From November 11 - 16, 2018, JARA will once again be a part of the Supercomputing Conference which will take place in Dallas, TX, USA this year. JARA's scientists will present their current research activities, like the project Rhinodiagnost, at the JSC booth. They will also also introduce participants of two workshops to OpenMP and will present a paper at the LLVM-Workhop.
The JARA-HPC Annual Report 2017 provides information about current research projects on the JARA Partition as well as scientific publications. The Annual Report is available for download.
At the Swiss large-scale research facility CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire), scientists were able to detect the decay of the Higgs particle into so-called b quarks for the first time. A CMS detector was used to carry out the investigations, and researchers from the Chair of Experimental Physics III B, headed by JARA-FAME member Prof. Achim Stahl, played a key role in its development.
There are currently great hopes for solid-state batteries. They contain no liquid parts that could leak or catch fire For this reason, they do not require cooling and are considered to be much safer, more reliable, and longer lasting than traditional lithium-ion batteries. Scientists at the Institute of JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Rüdiger A. Eichel have now presented a new concept that allows ten times higher currents during charging and discharging than previously expected. The improvement was achieved by a "clever" choice of materials. All components were made from phosphate compounds, which are well matched both chemically and mechanically.
Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Lippert, head of the Jülich Supercomputing Centre, member of the board of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS), and director of JARA-HPC, was elected Chair of the PRACE Council during the 30th Council meeting in Amsterdam on 18 June 2018.
