Insights

Swiss hydropower: from slow and steady to flexible and ready

Thanks to hydropower, Switzerland’s energy production was relatively green long before the political decisions boosted…

Building the PASC Conferences: "The most rewarding moment is when you meet the participants and feel the energy of the crowd…"

Tatjana Ruefli joined CSCS shortly after the first PASC Conference in 2014 as Event Manager and Personal Assistant to…

Researchers explore materials with new machine learning approach

With the help of the CSCS supercomputer "Piz Daint", researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed an…

Connected and strong: the European HPC ecosystem

Over 200 HPC experts from 33 countries just met at the EuroCC/CASTIEL conference in Montenegro — to speak about the…

Olaf Schenk at PASC22: “The format is suitable for different disciplines; it is not too specific in one direction but still focused.”

It all started with the need to better align algorithms and the architecture of high-performance computers for solving…

Imaging the brain with ultrasound waves

As wave specialists, seismologists map the structure of planets from the information that seismic waves carry. Now, the…

Interdisciplinary Dialogue: Data Science for Social Equality

Since 2018, the interdisciplinary dialogue is an integral part of the PASC Conference. This year, ETH Board President…

PASC 22: "Computing and Data... for all Humankind"

This year's PASC Conference was dedicated to advancements in computing that are helping researchers tackle some of the…

LUMI: "A European powerful green supercomputer to solve current and future scientific challenges"

On Monday 13, 2022, the supercomputer LUMI owned by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and run by a consortium of 10…

CSCS becomes Swiss provider of the data infrastructure for the Square Kilometre Array Observatory

CSCS will support scientists of the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) consortium all over the world to shed…

HPC simulations predict mysterious biological processes of the cell

In the life sciences, computer simulations usually confirm experiments and make visible what imaging methods cannot…

PASC (also) fulfils dreams

Computer scientist Florina Ciorba helps researchers optimise their codes to make the most of the CSCS computing research…

Explained: a milestone in nuclear fusion energy production

Theorists have long believed that nuclear fusion holds the potential to produce an essentially unlimited amount of clean…

Researchers use "Piz Daint" to simulate important structural elements of the pion

With the help of the CSCS supercomputer "Piz Daint", an international team of researchers succeeded for the first time…

New method cracks simulation of foam formation

Whether on top of a cappuccino or in the wake of waterfalls, foam is omnipresent. Until now, simulating foams…