16.11.2015 Turning life into a profession Computer scientist Torsten Hoefler is the winner of this year’s Latsis Prize awarded by ETH Zurich. His Scalable…
09.11.2015 ETH research among the best supercomputer applications in 2015 Every year at the SC conference, the Gordon Bell Prize is presented to recognise outstanding work in the field of…
13.05.2015 Cold and snow came from the south As simulations conducted by climate researchers from the University of Bern and the Oeschger Centre reveal, the…
17.04.2015 Nanoelectronic components on the "computer test bench" Thanks to a special computer programme, researchers from ETH Zurich are able to simulate electronic nanocomponents and…
23.03.2015 Improving the theory of phase transitions with supercomputers Supercomputers help researchers where experimentation and observation reach their limits. Physicists Jürg Diemand and…
11.02.2015 Summer storms and heavy rainfall in the future climate Hail, thunderstorms and heavy rainfall. These extreme events are supposedly on the increase in the course of global…
19.11.2014 Bits and bytes in pictures Scientists are using Piz Daint’s graphics processors to simulate the Milky Way at an unprecedented resolution and…
29.10.2014 Trend signals from the oceans Scientists at the University of Bern have shown in a new study that the imprint of carbon dioxide emissions caused by…
16.10.2014 Supercomputer "feels" magnetic fields in the cosmos The supercomputer Piz Daint has enabled researchers to perform high-resolution simulations of cosmic magnetic fields and…
29.07.2014 Researching how stars explode Supernovae are exploding stars. The light from the explosion and its remnants enable numerous conclusions to be drawn…
01.07.2014 Supercomputers drive the discovery of novel materials Nicola Marzari, a professor at EPF Lausanne, is convinced that computational materials science is on the verge of a…
18.06.2014 Efficient computing Scientific high-performance computing should become more efficient – this is one of the goals for researchers from ETH…
09.04.2014 Slidecast: Capire il cervello attraverso la simulazione Il CSCS ha ospitato lo scorso 11 marzo una conferenza pubblica tenuta da Richard Walker dedicata a "Capire il cervello…
24.03.2014 "One of the most important physics discoveries of this decade" Martin Kunz, a professor in the Cosmology Group at the University of Geneva would like to prove the existence of defects…
18.03.2014 Cloud-resolving climate simulations for Europe Climate scientists have used the brand new supercomputer “Piz Daint” to verify their high-resolution models. Their goal…
