Category: Use cases
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AI-based River Discharge Forecasting
River flow forecasting with AI: UA dissertation that uses HPC to optimize models, addressing climate change and improving accessibility to hydrological data.
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Empowering Students in Machine Learning and Data Science with Python
A 24-hour course brought together more than 30 students from various academic backgrounds, offering hands-on experience with popular tools such as Python, PyTorch, Pandas, Matplotlib and Jupyter Notebooks.
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Language Driven Image Design with Diffusion
Image editing through requests expressed in natural language
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Molecular Motors in Virtual Isolation: Project MiCRoARTiS
Researchers at the University of Coimbra are developing new strategies to observe the structural evolution of highly functional molecules using high resolution rotational spectroscopy and quantum chemistry calculations in tandem.
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A New Generation of String Simulations
Studying cosmic strings is beneficial, for example, for predicting future cosmic events. This requires high-resolution simulations. One of the biggest problems with these simulations is their resolution and accuracy. But a team of Portuguese researchers from the University of Porto has set out to find the solution. The computational resources have already allowed them to…
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Bringing innovation to political science research through computing
Portuguese researchers have created a tool that allows online access and research on documents throughout 40 years of Portuguese democracy. The scientific community – and even journalists – have already been recognizing its benefits.
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Exploring the ocean through supercomputing
High-performance computing is helping in high-resolution ocean modeling, providing completely new approaches and perspectives.
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Why can’t we see quarks?
The lattice QCD research group at the University of Coimbra is performing realistic simulations using HPC to better understand the interaction and propagation of particles – quarks and gluons – that have never been observed directly.
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High Performance Computing in Chemical Product Engineering: understanding silica aerogel and carbon nanotube composites (CNT)
The main challenge in producing silica-CNT composites lies in finding the optimal way to bind the silica aerogel particles to the CNTs, such as to maximize the material’s resistance and potentially enhance other properties. This is a type of problem that can be found in the realm of chemical product engineering that calls for the…
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Computing can be the answer to innovate Portugal’s footwear industry
The footwear industry is still very dependent on trial-and-error approaches – especially in designing shoe soles – that take too much time and resources. Now, the industry is starting to use computing to optimize and innovate the process and products.
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Portuguese researchers discovered promising molecules to develop optimized drugs against COVID-19
200 thousand molecules were tested using advanced computing. Researchers found two with good capacity to inhibit the virus and covered them with patents. So far, everything indicates that they are effective in combating new variants.
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Computational and experimental science go together to literally reveal snapshots of the formation and growth of 2D polymers with unprecedent resolution as recently reported in the journal Nature.
Manuel Melle Franco, CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials (University of Aveiro) We can no longer imagine life without polymers. Products made of polymers are all around us, ranging…
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Developing Low and Zero Carbon Solutions using NetMIX technologies
Paula Rodrigues – INESCTEC Project name: Developing Low and Zero Carbon Solutions using NetMIX technologies Project description: The CoLAB Net4CO2 is focused on the development of different solutions for…
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SARS-CoV-2 membrane protein: from genomic data to structural new insights
@MoreiraLAB www.moreiralab.com Our project, VIRUSHOSTAI – DSAIPA/DS/0118/2020, is a good example of the advantage of using High Performance Computing as it involves dynamic simulations of proteins as well the…
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Computational modelling of the atmospheric flow over Serra do Perdigão (Vila Velha de Ródão)
Financing program: Advanced Computing Projects via Advanced Computing Portuguese Network (Projetos de Computação Avançada disponibilizados através dos recursos computacionais da RNCA — Rede Nacional de Computação Avançada (In Portuguese) Project…
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Extrusion Blow Molding Simulator
Topics: Polymer Processing, Computational Rheology, Industrial Process Simulation In our daily life polymeric based soft materials play an indispensable role, being present in a wide variety of products such…
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Assessing the power of Tasks with data dependencies in OMPSS to optimize particle-in-cell simulation
Despite the strong promises of the task-based paradigm, as adopted in parallel programming models such as OpenMP and OmpSs, its effective advantages are far from being well understood when…
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INESC-ID and Intel© have a partnership to collaborate in high-performance computation
The partnership was signed after the development of the CARM technology. INESC-ID from Instituto Superior Técnico collaborates with Intel© since researchers Aleksandar Ilic, Leonel Sousa, and Frederico Pratas developed…
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ContentMAP: Mapping The Mind, the topographical organisation of object knowledge in the brain.
Jorge AlmeidaProAction Lab http://proactionlab.fpce.uc.pt/ Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra Our ability to recognise an object amongst many others is one of the essential…
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Tooling4G – Minimize the Airflow Generated Noise on Automotive HVAC Systems
(Author: J. F. Caseiro, P. Alberto) Technological Center for Mouldmaking Special Tooling and Plastic Industries (CENTIMFE), Marinha-Grande, PortugalLaboratory for Advanced Computing – University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal Description/Scientific objectives…
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High Velocity Water Jets: Combined Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Experimental Approaches to Characterize the Scouring Process
(Author: António Maria de Afonseca Portela Roseira Muralha, LNEC) Description/ Scientific objectives and goals: Dams over the world involve very specific features, namely in what concerns the hydraulic safety…
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Getting ready for the unexpected: searching for new physics phenomena at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
(Author: Nuno Filipe da Silva Fernandes de Castro, LIP) Description/ Scientific objectives and goals: High Energy Physics generates extraordinary amounts of complex data and its full exploitation requires equally…
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High Velocity Water Jets: Combined Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Experimental Approaches to Characterize the Scouring Process
(António Maria de Afonseca Portela Roseira Muralha, LNEC) Description/ Scientific objectives and goals: Dams over the world involve very specific features, namely in what concerns the hydraulic safety appurtenances…