Insights and News
Insights and News
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Researchers discovered information from under the Sun’s surface about the emergence of solar storms using the LUMI supercomputer
Professor Maarit Korpi-Lagg from Aalto University leads a nine-person multidisciplinary research group. The group numerically verified the existence of a fluctuating dynamo in sun-like conditions during a LUMI pilot project.
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Research group created the largest Finnish language model ever with the LUMI supercomputer
Currently, one of the hottest topics in the field of technology is text-generating AI. A group of researchers from TurkuNLP, University of Turku, created the largest Finnish language model ever with the LUMI supercomputer.
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HPC-Europa3 project enabling cooperation and program development for glaciological community
During the recent years the Horizon 2020 project HPC-Europa3 has been one of the main pillars in a continuous cooperation between the Elmer development team at CSC and groups all over Europe. And this even through the stormy waters of a global pandemic.
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PRACE Autumn School familiarised international students and postdoctoral researchers with modern GPU-accelerated supercomputers
The PRACE Autumn School 2021 brought together undergraduate and graduate students as well as postdoctoral researchers in different disciplines. One of the highlights of the school was the visit to CSC’s data center in Kajaani, the home of one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world: LUMI. It was a unique opportunity for the participants to familiarise themselves with the cutting-edge data infrastructure in the field of HPC.
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Quantum leap requires big jump also in encryption of telecommunications
Tiq toq, tiq toq, the quantum clock is ticking. The internet turned 40 at the beginning of this year. Around the same time, in other places, ideas for a completely new kind of computer - a quantum computer - were being hatched. In the beginning, there were few interconnects between the two, but today these wonders of information technology are intimately entangled.
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LUMI’s first scientific showcases emerging
The European scientific community has been able to utilize LUMI, Europe’s fastest supercomputer, at full scale since December last year. In this post, I will go through some highlights from the early months as well as reveal some upcoming developments of the system.
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Efficient molecular dynamics simulations on LUMI
The main computing power of the LUMI supercomputer comes from its hefty GPU partition, which high performance has already been proven for several use cases, but how does the performance look like for molecular dynamics? Spoiler alert: it's excellent!
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How to solve a jigsaw puzzle with 1.56 billion pieces
Recently, this brute-force nature of docking has been put in jeopardy by the size of available small molecule collections: With modern compound libraries exceeding the billion scale, docking would suddenly take months or years, even with supercomputing resources at one’s disposal. But what if there were a faster way to predict a piece’s fit? This is where machine learning comes in.
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Case Kajaani University of Applied Sciences: CSC's cloud computing supports games development
A student at Kajaani University of Applied Sciences is working on a thesis on the utilisation of GPU computing in photogrammetry-based 3D modelling. Photogrammetry refers to creating 3D models from digital photographs and video image.
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Case WB-Sails & Deltamarin: Using HPC and computational fluid dynamics in ship design
Ship-building sector companies use HPC, computational fluid dynamics and data visualisation open-mindedly to support their production planning.
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Case University of Jyväskylä: Research in gold nanoparticles relies on PRACE computing resources
Professor Hannu Häkkinen and his research group studies the structure and properties of gold and silver nanoparticles and their uses in chemistry. The research helps scientists develop vaccines against the viruses.
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Case Aalto University: CSC services are at the core of fusion energy research
The research group of Professor Taina Kurki-Suonio has utilised CSC's computing capacity, visualisation services and Elmer software in its fusion research.
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