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Neuroscience to Benefit from Hybrid Supercomputer Memory
June 12, 2013
To handle large amounts of data from detailed brain models, IBM, EPF Lausanne, and ETH Zurich are collaborating on a new hybrid memory strategy for supercomputers. This will help the Blue Brain Project and the Human Brain Project...
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Fast or superfast water transport?
May 28, 2013
There were high hopes for carbon nanotubes, particularly for ultra-fast water transport to desalinate seawater. Now, however, a simulation reveals that these estimations of ultra-fast transport rates might have not been properly...
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With “Piz Daint” CSCS enters the path towards petaflop computing
March 20, 2013
The new CSCS supercomputer named "Piz Daint" is the first and largest Cray XC30 system installed worldwide. In the beginning of April the system will be made available to Swiss researchers.
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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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