The Human Brain Project, recently awarded a 10 year grant by the EU Commission, will pull together all our existing knowledge about the human brain and to reconstruct the brain, piece by piece, in supercomputer-based models and simulations. In a special session at the 2013 International Supercomputing Conference, scientists working on the Human Brain Project [...]
ISC – the largest HPC conference in Europe – just announced that it will be giving the Human Brain project, led by Dr. Henry Markram of EPFL, a permanent platform at ISC to share their latest research findings for the next 10 years. Their first talk “Supercomputing & the Human Brain Project – Following Brain [...]
ISC events, the organizers of the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) and ISC Cloud announced yesterday a new conference series – the ISC Big Data Conference. The inaugural event will be held September 25 and 26 in the Marriott Hotel, Heidelberg, Germany. Over the course of two days, the forum will scrutinize all facets of big [...]
ISC’13 communicated today the introduction of a new industry track into the conference program. With the introduction of some new program elements and sessions as single tracks in the 2013 program, the International Supercomputing Conference will offer attendees the most comprehensive four-day technical program in the 28 years of the conference. Unlike the past few [...]
Switzerland will be present in the newly launched ISC HPC Blog launched at the beginning of February 2012. Michele De Lorenzi (head of communication and associate director at CSCS) and Simone Ulmer (science journalist) will be posting articles about HPC activities in Switzerland on a regular basis. To start the series of blog entries, they [...]
