EPFL scientists have combined two materials with advantageous electronic properties – graphene and molybdenite – into a flash memory prototype that is very promising in terms of performance, size, flexibility and energy consumption. Author: Sarah Perrin Source: Mediacom After the molybdenite chip, we now have molybdenite flash memory, a significant step forward in the use [...]
The Swiss Numerics Days are series of annual, informal one-day meetings that continue the tradition of the “Journées Suisses d’Analyse Numérique” which were launched in 1976. They aim at bringing together researchers both from the academic and industrial sectors in Switzerland which are active in the fields of scientific computing numerical analysis high-performance computing visualization [...]
The European Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications (ENUMATH) conferences are a forum for discussion of basic aspects and new trends in numerical mathematics and challenging scientific and industrial applications on the highest level of international expertise. They started in Paris in 1995 and were subsequently held at the universities of Heidelberg (1997), Jyvaskyla (1999), Ischia [...]
Researchers at EPFL have discovered a new way of emitting photons one at a time. They have constructed semiconductor nanowires with “quantum dots” of unprecedented quality – a discovery with implications for the future of quantum computing. Author: Laure-Anne Pessina Source: Mediacom In a future of quantum computing, data will be treated and transmitted by [...]
Since January 28, researchers from EPFL and the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne have benefitted from a new supercomputer, the BlueGene/Q. This computer is four times more powerful than its predecessor – it can perform 172,000 billion operations per second! With low energy consumption, it also is counted among the Top 10 greenest supercomputers in [...]
