VORtech Blog

VORtech has won an important tender from TenneT in close collaboration with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Netherlands. For at least three years, we will be helping to develop software for calculations around the high-voltage network. 

VORtech won a tender from Rijkswaterstaat Water Verkeer en Leefomgeving (WVL) for the renewal of strategic passenger transport models.

There have been some staff changes within VORtech. We welcomed two new Scientific Software Engineers who we would like to introduce to you. The administration department had a few big changes. We had to say goodbye to two dear colleagues and we welcomed 2 new colleagues.

If you're interested in the role machine learning will play in developing computational software, Professor Rob van Nieuwpoort's group at LIACS in Leiden is a good starting point. They're working on generating efficient code for specialized hardware and developing foundation models for technical applications. In this interview, Professor Van Nieuwpoort discusses his group's research.

We would like to share some of the experiences we've had over the past 15 years working on critical software with a complex legacy component. It dates back to the 1980s and has evolved into a powerful system packed with domain knowledge and smart algorithms. Its "killer feature" is its ability to handle complex geometries. Over the years, the program has more than proven its value.

The top 10 of the November 2024 list of supercomputers is very much a western affair, all coming from the US, Europe and Japan. But in fact, if China’s fastest supercomputers were listed, they would be third and fifth on the list. And the commercial sector is building machines that are even faster than the number one.

Do you recognize this: software that was developed long ago, has been extended and adapted for years, but no longer meets today’s standards? If so, then our lunch lecture on modernizing software on September 24 is for you.

Although there are still plenty of doubts about the real impact of AI, there is one sector where its effect can no longer be denied: software development. VORtech quickly started working with the new AI possibilities. But not without the necessary safeguards because there are indeed risks.

When Hans Voerknecht developed a new way to evaluate accessibility a few years ago, he quickly knew that this would require good software. Although he could program himself, he also realized that his strength lies in devising the calculation method and not in software development. That is why he partnered with VORtech.

Every year, humanity uses some 40% more of the earth’s resources than the earth can sustainably supply in that year. Clearly, this cannot go on forever. Awareness of this is growing and major transitions are starting to take shape. As an expert in developing computational software, VORtech sees an important role for itself in developing the software for computing and simulation that is needed to make these transitions. We are happy to see this already reflected in our client portfolio.