Volcanic eruptions and reduced solar radiation caused global cooling between the thirteenth and the fifteenth centuries. The resulting accelerated formation of sea ice in the Northern Seas triggered a positive feedback process that shaped the Little Ice Age, as a new study by climate scientists from the University of Bern and the Oeschger Centre for [...]
Maria Grazia Giuffreda presented at the CSCS User Meeting 2013 in Lucerne the CHRONOS Call for Proposals. CHRONOS is an annual call for proposals issued by CSCS for high-impact, challenging and innovative research opened to all fields of science. Researchers from academia and research institutes are eligible to apply. The CHRONOS proposals can be awarded [...]
CSCS announces a 3-day training course on GPU programming: Programming for GPUs: Introduction to OpenACC 2.0 & CUDA 5.5 – December 4-6, 2013 Experts from Cray and NVIDIA, together with CSCS staff will teach participants the basics of programming in the latest versions of OpenACC and CUDA, together with tools for code debugging and parallel performance analysis. The course will [...]
Researchers from ETH Zurich have successfully demonstrated, for the first time in vivo, how bone tissue responds to local mechanical stimuli that control bone formation. The study reveals how important it is to stimulate the bones through movement. by Simone Ulmer It is common knowledge that mechanical stress on bones, arising through activities such as [...]
