A 3-year position as PhD student is available in the group of Prof. Krause “High Performance Methods for Numerical Simulation in Science, Medicine and Engineering” at the Institute of Computational Science (ICS) in Lugano, Switzerland. The position is part of the project “ExaSolvers – Extreme scale solvers for coupled problems” within the DFG Priority Programme […]
As reported yesterday by “Nature” », the Human Brain Project (HBP) led by neuroscientist Henry Markram at EPF Lausanne will be awarded a total of EUR one billion to support research over a 10-year period. Half to be provided by the European Commission and half by participants. Part of the project will be dedicated to the […]
Topological defects in space may have developed fractions of a second after the Big Bang. Simulations of these wormlike entities and a comparison of the simulations with cosmic background radiation measurements by the Planck satellite should confirm their existence. by Simone Ulmer, CSCS When Martin Kunz, a professor in the Cosmology Group » at the University of […]
The HPC Advisory Council, a leading organization for high-performance computing research, outreach and education, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, will host the 4th HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2013 in the Lugano Convention Centre, Lugano, Switzerland, from March 13-15, 2013. The conference will update attendees on the progress of Exascale in the European Union […]
by Simone Ulmer, CSCS The Computational Science and Engineering Laboratory has a gallery (www.cse-lab.ethz.ch) of fascinating visualisations. Most of them have been made by you. Do you consider visualisation to be fun? Rossinelli: Everything started when I was an undergraduate student at ETH Zurich. During my master studies, I had my minor in computer graphics. After […]
