12.06.2013 Neuroscience to Benefit from Hybrid Supercomputer Memory To handle large amounts of data from detailed brain models, IBM, EPF Lausanne, and ETH Zurich are collaborating on a new…
10.06.2013 Come un supercomputer può aiutare a restituire armonia al cuore Il CSCS ha ospitato lo scorso 7 giugno una conferenza pubblica tenuta dal Professor Auricchio in cui ha illustrato "Come…
28.05.2013 Fast or superfast water transport There were high hopes of using carbon nanotubes, particularly for ultra-fast water transport to desalinate seawater.…
25.03.2013 Perché senza Grid-Computing non si sarebbe trovata la nuova particella al CERN Il 22 Marzo la penultima conferenza scientifica di un ciclo organizzato dal CSCS allo scopo di far conoscere al grande…
14.03.2013 Climate change adversely affects mountain forests Mountain forests in the Alps react very differently but noticeably to a warmer climate. Even if the target of limiting…
19.02.2013 Using the supercomputer to look for traces of evolution in genes In the HP2C project “Selectome”, scientists from the University of Lausanne and the SIB Institute of Bioinformatics and…
14.01.2013 "Do something that significantly improves the quality of human life" Diego Rossinelli is a senior scientist at the Computational Science & Engineering Laboratory of ETH Zurich, lead by…
03.01.2013 Big Bang under the microscope Scientists have replaced the telescope by the microscope: Using the similarities between the structure of a crystal and…
18.12.2012 Searching for defects in space Topological defects in space may have developed fractions of a second after the Big Bang. Simulations of these wormlike…
20.11.2012 CSE Lab wins the Milton Van Dyck Award: the Gallery of Fluid Motion 2012 The Computational Science & Engineering Laboratory (CSE Lab) of ETH Zurich lead by Professor Petros Koumoutsakos wins…
12.11.2012 A supercomputer to understand the failing heart In certain heart diseases, the left ventricle does not contract simultaneously. Usually, a pacemaker can come to the…
26.09.2012 Under the sign of cosmic strings The two-day User Day held from 20 – 21 September 2012 offered users an opportunity to exchange ideas intensively on…
13.06.2012 Materials research meets cosmology This year’s Max Rössler Prize goes to Nicola Spaldin, a professor of materials theory in the Department of Materials at…
02.05.2012 Escape response of small fish tested using a supercomputer Small fish bend themselves into a ‘C’ shape before they flee from predators. Observations have suggested that this shape…
02.04.2012 Solving the Mystery of Neanderthal Man in the Supercomputer Around 15,000 years after modern humans, Homo sapiens, came to Europe, Homo neanderthalensis disappeared for good. Now…
