A new light source for quantum computers
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
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A New Super-Green Supercomputer at EPFL
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
Using the supercomputer to look for traces of evolution in genes
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 announcing Human Brain Project at ISC’13
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
Simulation of a double impact reveals the heart of an asteroid
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
Courses at CSCS: Get “Up to Speed” with Cray Cascade, and Parallel Debugging with Allinea’s DDT
Get “Up to Speed” with Cray Cascade Course CSCS’ next flagship system to be brought into production in April 2013 is a Cray XC30 (Cascade) system with a peak performance … Read More
Henry Markram of EPFL listed on the HPCwire ‘People to Watch 2013’
Henry Markram, Director of the Blue Brain Project at EPFL has been listed by HPCwire in the list “People to Watch 2013“. HPCwire’s annual People to Watch list pays tribute … Read More
CSCS at “Baobab” RSI Rete Tre
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 … Read More
CSCS participates to radio broadcast about the future of Internet
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 … Read More
Thomas Schulthess on the implications of the Human Brain Project for CSCS
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 … Read More
Project under Swiss leadership receives 1 Billion-Euro to simulate human brain
As reported yesterday by “Nature” », the Human Brain Project (HBP) led by neuroscientist Henry Markram at EPF Lausanne will be awarded a total of EUR one billion to support research … Read More
CSCS Supercomputers help searching for topological defects in space
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 … Read More