New appointments, the annual report, the core service package, the reorganisation of SURF, and the AI factory: these were the central topics during the SURF members’ council meeting held on 18 June…
Last week, an important milestone was reached in Dutch higher education: all universities of applied sciences jointly decided to embrace and fund Publinova. This decision underlines the commitment of…
On 11 July, SURF commissioned a new expansion of Snellius, the Netherlands' most powerful supercomputer. The expansion increases Snellius' performance from 15 PFlop/s to almost 38 PFlop/s. This is…
GPT-NL: a transparent language model, grown on home soil. During a webinar on 27 June, SURF project officer Duuk Baten gave an update on this project, which we launched in November 2023. You too can…
SURF's Experimental Technologies Platform, the collaborative environment where the industry can experiment with advanced IT technologies in advanced computing and data-driven science, has been…
Martijn Bijleveld, cyber security programme manager at MBO Digitaal, has won the SURF Security & Privacy Award 2024 for his extraordinary commitment to the MBO Cyber Security programme. Bijleveld…
From 2 May, SURF will stop using X (formerly Twitter) as its communication channel. The reason is that X no longer matches SURF's public values such as humanity, autonomy and justice. Also, the reach…
Together with Nokia, Nikhef and CERN, SURF has tested the speed of data transfer between CERN in Geneva and Amsterdam. A data rate of 800Gbit per second was achieved on the 1.648-kilometre fibre…
