01.04.2019 “Piz Daint” takes on Tier 2 function in Worldwide LHC Computing Grid In the future, the “Piz Daint” supercomputer will handle part of the analysis of data generated by the experiments...
04.03.2019 New simulation methods to visualise quantum effects in superfluid fermions What exactly happens inside neutron stars – the final stage of a giant star – is subject to speculation. In terms of...
19.11.2018 Encouraging prospects for moon hunters Astrophysicists of the University of Zürich and ETH Zürich show how the icy moons of Uranus were born. Their result...
03.07.2018 Quantum chromodynamics for everybody PASC18 conference in Basel presented an interdisciplinary dialogue between ETH professor Petros Koumoutsakos and...
25.05.2018 Simulations for InSight Mars mission On 5 May, a rocket launched the InSight lander on its journey to Mars. On board: a seismometer to investigate the...
28.02.2018 Teaching quantum physics to a computer An international collaboration led by ETH physicists has used machine learning on "Piz Daint" to teach the CSCS-...
09.10.2017 With help of "Piz Daint" supercomputer towards solving the proton spin puzzle Scientists in a research group led by Constantia Alexandrou, Professor of physics at the University of Cyprus and the...
08.06.2017 Ground-breaking simulation for researching the "dark" Cosmos For the first time, scientists from the University of Zurich have succeeded in carrying out a cosmological simulation...
12.04.2017 A lifelong fascination with planets Watching Star Trek as a child first inspired Judit Szulágyi’s fascination with planets and galaxies. Today Forbes ranks...
27.10.2016 How planets like Jupiter form Young giant planets are born from gas and dust. Researchers at ETH Zürich and the Universities of Zürich and Bern...
24.06.2016 Supercomputers on the trail of dark matter Particle physicists using the CSCS supercomputer ‘Piz Daint’ have determined what is known as the scalar quark content...
09.03.2016 Atomic Vibrations in Nanomaterials Researchers at ETH have shown for the first time what happens to atomic vibrations when materials are nanosized and how...
08.03.2016 More realistic simulation of the evolution of cosmic structures Cosmologists at the University of Geneva are the first to simulate the structure of the universe in a way that...
01.02.2016 Switching light with a single silver atom Researchers working under Juerg Leuthold, Professor of Photonics and Communications at ETH Zurich, have created the...
26.11.2015 Surprising discovery of new particle Studying peculiar properties of a long known metallic material researchers have chanced upon a new particle. It is...
25.11.2015 Aneesur Rahman Prize for ETH-Zurich professor Matthias Troyer Matthias Troyer, a professor of computational physics at ETH Zurich, has received the Aneesur Rahman Prize 2016 for...
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...
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...
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...
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...
13.09.2013 Stelle, galassie e bytes: supercalcolatori come laboratori virtuali per l’astrofisica Il 10 settembre 2013, il CSCS ha collaborato all'organizzazione della conferenza aperta al pubblico su "Stelle, galassie...
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...
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...
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...
12.01.2012 Eliminating errors in quantum computing Quantum computers, should they be realized one day, will inevitably make errors. Therefore, they need special error...
13.06.2011 First glimpse into birth of the Milky Way For almost 20 years astrophysicists have been trying to recreate the formation of spiral galaxies such as our Milky Way...
01.06.2011 Will Quantum Knowledge Cool Supercomputers? Whether data is processed or deleted in computers, both consume energy. The energy is released as heat. A study has now...
