Miquel Pericas

Looked a bit at the code. The directory hierarchy is reasonable, even implements some optimizations! How does it compare to GCC or clang? And how did they define what C is, did the agents have access to the spec, or was it fully defined by the test suite?

Very nice article from Anthropic on using agent teams to develop a C compiler.

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New Python Subcommittee, and Anaconda joins OpenMP ARB - OpenMP Python will be the fourth officially-supported language in the OpenMP API, and leading Python infrastructure company Anaconda joins the OpenMP ARB 

The OpenMP ARB announces that Python will be supported in 7.0!
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I wonder if this means full support a la Fortran/C/C++ or if it will focus on a subset, or just bindings for loading/running OpenMP programs from Python. Excited to see this development!

HPC codes do not usually face the public, they run firewalled in private networks. Thats not to say that there haven't been attacks, but it is not a main concern. Performance is what matters.

First, the ecosystem is vast and optimized; 2nd, codes evolve for many years, and there is no incentive in the huge investment of rewriting a large piece of software; and third, the security argument doesn't really fly.

In our HPC master program, I sense some interest in Rust, but nobody complains that the projects expect C/C++. In HPC, C/C+/Fortran still rule, and for a variety of reasons:

Nice talk by Sylvester Ledru on Rust Coreutils in Ubuntu!

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An interesting opener. Students don't want to learn C, they want to learn Rust. But I believe languages don't exist because they are technically better, they live to serve their communities.

YouTube video by Kenneth Hoste How to Make Package Managers Scream @ FOSDEM'26 - Kenneth Hoste

The recording of my "How to Make Package Managers Scream" talk at FOSDEM'26 is now available, enjoy!

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Hari giving a great tutorial on Singularity containers as part of our parallel computing project course DAT630! #HPC

This is only the 2nd edition of the course. I look forward to working with the students, analyzing the learning process and, possibly, writing a report as an outcome of the course! #HPC

Excited after the first week of our project course on parallel computing. Over the next 7 weeks, 92 students, assembled into teams of 6-7, will tackle an LLM inference optimization challenge (CPU+GPU), and containerize+run key HPC benchmarks (HPL, HPCG, HPL-MP, Graph500) on our local cluster Vera.

Software taketh away faster than hardware giveth: Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI 2025 was another great year for C++. It shows in the numbers Before we dive into the data below, let’s put the most important question up front: Why have C++ and Rust been the fastest-growing major…

Every now and then some students approach me to do projects in Rust, which are lots of fun. But my core teaching language remains C++, and despite FUD coming from a few loud voices, C++ is and likely will remain the major language for performance oriented programming herbsutter.com/2025/12/30/s...

In Memoriam: Remembering Mike Flynn Michael J. Flynn is a widely respected contributor—indeed a giant—in the field of Computer Architecture.  He made highly significant and impactful contributions throughout his career, both in indus…

Sad to learn about the passing of Mike Flynn. Mike made several core contributions to computer architecture, and will long be remembered for the Flynn taxonomy, which my students also study. This ACM sigarch blog summarizes his life and achievements www.sigarch.org/in-memoriam-... #hpc #comparch

Meet Sweden, the unicorn factory chasing America in the AI race | Fortune Stockholm has the highest number of unicorns per capita of any city in the world outside of Silicon Valley.

fortune.com/2026/01/03/s... cool, but where are the GBG unicorns?

Inspired by 18 innings? Interested in #AI, #Supercomputers, #Cloud, #HPC? Attending #SC25?

Get your place at the sought-after #Microsoft + #AMD SC reception!

Tue 18th, 6.30pm, Busch Stadium

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dare-project A new era for supercomputing in Europe The DARE project aims to boost European digital transformation by developing novel computing and AI technologies Latest updates from DARE Nothing Fo...

Looking for a postdoc in HPC? We have one postdoctoral opening to work on compilation+runtimes for RISC-V based vector and matrix multicore processors. The research is part of the European @dare-eu.bsky.social project (dare-riscv.eu). Apply by Nov 21st 2025 here: www.chalmers.se/en/about-cha...

dare-project A new era for supercomputing in Europe The DARE project aims to boost European digital transformation by developing novel computing and AI technologies Latest updates from DARE Nothing Fo...

I am recruiting one PhD to work on runtimes and code generation for next-gen RISC-V vector/matrix processors! This research will be part of the EuroHPC DARE project (dare-riscv.eu). Apply by Oct 31st, 2025! www.chalmers.se/en/about-cha...
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@miquelapericas.bsky.social hola!

Excited to be part of the @dare-eu.bsky.social team! Chalmers will be working on optimizing parts of SYCL, OpenMP, and oneDNN for our next generation of European #RISCV processors. We will be posting job vacancies on these topics soon! Follow me for updates