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 [...]
On January 9th 2013 CSCS participated in the RSI RETE UNO radio program “Millevoci” to discuss the future of internet. Nicola Colotti invited CSCS associate director Michele De Lorenzi and two experts of new technologies, communication and internet Paolo Attivissimo and Alessandro Longo to try to answer questions such as “are computers going to to develop [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The HPC Advisory Council, a leading organization for high-performance computing research, outreach and education, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, will host the 4th HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2013 in the Lugano Convention Centre, Lugano, Switzerland, from March 13-15, 2013. The conference will update attendees on the progress of Exascale in the European Union [...]
