Il CSCS ha organizzato una serie di conferenze scientifiche intitolata “Supercompuer, strumenti della scienza moderna” nella quale rinomati scienziati illustrano la propria attività di ricerca svolta con l’ausilio dei supercomputer e spiegano perché la ricerca, oggi, non può più fare a meno del calcolo ad alta potenza. “Perché senza Grid-Computing non si sarebbe trovata la [...]
Source: Mediacom EPFL More and more data churned out by even more powerful supercomputers. Science has entered the era of “Very Big Data”. But what for, exactly? Neuroscience, physics, climatology, human and social sciences… Science depends increasingly on gigantic quantities of data. How do we manage and exploit it all? What kind of results can [...]
Mountain forests in the Alps react very differently but noticeably to a warmer climate. Even if the target of limiting the Earth’s average temperature increase to 2 degrees were met, this would already prove too much of a challenge for some mountain forests. This is the result of computer simulations by researchers at ETH Zurich. [...]
A new-generation analog-to-digital converter (ADC) developed by a joint IBM-EPFL team has the potential to greatly increase the speed and volume of data that can be transferred over the Internet. Author: Sarah Perrin Source: Mediacom Images, audio, and video could soon travel through cyberspace much faster, using less energy, thanks to a new generation of [...]
In the HP2C project “Selectome”, scientists from the University of Lausanne and the SIB Institute of Bioinformatics and members of CSCS have successfully revised a code. It now also runs on supercomputers and calculates selection events in genes many times more quickly. by Simone Ulmer A small change in the protein Opsin of the visual [...]
