The Swiss German television SF DRS reported in the transmission Einstein about the research results of Prof. Lucio Mayer of the University of Zurich about the first realistic simulation of the birth of a galaxy similar to our Milky Way. Have a look at the movie (in German) Einstein vom 22.12.2011
In the last weeks the international press was reporting about the first results in the search for the Higg particle at CERN. The infrastructure behind the the LHC experiment in Geneva is impressing in all respects. A large number of technicians and researchers is working around the clock assuring that the infrastructure is working. In [...]
An animation produced by Swiss scientists about the Reversing Magnetic Field of Planet Earth is one of the 16 selected animations for SC11 Scientific Visualization Showcase. The visualization showcase relies on competitive selection visualizations with a goal to have an event and place at the conference that collects and showcases state-of-the-art scientific visualizations that relate [...]
The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) reported today how the group of professor Michele Parrinello demonstrated how diamonds emerge from graphite by using the Monte Rosa Cray XT5 supercomputer. For the first time ever the researchers have used a new method to precisely simulate the phase transition from graphite to diamond. Instead of happening concerted, [...]
Anton Kozhevnikov is one of the co-winner of the Gordon Bell Prize Honorable Mention for Special Achievements in Scalability at last Supercomputing Conference SC10 in New Orleans (see our previous posting). Anton is a post doc at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at ETH Zurich and is working for the Computational Physics group under the [...]
