19.07.2017 Scientists use "Piz Daint" simulations to track heavy summer precipitation from the Mediterranean Low-pressure weather systems that move northwards in the summer from Italy to central Europe bring with them dreaded…
20.06.2017 Simulating extreme aerodynamics Researchers at Imperial College in London have used “Piz Daint” to simulate with unprecedented accuracy the flow over an…
12.06.2017 Convection-resolving simulation over Europe When the hybrid supercomputer “Piz Daint” came online in 2014, one of the first science projects that it ran was a…
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…
18.05.2017 Using sunlight to produce energy from water Photosynthesis is one of the most common and fundamental life processes on Earth, and its complex sequence of events has…
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…
10.01.2017 High resolution propagation of seismic waves in space and time Researchers have developed a new algorithm for representing wave propagation in a medium. The parallel algorithm running…
07.11.2016 Earth's magnetic field under the "simulation magnifying glass" Earth’s magnetic field has reversed direction hundreds of times in the course of our planet’s history. But the cause of…
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…
27.07.2016 The spleen and its effect on red blood cells The size and shape of red blood cells could be determined by the spleen, or so it would seem from simulations on ‘Piz…
04.07.2016 Can cirrus cloud seeding help to “save” the climate? Researchers at ETH Zurich used ‘Piz Daint’ to simulate how cirrus cloud seeding, a novel geoengineering method, might…
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…
31.05.2016 Simulating chemical evolution with "Piz Daint" Scientists have used ‘Piz Daint’ to simulate crucial steps in the formation of ammonia as a prebiotic molecule. Ammonia…
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…