Scientific highlights 2019

Robust Extraction and Simplification of 2D Tensor Field Topology

Research focus area – Topological methods for dynamical data
Application – Materials for the future

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Selection Concepts for Complex Molecular Structures

Research focus area – Multi-scale visualization
Application – Molecular dynamics simulations for conformation analysis

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Inviwo – An open-source Visualization System with Usage Abstraction Levels

Inviwo is a software framework for rapid prototyping visualizations. It builds the basis for the development of novel visualization research and teaching

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Distributed Percolation Analysis for Turbulent Flows

Turbulent flow analysis plays a crucial role in many domains e.g. design of fuel-efficient cars and is an active research area primarily addressed through direct numerical simulations (DNS) of the Navier-Stokes equations.

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Assessing the Performance Improvements of new Features in CUDA Unified Memory

Recently, leadership supercomputers are becoming increasingly heterogeneous. For instance, the two fastest supercomputers in the world, Summit and Sierra, are both equipped with Nvidia V100 GPUs for accelerating workloads.

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Emerging Floating-Point Formats for HPC

Floating-point operations are indispensable for many scientific applications. Their precision formats can significantly impact the power, energy consumption, memory footprint, performance, and accuracy

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AMR for Nek5000

When we study turbulent chaotic flows in complicated geometries our experience could not be sufficient to suggest where a more refined mesh is required.

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ABL: LES Workshop – May 2019

A series of presentations were given over a span of two days to identify the state-of-the-art of large- eddy simulations (LES)

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Ensemble parallelism in GROMACS

Scaling individual atomistic simulations of bio-molecules is strong scaling problem, as the molecules have fixed size.

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Developed methods for discovering cause and effect from medical data

Reasoning about cause and effect is an important aspect of human intelligence, and would thus constitute a valuable part of a medical diagnostics system.

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Pioneered the use of recurrent neural networks for temporal predictions in turbulent flows

SeRC researchers have assessed the prediction capabilities of long-short-term memory (LSTM) neural networks

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Artificial intelligence for diagnosis and grading of prostate cancer in biopsies

We published an article entitled “Artificial intelligence for diagnosis and grading of prostate cancer in biopsies: a population-based, diagnostic study” in Lancet Oncology (https://doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(19)30738-7; impact factor=35).

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Ontologies for the materials science domain

Ontologies standardize terminology in a domain and are a basis for semantically enriching data, integration of data from different databases, and reasoning over the data. They deal with the big data issues of Variety, Variability, and Veracity.

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VeloxChem: Enabling Quantum Molecular Modeling in High-Performance Computing Environments

An open-source program named VeloxChem has been developed for the calculation of electronic real and complex linear response functions at the levels of Hartree–Fock and Kohn– Sham density functional theories.

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Stabilization of point-defect spin qubits by quantum wells

Defect-based quantum systems in wide bandgap semiconductors are strong candidates for scalable quantum-information technologies.

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Synaptic theory of working memory explains most recent experimental findings about neural correlates of working memory

Our spiking neural network attractor memory model accounting for a synaptic theory of working memory has been validated using experimental data to explain the most recent observations about bursty nature of neuronal spiking as well as gamma- and beta-band oscillations of field potentials.

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Predicting regional vulnerability in the brain using dynamic modeling of resting-state fMRI data

A new macroscopic computational model of brain oscillations in resting-state fMRI data was developed and evaluated. Results show that the effect of local lesions can be captured and studied by making regional changes in oscillation dynamics.

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Adenylyl cyclase 5 in striatal neurons confers the ability to detect coincident neuromodulatory signals

We have demonstrated that molecular-level simulations can inform subcellular models of synaptic plasticity. Several computational tools, from molecular dynamics and Brownian dynamics simulations to bioinformatics approaches, were combined to constrain a kinetic model of the adenylyl cyclase type 5 (AC5)-dependent signaling system in the striatum.

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