Event Archive

Complete history of Exa-MA events and activities.

This page contains archives of past events, organized chronologically by year. For current and upcoming events, visit the News and Events page.

2026

Feb 18-19, 2026

AMD and NumPEx Technical Meeting – Saclay
Two-day coordination meeting between AMD and NumPEx focused on technical exchanges. Exa-MA (PC1) contributes a presentation of the project and its objectives, and outlines three potential collaboration/pilot tracks with AMD developers across WP1, WP3, and WP5.

Feb 02-05, 2026

Trans-Numériques 2026 – Couvent des Jacobins, Rennes
First edition bringing together France’s academic community around digital continuum challenges. NumPEx was represented with presentations on performance, sustainability, and HPC. Exa-MA participants included project coordinators and WP leaders. Presentation slides are now available.
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Jan 21, 2026

Daria Hrebenshchykova appointed Exa-MA YoungPEx representative
At the 2026 General Assembly, Daria Hrebenshchykova (PhD student, WP2, Inria) was appointed as the new Exa-MA representative in the YoungPEx early-career network. YoungPEx brings together PhD students and postdocs across the NumPEx consortium through workshops, seminars, and networking events.

Jan 19-21, 2026

General Assembly 2026 – Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Aix-en-Provence
Three-day annual meeting with all WP leaders (WP1-WP7) presenting progress and scientific highlights. Featured breakout sessions with Feel++, Scimba, Composyx, and Uranie frameworks, plus presentations on Sage-HPC and Daimos. All 24 presentation slides are now available.
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Jan 14, 2026

Exa-MA Website Refresh
The Exa-MA project website has been refreshed with updated content and improved navigation. New features include detailed work package pages, a comprehensive software stack catalog with 16+ open-source packages, team directory with photos, 2025 scientific highlights (50× GenEO speedups, 8000 GPU scale on LUMI, neural operator acceleration), and streamlined access to deliverables and publications.
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Jan 12, 2026

Webinar on Global Challenges and Built Environments – Online
Webinar on HPC applications and use cases for built environments, including the Ktirio Urban Building presentation on city-scale energy simulation from data to HPC simulations and decision support.
Event details and presentations

2025

Dec 09, 2025

Scientific Advisory Board Meeting – Virtual (Zoom)
Presentation of Exa-MA advances and 2025 highlights to the NumPEx Scientific Advisory Board. Topics included the 50× GenEO speedup, 8000-GPU LUMI deployment, neural operator acceleration (80-200% CPU savings), and CGAL 6.0 urban meshing achievements. Joint session with other NumPEx projects showcasing program-wide progress. Interactive session with board members providing feedback on project direction and scientific impact.

Nov 26-28, 2025

From Building to City Energy Simulation – Online
Three-day hands-on training course on building-level and city-scale energy simulation with the Ktirio Urban Building framework.
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Nov 17-19, 2025

Master Class by Prof. Mark Asch: Bayesian Inversion – University of Pau / Inria Makutu
Three-day master class by Prof. Mark Asch during his visit to Makutu and the University of Pau.
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Nov 12-14, 2025

First YoungPEx General Meeting – ENSEEIHT, Toulouse
Three-day workshop bringing together young researchers to discuss the future of HPC and open science. Topics included sustainable computing with Georges Da Costa (Exa-SoFT), Grid'5000 tutorials, energy measurement, and workshops on social and gender equality in science. Organized by Thomas Saigre (Exa-MA), Karmijn Hoogveld (Exa-SofT), and other NumPEx members.
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Nov 04, 2025

HiDALGO2 Clustering Event – HLRS, Stuttgart
Christophe Prud’homme presented the Ktirio Urban Building pilot for city energy modeling. The pilot, co-funded 50% by NumPEx for EuroHPC, showcased the Ktirio Geom library developed jointly through CoE Hidalgo2 and Exa-MA (WP1 Geometry, Unistra-Inria CA collaboration).
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Sep 03, 2025

NumPEx/ANR Meeting – Siège de l’ANR, Paris
Presentation of Exa-MA advances and 2025 highlights to ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) alongside other NumPEx projects. Joint session with all NumPEx project coordinators demonstrating the program’s scientific impact and progress towards exascale computing goals.

Mar 24-26, 2025

SciML'25 Conference – Politecnico di Milano
Emmanuel Franck (WP2 leader) delivered invited talk on scientific machine learning.
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Mar 24-26, 2025

Containerization, CI/CD, and Benchmarking Solutions for HPC – Online / University of Strasbourg
Three-day training session on containerization, CI/CD, and benchmarking solutions for HPC, developed jointly through Exa-MA WP7 and CoE HiDALGO2.
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Jan 14-15, 2025

General Assembly 2025 – Université de Strasbourg
Consortium review of progress, WP4 and WP7 updates, cross-work-package collaborations.
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2024

Dec 03, 2024

Packaging HPC Software Webinar
E. Agullo (INRIA): Modern packaging with Spack and Guix-HPC. J. Cladellas (UNISTRA): Preview of feelpp.benchmarking tool. See results at bench.feelpp.org
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Jan 16-17, 2024

General Assembly 2024 – Inria, Paris
First annual consortium meeting with WP presentations, technical discussions, and planning for Year 2 activities. Establishment of cross-WP collaborations.

2023

May 22-23, 2023

Exa-MA Kickoff Meeting – Inria, Paris
Official launch of the Exa-MA project within NumPEx. Introduction of all work packages, team presentations, and initial planning discussions.