15.01.2020 Reducing the risk of blood clots in artificial heart valves People with mechanical heart valves need blood thinners on a daily basis, because they have a higher risk of blood clots…
15.01.2020 Treasures found under pressure Some materials with useful properties only form at extreme conditions, like very high temperature and pressure. However,…
07.01.2020 Computationally designed materials for carbon capture An international team of chemical engineers conducted computational investigations and found materials that can capture…
05.12.2019 Winner of the 2019 APS/DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion Award A team of ETH Zurich and CSCS receives the 2019 APS/DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion Award. This was announced at the 72th…
26.11.2019 How the immune system gets on the wrong track With the help of simulations on the supercomputer "Piz Daint", an international research team has succeeded in making…
21.11.2019 Gordon Bell Prize awarded to two research groups at ETH Zurich The prestigious Gordon Bell Prize by the Association for Computing Machinery at Supercomputing ‘19 (SC19) goes to two…
15.11.2019 New matrix multiplication algorithm pushes the performance to the limits With a rapid increase of simulation resolution and precision in fields like quantum chemistry, solid state physics,…
11.11.2019 Towards unveiling the origin of our galaxy Up to this day, cosmic particles tell the story of the universe and how it came into existence. Now, a research group at…
15.10.2019 Tracing the dynamics of turbulent currents Mathematically precise description and prediction of turbulent flow remains an unsolved problem in physics and…
18.09.2019 A "simulation booster" for nanoelectronics Two research groups from ETH Zurich have developed a method that can simulate nanoelectronics devices and their…
16.09.2019 International Team of Scientists Dissolves Mystery of Gastric Proton Pump with “Piz Daint” Gastric acid is one of the most acidic substances found in nature. However, this acid is also the first line of defense…
06.09.2019 Nicola Spaldin awarded the Marcel Benoist Prize Nicola Spaldin, Professor of Materials Theory at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Swiss Science Prize Marcel Benoist for…
22.07.2019 Oceans Apart: Interdisciplinary Dialogue at PASC19 Explores Challenges in Computational Modeling A second edition of the Interdisciplinary Dialogue took place during the PASC19 conference June 12–14 in Zurich,…
15.07.2019 Practical Science: Fusion Physicist Marina Becoulet shares insights and reflections on PASC19 The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) held its sixth annual interdisciplinary conference for scientific…
25.06.2019 PASC19: Preparing for “Exascale and Beyond” The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) held its sixth annual interdisciplinary conference in scientific…
