The PSI Center for Scientific Computing, Theory and Data links new opportunities of computational materials modelling and data science with PSI’s unique large research facilities.
Scientific Highlights & News
MADICES Conference at PSI
The MADICES 3 workshop was about bringing representatives from the open research data (ORD) community, including research data management (RDM) platform developers/maintainers, ontology/semantics experts, those leveraging AI/LLM for RDM tasks, and FAIR principles advocators together to discuss (and implement solutions for) the problems hindering the adoption of ORD and FAIR principles and practices in the sciences.
HPCP Summer School FHNW/PSI
The institute for Data Science of the FHNW in Brugg - Windisch and AWI department of PSI held a joint course on high performance computing. The course addressed computer science students of FHNW and interested individuals at PSI. Two full days at the FHNW (with Apero) were followed by two full days at PSI using Merlin6 (with tour).
Congratulations to Sonali for winning the ACM student research competition !
Congratulations to Sonali for winning the ACM student research competition that took place at PASC 2025 in Brugg as part of the SIGHPC ACM SIG conference
The life of the Center
CSD Science Day 2025
The CSD Science Day retreat with 100 participants was an exceptional experience, marked by a wealth of insightful contributions on Artificial Intelligence. The event included a series of thought presentations, exploring the latest trends and innovations in AI. A particularly engaging panel discussion provided an opportunity for deeper dialogue on key topics, offering diverse perspectives and stimulating discussions among the participants.
LSM Retreat
The LSM carried out a scientific retreat, where students and young researchers presented their work. There was also a panel discussion on energy consumption in High Performance Computing (HPC) that involved the wohle audience.
IT Science Retreat/AWI New Year's Event
The day started with the IT Science retreat for group leaders and was an enriching experience that fostered both professional growth and personal connections. It took place in the Kraftwerk location in Zurich.
Publications
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Ničeno B
A three dimensional, finite volume method for incompressible navier stokes equations on unstructured, staggered grids
In: Wesseling P, Onãte E, Périaux J, eds. Proceedings: Egmond aan Zee, the Netherlands, 5 - 8 September 2006. Vol. 4. European conference on computational fluid dynamics, ECCOMAS CFD. Delft: TU Delft; 2006:(20 pp.).
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Al Haddad A, Sarracini A, Schnorr K, Knopp G, Krempasky J, Arrell C, et al.
High magnification optical imaging systems for the characterization of soft X-ray focii
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 2025; 32(6): 1479-1490. https://doi.org/10.1107/S160057752500774X
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Fatouros M, Feichtinger D, Lange C, Blomer J, Thundiyil A, Völkl V
Efficient and fast container execution using image snapshotters
In: Szumlak T, Rachwal B, Dziurda A, Schulz M, vom Bruch D, Ellis KV, et al., eds. 27th international conference on computing in high energy and nuclear physics (CHEP 2024). Vol. 337. EPJ Web of Conferences. Les Ulis Cedex A: EDP Sciences; 2025:01197 (6 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202533701197
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