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With “Piz Daint” CSCS triples its computing power and takes the first step towards petaflop computing
March 20, 2013
With a new supercomputer named "Piz Daint" CSCS triples the computing resources made available to Swiss researchers. Piz Daint is the first and largest Cray XC30 supercomputer installed worldwide.
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Climate change adversely affects mountain forests
March 14, 2013
Researchers at ETH Zurich have simulated for the first time how a warmer climate would affect forest ecosystem services in the Swiss Alps. Higher average temperatures of just two degrees Celsius could already have serious...
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Using the supercomputer to look for traces of evolution in genes
February 19, 2013
Supercomputers should find selection events in the genes and thus shed more light on evolution.
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"Do something that significantly improves the quality of human life"
January 14, 2013
Diego Rossinelli, senior scientist at Computational Science & Engineering Laboratory, describes his research and future visions in this interview.
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Big Bang under the microscope
January 2, 2013
Scientists have replaced the telescope by the microscope: Using the similarities between the structure of a crystal and the state of the cosmos in the early universe, they have explored a yet unconfirmed phenomenon, the formation...
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Searching for defects in space
December 18, 2012
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 measurements by the Planck...
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CSE Lab wins the Van Dyke Award: the Gallery of Fluid Motion 2012
November 20, 2012
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 Division of Fluid Dynamics of the...
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