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…
18.03.2014 "Stairway to heaven": Piz Daint validates method Initial simulations on the supercomputer “Piz Daint” have validated a method that aims to solve the key problems in…
18.03.2014 Zooming into the Earth's interior with a supercomputer Scientists have set themselves the goal of using simulations to map the Earth’s interior in so much detail that you can…
28.01.2014 Continents set the pace The origin and stimulus behind plate tectonics has been simulated with the aid of high-performance computers. A new…
21.01.2014 Formula 1 in high-performance computing The ETH Zurich computer scientist Torsten Hoefler is seen as a rising star of the high-performance computing community.…
