Insights and News
Insights and News
We here at CSC follow phenomena, trends, breakthroughs and pioneering efforts that affect our field. We are active participants in social debate and strive to influence national and international operating conditions in an effort to support our customers' success.Content with Viewpoints .
Gold nanoclusters for cancer nanomedicine
Gold nanoclusters can deliver drugs precisely to cancer cells without damaging healthy tissues. Using atomistic molecular dynamics simulations, researchers at the University of Jyväskylä Nanoscience Centre showed that the ratio of cancer-sensing and drug molecules is a critical parameter in optimizing the properties of gold clusters to maximize the probability of cluster adhesion to the surface of cancer cells.
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High-Performance Computing yesterday, today and tomorrow - interview with HPC Specialist Dr. Jussi Enkovaara
We had an excellent opportunity to interview Jussi Enkovaara, one of the experienced tutors of the course PRACE Autumn School: Harnessing EuroHPC Flagship Supercomputers. Currently, he works as HPC Specialist (high-performance computing) at CSC – IT Center for Science and has been developing software for supercomputers since 2005.
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Supercomputer Puhti vs. the Coronavirus: Review of CSC COVID-19 Fast Track Outcome
A total of 15 research projects were selected for the COVID-19 fast track. These projects have investigated the airborne transmission of coronavirus, searched for ways to inhibit virus replication, studied potential drug molecules and their structure-guided optimization, screened for potential drug candidates, studied virus mutations and identified virus variants through sequencing. Almost all of the thousands of coronaviruses detected from Finnish patients have been classified on Puhti supercomputer.
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Topological superconductor – new building block for qubits
A team of theoretical and experimental physicists at Aalto University and Tampere University have designed a new ultra-thin material that they have used to create elusive quantum states. Called one-dimensional Majorana zero energy modes, these quantum states could have a huge impact for quantum computing.
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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 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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