Opening at EPFL for data architect/software scientist with background in physics/chemistry/materials, to develop data&simulation infrastructure of BIG-MAP, as part of the #AiiDA and #MaterialsCloud teams. Deadline: 15 June. More info and how to apply: theossrv1.epfl.ch/Main/Openings

This year's AiiDA virtual tutorial will be held on 5-9 July 2021! Register before June 10th: aiida.net/aiida-virtual-… MaX CoE BIG-MAP NCCR-MARVEL intersect Quantum ESPRESSO swissuniversities

The registration for the AiiDA virtual tutorial has been extended until June 17th (23:59 CEST). Don't miss your chance! More information: aiida.net/aiida-virtual-… MaX CoE BIG-MAP NCCR-MARVEL intersect Quantum ESPRESSO swissuniversities

The paper reviewing the theory behind the Materials Cloud tool to predict the low-frequency infrared and Raman modes of 2D materials is now published on ACS Nano: doi.org/10.1021/acsnan… Tool: materialscloud.org/work/tools/lay… NCCR-MARVEL MaX CoE swissuniversities #OSSCAR

Common workflows for computing material properties using different codes can boost reproducibility, simplify interoperability and cross-verification, and open up their use to a wider range of researchers. More in npj Journals Comput. Mater.: bit.ly/3mgZSy6 MaX CoE

Check out our new paper on common AiiDA workflows for materials properties via 11 different quantum codes: identical input/output format and fully automatic parameter choice! npj Comput. Mater. 7, 136 (2021), doi.org/10.1038/s41524… MaX CoE swissuniversities EPFL Open Science

We're hiring a Materials Cloud Software Engineer/Web developer at EPFL! Position renewable yearly up to 4 years. Applications should be submitted by Oct 31st, 2021. All details at this link: theossrv1.epfl.ch/uploads/Main/O…

Friday night was our hero run on LUMI-C! AiiDA orchestrating 55704 Quantum ESPRESSO calculations to optimize the geometry of 15324 inorganic compounds - record utilization of 196608 AMD Epyc cores. #lumisupercomputer #lumieurohpc NCCR-MARVEL MaX CoE Quantum ESPRESSO

Last week (6-10 Dec 2021) we had a coding week for AiiDA, in Leysin (bit.ly/3yAIiJu). Thanks to all the participants on-site and online. Looking forward to the next similar events in the future! NCCR-MARVEL MaX CoE #Hackathon #developers #coding

Learn how to compute many materials properties via Wannier functions at the Wannier 2022 Summer School, at ICTP (Trieste, Italy), 16-20 May 2022. Registration deadline: 15 Feb 2022. Will also explain how to automatically obtain Wannier functions via AiiDA! indico.ictp.it/event/9789/

Congrats to the #MaterialsCloud Archive team on the 500th submission!! The 1st 100 records took 20 months, the last 100 only 5, with new submissions coming in every day... nccr-marvel.ch/news/communica… AiiDA Team Swiss National Science Foundation Open Research Europe GO FAIR MaX CoE BIG-MAP

Two open positions at EPFL for postdocs/software engineers on coupling #MaterialsCloud Archive with simulations using #AiiDA and #AiiDAlab! Deadline: March 20th, 2022. Details and how to apply: theossrv1.epfl.ch/uploads/Main/O… NCCR-MARVEL BIG-MAP

The brand new AiiDA 2.0 has been released! Improved performance in the storage capabilities and the import/export functionality, among others! More information here: bit.ly/3MAcRo9 #MARVEL_NCCR NCCR-MARVEL #MaX_CoE MaX CoE Quantum ESPRESSO

AiiDA appears in the "Tools of the Trade" of Nature Reviews Physics (nature.com/articles/s4225…) #MARVEL_NCCR NCCR-MARVEL #MaX_CoE MaX CoE

We are already on the 4th day of the Flagship workshop "Open Databases Integration for Materials Design" here in CECAM-HQ! Today, participants (online and on-site) are discussing about OPTIMADE #implementation. They will meet again tomorrow morning before leaving #Lausanne

Check the Microsoft webinar today, where they introduce their platform Azure Quantum Elements - AiiDA is tightly integrated in it!

2 new post-doc/research software engineer positions open at PSI Paul Scherrer Institut (Switzerland): join the AiiDA Team to extend AiiDA's support for large data and next-generation HPC! Info on how to apply here: psi.ch/en/pa/job-oppo… Deadline: July 30, 2023 psi.ch

Today we announce the launch of our new communication platform: aiida.discourse.group Join us with all your questions, discussions, and requests for support. Our developers and community are looking forward to be able to help out!

Materials Cloud has been selected as one of the three Open Science Projects featured by EPFL Open Science epfl.ch/research/open-…! You can check the video here: youtube.com/watch?v=jud_Fs…

AiiDA is being presented at the EuroSciPy this week! Both talks and a tutorial, focusing on the new WorkGraph syntax to make writing workflows much easier. If you are at the conference, come to check it out!