SC10 Report: Climate Thrust Area (Part 1)
The short series of reports from the SC11 conference closes with two posting from our colleague Will Sawyer (CSCS) on the Climate Thrust Area. The climate thrust area had a … Read More
Category: Science
Workshop on Large-Scale Data Analysis
The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) invites you to a Workshop on large-scale data analysis 10:30 AM – 04:30 PM; Friday February 18, 2011, Radisson Blu Hotel, Lucerne The workshop … Read More
Supercomputers Demonstrate how Bacteria Infect Wounds
The research group led by Viola Vogel, Professor of Biologically Oriented Materials at ETH Zurich, has studied with the help of supercomputers the mechanisms behind the infections of wounds. If … Read More
Panel on Experience of Using HPC in Meteorology and RAPS Forum
Some weeks ago we published a conference report from the 14th ECMWF workshop on HPC in Meteorology. At the end of the workshop ECMWF organized a panel discussing the experience … Read More
Conference Report: 14th ECMWF Workshop on the Use of High Performance Computing in Meteorology
The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF, Reading, UK) organized from November 1 to 5, 2010 the 14th Workshop on the Use of High Performance Computing (HPC) in Meteorology. … Read More
Conference Report: Gordon Conference “Grand Challenges in Data-Intensive Discovery”
The Grand Challenges in Data-Intensive Discovery conference was be held at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) October 26 – 28, 2010. “Gordon” is a new machine funded by NSF … Read More
Groundbreaking method for computer simulation: Car-Parrinello method turns 25
ETH Life just published an article on the Car-Parrinello method for performing ab-initio quantum mechanical molecular dynamics (MD). Prof. Parrinello, one of the two scientists that created the methods holds … Read More
ETH Zurich: Social Supercomputing Is Now
(from ACM TechNew) ETH Zurich scientists working on the FuturIcT project plan to use the world’s largest supercomputers to simulate life on Earth, including the financial system, economies, and whole … Read More
ETH Globe is Reporting About the Computing of the Future and HPC
ETH Globe – the quarterly magazine of ETH Zurich – is reporting about the computing of the future and HPC (No.4 / November 2009). Within a month both ETH Zurich … Read More
Team with Prof. Schulthess (ORNL, Institute for Theoretical Physics and Swiss National Supercomputing Center) wins a Gordon Bell Prize for the second time in a row
A team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL’s) Markus Eisenbach and with Prof. Thomas Schulthess was named winner Thursday of the 2009 ACM Gordon Bell Prize, which honors the … Read More
Swiss TV (SF1 10vor10) reports about CSCS and HPCN strategy
On October 20, 2009 the Swiss TV reported on the late news trasmission 10vor10 about the new Supercomputer installed at CSCS and the Swiss National HPC strategy (HPCN). Neuer Supercomputer … Read More
Swiss TV (SF1 Einstein) reporting on HPC system at the University of Zurich
The television program Einstein of SF1 broadcasted on August 28, 2009 about Schrödinger, the new HPC system of the Universitiy of Zurich. Mit neuem Supercomputer gegen Alzheimer Die Universität Zürich … Read More