by Julie Lynton On Tuesday June 18, a session on “Supercomputing & Human Brain Project – Following Brain Research & ICT on 10-Year Quest” will be held in Leipzig, Germany … Read More
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, … Read More
Source: Mediacom EPFL More and more data churned out by even more powerful supercomputers. Science has entered the era of “Very Big Data”. But what for, exactly? Neuroscience, physics, climatology, … Read More
A new-generation analog-to-digital converter (ADC) developed by a joint IBM-EPFL team has the potential to greatly increase the speed and volume of data that can be transferred over the Internet. … Read More
EPFL scientists have combined two materials with advantageous electronic properties – graphene and molybdenite – into a flash memory prototype that is very promising in terms of performance, size, flexibility … Read More
The Swiss Numerics Days are series of annual, informal one-day meetings that continue the tradition of the “Journées Suisses d’Analyse Numérique” which were launched in 1976. They aim at bringing … Read More
The European Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications (ENUMATH) conferences are a forum for discussion of basic aspects and new trends in numerical mathematics and challenging scientific and industrial applications on … Read More
Researchers at EPFL have discovered a new way of emitting photons one at a time. They have constructed semiconductor nanowires with “quantum dots” of unprecedented quality – a discovery with … Read More
Since January 28, researchers from EPFL and the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne have benefitted from a new supercomputer, the BlueGene/Q. This computer is four times more powerful than its … Read More
In the HP2C project “Selectome”, scientists from the University of Lausanne and the SIB Institute of Bioinformatics and members of CSCS have successfully revised a code. It now also runs … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
