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The science behind a cycling victory
When Danish cyclist Jonas Vingegaard triumphed in the 2022 edition of the world’s largest cycling event, the Tour de France, supercomputing played a part. Wind tunnel trials helped his Jumbo Visma team optimize aerodynamics.
Mapping Europe’s wind energy resource
In a world craving renewable and zero-carbon energy, the economic and societal importance of wind power has become huge.
Optical fibre: a new way of monitoring earthquakes
A huge network of optical fibre runs underground across Australia, delivering the internet on light pulses. Optical fibre is very sensitive to vibration, making it an option for recording the Earth’s tremors.
Preparing for great strides forward in Oregon tribal connectivity
Link Oregon, is partnering with Oregon tribes, along with the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC), the University of Oregon (UO), and Oregon State University (OSU), to improve internet connectivity for tribal communities in Oregon.
Enabling researchers to reuse sensitive biomedical data
CSC has recently developed new services for sensitive data management for research so that data from more patients can be shared and analysed to fast-track discoveries.
Supercomputing takes cancer research to a new level
While a variety of genetic factors are known to play major roles in relation to cancer, the specific pathways still largely remain to be discovered. This is the main scope of computational biology.
Internet for 700,000 students in Brazil
Students of socioeconomic vulnerability in Brazil will be provided internet access, while many other students will have their existing connections upgraded.
Oman is roaming ahead full speed
Students, researchers, and academics across the sultanate can now use eduroam to connect to the internet.
Applying virtual reality technology to improve body image
Health & Medicine
Neuroscience
DFN (Germany)
EENet of HITSA
GÉANT (Europe)
Jisc (United Kingdom)
RedIRIS (Spain)
RENATER (France)
SINET (Japan)
SURF (Netherlands)
Researchers in the BODYinTRANSIT project are studying how Body Transformation Experiences (BTE), or perceptual illusions of body change, can be engineered, to create the illusion of being something different than what they are in reality.
Connecting South Africa to the CERN physicists
Particle physics research datasets that need to be transported to CERN are often large and can require large amounts of bandwidth for short bursts.
Connecting researchers to the supercomputers at the cornerstone of Australian researchers
AARNet’s partnership with supercomputing centres, universities and research institutes allow researchers to connect to some of the fastest supercomputers in Australia and undertake globally competitive research.
Empowerment through e-learning
Within six weeks after the introduction of COVID-19 lockdowns in March 2020, university education in Sri Lanka returned in a digital format.