Insights and News
Insights and News
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Summer School brings together learners interested in high-performance computing
CSC Summer School in High-Performance Computing was organized for the 13th time in Nuuksio in summer 2023. The number of participants broke all records. The course attracted more than 30 students from all corners of Europe with different educational backgrounds and starting points.
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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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Accelerating the discovery of materials to advance clean energy and zero-emission vehicles
Professor Antti Karttunen and Dr. Kevin Conley from the School of Chemical Engineering at Aalto University, Finland, use LUMI supercomputer in their research, that accelerates the discovery of materials for clean energy and zero-emission vehicles.
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Excitement about supercomputing at the heart of Europe: LUMI consortium event in Brussels on 5 March
“We need to be more encouraged, passionate in Europe, about what we can really do with our supercomputers, and we need to broaden the community,” said Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for digital policy.
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Antti Penttilä studies light scattering in space
University researcher and docent in planetary sciences Antti Penttilä from the University of Helsinki, Finland, uses LUMI to study light scattering in space. The use of the LUMI supercomputer enables the calculation of significantly larger models than before.
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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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Case University of Helsinki: PRACE resources in near-earth space simulation
PRACE resources have been crucial for Minna Palmroth's research group in the near-earth space simulation with the Vlasiator space weather code.
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Case University of Helsinki: Cloud computing enhancing the research of cancer
Lauri Aaltonen, Academic Professor, University of Helsinki is analysing genomes with his team to understand the causes of cancer.
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PRACE – international cooperation and some of the most advanced computing resources in Europe
Finnish researchers can apply for high-performance computing and data management resources and services from PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe).
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