National Supercomputing Center in Sweden uses SGI Altix new complex tasks

Swedish researchers have now the nation’s largest high-performance computer with shared memory architecture. It is a Linux-based supercomputer system SGI Altix 3700 Bx2, equipped with 64 Intel Itanium 2 processors and 512 GB of memory. At the University of Linkoping (LiU) in the National Supercomputing Center (NSC) set up computer platform from SGI (Silicon Graphics [...]


Sweden in the Champions League the use of biomass

“Sweden is one of the best examples that the political will on the order and, when it comes to the rapid and efficient development of biomass energy use,” was CEO of Ernst Scheiber Austrian Biomass Association in early December at a press trip convinced. The excursion “Bio energy: World market versus region,” in the 38 [...]


AKW incident Sweden

Not only of the Temelin nuclear power plant provides headlines. In Sweden, there is an increasing number of accidents and failures of nuclear power plants. Last week came in Forsmark nuclear power plant to a loss of Not stromgeneratoren. Then one of the reactors were shut down. On Wednesday evening, two more nuclear rectors for [...]


Sweden found particular interest

The “resource center” are now in the entire Baltic Sea region. Experiences of the network in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania will be used. The network “resource center” invited to an international workshop. Guests were women from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden and Finland of the project FEM. The focus of attention was on the activities of the [...]


Sweden - Austria - everywhere : Paranoia

A country in paranoia since the murder of the head of government in the 80s and a Serienverge waltiger in the province. All have fear of crime, which in Sweden is less prosperous than anywhere else in Europe. Falling crime figures - aufbauschende media - increasing fear in the population - so the politicians to [...]