27.05.2025 Scientists explore the dynamic nature of dark energy Invisible but influential, dark energy shapes the universe and its expansion, yet its nature remains unclear. A group at…
19.05.2025 Why autonomous mobility needs to learn to wonder about the world Autonomous Mobility already exists… to some extent. Building an autonomous vehicle that can safely navigate an empty…
26.03.2025 Torsten Hoefler Wins the ACM Prize in Computing — Honouring a Pioneer and a Milestone for Swiss Computing Torsten Hoefler, Professor at ETH Zürich and Chief Architect for AI and Machine Learning at CSCS, wins the ACM Prize in…
17.03.2025 Scientists identify key risk factor for thrombosis after heart valve surgery Patients who received heart valve implants are more likely to develop thrombosis than previously thought, posing a risk…
07.02.2025 Farewell to Piz Daint For over a decade, Piz Daint, the Cray XC50/XC40 supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), has…
05.02.2025 How certain molecules protect against Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Swiss scientists have developed a novel computational approach to accelerate the search for effective Parkinson’s and…
20.12.2024 ‘Alps’ Powers a Prize-Winning Ultra-High Resolution Global Climate Emulator For decades, climate modelling has struggled with the trade-off between global scale and high resolution. Now, with the…
22.11.2024 From Earthquakes to Diamonds: REVEAL Uncovers Earth’s Hidden Depths A new model developed at ETH Zürich with CSCS resources reveals the Earth’s inner layers in never-before-seen detail.…
03.10.2024 On a mission to boost science: insights from the ‘Alps’ Scientific Symposium CSCS’s new supercomputer, ‘Alps,’ inaugurated on 14 September, is set to advance research and encourage scientists to…
30.09.2024 The birth of Jupiter: a first visualization computed on ‘Alps’ The first-ever visualization computed on CSCS’s new ‘Alps’ supercomputer brings to life a giant collision in our solar…
19.09.2024 The first marathon for ‘Alps’: A 20-hour run fully exploited the new machine’s performance In a 20-hour “hero run,” researchers at PSI harnessed the full power of the Alps supercomputer. They executed…
13.08.2024 How scientists uncovered and corrected a specific bias in climate models With weather and climate phenomena becoming more extreme and challenging for our society, accurate climate simulations…
20.06.2024 PASC24: the ACM Student Research Competition strengthens HPC This year marked the PASC conference’s ten-year anniversary, and, for the first time, the number of attendees exceeded…
20.06.2024 PASC24: the convergence of science, computing and fun This year's PASC program explored both the benefits of and sometimes the challenges in high-performance computing (HPC),…
29.05.2024 Scientists explore complex metal alloys for a promising way to greener and fairer chemistry Many industrial processes rely on rare elements — notably as part of catalysts for essential chemical reactions.…