Monthly Archives: December 2019

First light on the VSC-4

Just before Christmas, on December 20, 2019, 240 private cores of the VSC-4 dedicated for VLBI correlation could be used for the first time. This test showed that DiFX 2.6 and HOPS-2.20 could have been installed successfully on the most powerful supercomputer in Austria currently available.

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PhD Defense Matthias Schartner

On December 17, 2019, Matthias Schartner successfully defended his PhD thesis on scheduling VLBI observations. John Gipson, Axel Nothnagel, and Johannes Böhm challenged him with difficult questions, but Matthias masterfully answered all. Congratulations!

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