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
Call for registration – HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2013 – March 13-15
The HPC Advisory Council, a leading organization for high-performance computing research, outreach and education, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, will host the 4th HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2013 … Read More
Interview with CSE-Lab scientist Diego Rossinelli – “Do something that significantly improves the quality of human life”
by Simone Ulmer, CSCS The Computational Science and Engineering Laboratory has a gallery (www.cse-lab.ethz.ch) of fascinating visualisations. Most of them have been made by you. Do you consider visualisation to … Read More
CSE Lab of ETH Zurich wins the Van Dyke Award: 3D Shock-Bubble Interactions at Mach 3
The Computational Science & Engineering Laboratory (CSE Lab) of ETH Zurich lead by Professor Petros Koumoutsakos wins the Milton Van Dyke Award presented at the 65th Annual Conference of the … Read More
Darren Reed presents his poster on “Clues about the dark matter particle from the large-scale cosmic web of galaxies”
Dr. Darren Reed, a post doc at University of Zurich presents at CSCS User Day his work on “Clues about the dark matter particle from the large-scale cosmic web of … Read More
Stephan Mohr presents his work on “BigDFT”
At CSCS User Day, Maria-Grazia Giuffreda is briefly interviewing Stephan Mohr, a PhD student in the group of Professor Stefan Goedecker at University of Basel, about his project “BigDFT” and … Read More
Introduction to OpenACC and CUDA Programming on the Cray XK7 Platform – 18-19 February 2013
CSCS has recently upgraded its Cray XK6 platform to Cray XK7 by introducing NVIDIA K20x devices together with CUDA 5, and a new Cray programming environment that includes OpenACC compilers. The goal … Read More
Slidecast 3/3 – PRACE Summer School on Code Optimisation for Multi-Core and Intel MIC Architectures – Workshop on MIC
The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre CSCS in Lugano, Switzerland, hosted the PRACE Summer School on Code Optimisation for Multi-Core and Intel MIC Architectures on 21-23 June 2012. This third post is dedicated … Read More