The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF, Reading, UK) organized from November 1 to 5, 2010 the 14th Workshop on the Use of High Performance Computing (HPC) in Meteorology. The aim of this workshop is to bring together worldwide key players providing meteorological and climate services running numerical models. Some major HPC vendors also [...]
The Grand Challenges in Data-Intensive Discovery conference was be held at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) October 26 – 28, 2010. “Gordon” is a new machine funded by NSF with a 20 M$ grant for supporting data-intensive research applications. The machine will go in production in 3Q2011. The conference inaugurated a small predecessor system [...]
ETH Life just published an article on the Car-Parrinello method for performing ab-initio quantum mechanical molecular dynamics (MD). Prof. Parrinello, one of the two scientists that created the methods holds a dual professorship at ETH Zurich and the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano from 2011. The method has been developed 25 years ago and [...]
(from ACM TechNew) ETH Zurich scientists working on the FuturIcT project plan to use the world’s largest supercomputers to simulate life on Earth, including the financial system, economies, and whole societies. The ETH researchers, working under the Competence Center for Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems, are analyzing huge amounts of financial data to [...]
ETH Globe – the quarterly magazine of ETH Zurich – is reporting about the computing of the future and HPC (No.4 / November 2009). Within a month both ETH Zurich (ETH Globe) and EPF Lausanne (Flash Informatique) report about HPC developments in Switzerland. “High Performance Computing” systems and supercomputers (HPC) are now a key technology [...]
