This is the second part of the posting on the SC10 Report on Climate Thrust Area by Will Sawyer. Community Climate Model Development In a masterworks talk, Ricky Rood (professor at Univ. of Michigan) insisted climate projections offer an historic opportunity: for the first time we have a glimpse into the future and can potentially [...]
The short series of reports from the SC11 conference closes with two posting from our colleague Will Sawyer (CSCS) on the Climate Thrust Area. The climate thrust area had a significant presence at the conference. The basic program consisted of one plenary talk, four masterworks presentations, one BoF session, two panels and a number of [...]
The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) invites you to a Workshop on large-scale data analysis 10:30 AM – 04:30 PM; Friday February 18, 2011, Radisson Blu Hotel, Lucerne The workshop is aimed at researchers who are facing challenges in data analytics and are looking for an adequate facility in Switzerland to analyze their data efficiently. [...]
The research group led by Viola Vogel, Professor of Biologically Oriented Materials at ETH Zurich, has studied with the help of supercomputers the mechanisms behind the infections of wounds. If connective tissue fibres are under tension, bacteria do not bind to them so well. However, if the fibres are severed and slackened by a cut, [...]
Some weeks ago we published a conference report from the 14th ECMWF workshop on HPC in Meteorology. At the end of the workshop ECMWF organized a panel discussing the experience of using HPC in meteorology. A paper resuming the results of the panel is now available and can be downloaded from the ECMWF website. Web [...]
