25.06.2019 PASC19: Preparing for “Exascale and Beyond” The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) held its sixth annual interdisciplinary conference in scientific…
19.02.2019 “If users are happy, we are happy, and we can consider ourselves successful” After her Postdoc in Chemistry at ETH Zurich, Maria Grazia Giuffreda started working at CSCS in 2006 as a support…
10.07.2018 PASC18 Conference in Basel Grows in Attendance and Scope More than 400 scientists from across the globe met in Basel from July 2–4, convening for the fifth edition of the PASC…
06.06.2018 Swimming in schools saves energy Researchers at ETH Zurich have clarified the previously unresolved question of whether fish save energy by swimming…
07.03.2018 A research career shaped by (super)computing ETH Professor Petros Koumoutsakos wanted to embark on a career at the United Nations. Today, he is one of the world's…
22.02.2018 Economists cash in on efficient high-performance computing method Ask two economists and you'll get three answers-or so the saying goes. Thankfully, a new method developed by physicists…
21.11.2017 “The Swiss Institute of Particle Physics and CSCS are paving the way for the upcoming computational challenges” For more than ten years, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) has been operating the cluster “Phoenix” for…
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…
18.06.2014 Efficient computing Scientific high-performance computing should become more efficient – this is one of the goals for researchers from ETH…
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.…
09.10.2013 “This decision is a huge success for the HP2C projects” The COSMO model is used by the German Meteorological Service, MeteoSwiss and other institutions as a basis for their…