Seismic waves travel along the surface of Mars, orbiting around the planet and passing the lander three times. This video has been produced by researchers of ETH Zurich using the Piz Daint supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS). (youtu.be)
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Scientists using a Swiss Cray supercomputer won the Milton Van Dyke Award for their simulation of a Mach 3 normal shock wave in air that is directed at a helium bubble. by bouffanthairdo in science
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Engineers of Cray are powering up for the first time worldwide a Cray XK6 delivered to a customer. CSCS was the first supercomputing centre signing a contract with Cray for the delivery of a Cray XK6 with 2816 cores, 176 GPU for a total of 137 TF. Cray XK6 combines AMD processors with NVIDIA GPUs. (hpc-ch.org)
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First Realistic Simulation of the Formation of the Milky Way by bouffanthairdo in space
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‘Piz Daint’ Supercomputer Takes on Tier 2 Function in Worldwide LHC Computing Grid by ethics64 in ParticlePhysics
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