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 […]
CSCS Supercomputers help searching for topological defects in space
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 […]
Interview with CSE-Lab scientist Diego Rossinelli – “Do something that significantly improves the quality of human life”
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 […]
CSE Lab of ETH Zurich wins the Van Dyke Award: 3D Shock-Bubble Interactions at Mach 3
The Computational Science & Engineering Laboratory (CSE Lab) of ETH Zurich lead by Professor Petros Koumoutsakos wins the Milton Van Dyke Award presented at the 65th Annual Conference of the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society, November 18-20, 2012, in San Diego, CA. This award highlights photographs and videos that illustrate both […]
NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) and NCAR Yellowstone supercomputer
Rich Loft, Director of Technology and Development at the Computing Lab of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Aaron Andersen (Deputy Director for Operations at NCAR) have been involved from the beginning in the design of the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC). NWSC has been operational since October 2012 and hosts the Yellowstone supercomputer, […]