a normal distribution), fits it, and creates a matplotlib plot out of it. It takes three parameters, muin, stdin, and size. My cool python sc...

Ben van Werkhoven·Nov 25, 2021

Kernel Tuner tutorial at Supercomputing 2021

A view of St. Louis from the Gateway Arch. Photo by Floris-Jan Willemsen. November 2021 — Together with my colleagues, Alessio Sclocco, Stijn Heldens, and Floris-Jan Willemsen, we...

Jurriaan H. Spaaks·Dec 11, 2018

the research software directory and how it promotes software citation

Improve the findability, citability, and reproducibility of research software By Jurriaan H. Spaaks, Stefan Verhoeven, Tom Klaver, Jason Maassen, (Netherlands eScience Center) and...