Only a quick post this week as I'm at Supercomputing Asia 2025 in Singapore for the week. While it might be accurate to think of this as the southern hemisphere version of the Supercomputing USA event, there's a lot more value and purpose for the conference beyond that.
The APAC region is a fascinating and unique area with its own set of challenges and requirements. Coming from Australia originally, but working across Asia, I find the specificity of the use cases in high-context cultures to be immensely rewarding (and challenging) to work on.
While the major focus on my time this week is related to my work with OSRG, I will be taking meetings to discuss OpenQase, or more accurately, to discuss the problem space and gather more insights. I'm also going to spend time with the wonderful team from Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, who are an incredible supercomputing centre over in Perth, Australia, and were the first partners of Quantum Brilliance in my time working at the latter.
I included the case study of Quantum Brilliance and Pawsey in the OpenQase Cast Studies section although it does prompt the question of where to draw the line between "commercial business case" and "commercial or vendor partnerships". It's too early in the project to draw some hard lines around the semantics just yet, but this will prove to be one of the interest challenges, above and beyond just acquiring and sorting and maintaining an appropriate amount of data. As I said earlier, I don't want to make a directory, I want to make a curation that moves a user through the learning journey at a faster rate than being left on their own, so that might be a north star to help work out where to draw those lines.
In the meantime, SCA2025 continues, and there's an incredible cast of speakers and attendees even above and beyond the day job meetings and milestones. Would that we all never take the community events for granted.