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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 use of advanced molecular modeling and simulation tools, supported by high performance computing.

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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 from clothing made from synthetic fibres to plastic lenses in glasses. Polymers are formed when small molecules called monomers are linked together to form long chains. […]

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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 low and zero-carbon energy systems, helping different industries to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and meet the targets defined in the Paris agreement. Three main strategic […]

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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 most recent algorithms of deep-learning. We are following a network-based approach to predict new links between virus and their hosts, essential towards the establishment of a […]

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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 N.: CPCA/A2/6046/2020, Keywords Mountain flows; Wind energy; Stratified flows; Forest flows; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Brief description Serra do Perdigão, in Vila Velha de Ródão municipality (Portugal), is comprised […]