Models boost the significance of image and measurement data from space missions and help to understand our solar system. A simulation of a double impact that occurred on the proto-planet Vesta one billion years ago allowed scientists to describe precisely the inner structure of the asteroid. A joint research from EPFL, Bern University, France and [...]
Daniel Duffy (Lead System Architect) and William Putman (Research Meteorologist) of the NASA Center for Climate Simulation and the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center present the challenges facing global climate modeling today. In particular they discuss the requirements of high resolution modeling: the need for powerful computing resources [...]
Henry Markram, Director of the Blue Brain Project at EPFL has been listed by HPCwire in the list “People to Watch 2013“. HPCwire’s annual People to Watch list pays tribute to an exemplary group of the best and brightest minds of HPC who’s hard work, dedication and contributions will possibly reach beyond the spectrum of [...]
In the wake of the interest awaken by the CSCS inauguration and the Open Day, on August 31st and September 1st, 2012 respectively, RSI Rete 3 journalist Claudia Demircan and Maria Grazia Giuffreda, head of the user support, are revealing the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre to the “BAOBAB” audience. Sulla scia dell’interesse suscitato dall’inaugurazione del CSCS [...]
Yesterday the European Commission has confirmed the news already published by Nature last Friday, that the Human Brain and the Graphene projects are the two European projects awarded with 1 billion Euros over a period of 10 years. One of the partners of the Human Brain Project led by Professor Henry Markram at EPF Lausanne [...]
