17 June 2025
MaX CoE at PASC25 Conference
MaX CoE joined PASC25, where the Project Coordinator, Professor Elisa Molinari, spoke on HPC-driven materials discovery. Molinari's talk highlighted sustainability, open-source tools, and reproducibility as key to advancing scientific and technological innovation.
The PASC25 Conference, a leading event in the high-performance computing (HPC) community, took place from June 16 to 18, 2025, at the FHNW Campus Brugg-Windisch in Switzerland. Co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), this year’s conference focused on the theme “Supercomputing for Sustainable Development.” It explored how HPC contributes to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, with applications in climate modeling, renewable energy, desalination, medical technologies, and more.
MaX Centre of Excellence was represented by the project coordinator, Professor Elisa Molinari (CNR-Nano), who delivered a keynote talk on Monday, June 16. Her presentation, titled “High-Performance Simulation of Matter and Materials,” highlighted the central role of HPC in materials research and discovery. She emphasized how simulation-driven insights are enabling sustainable innovations across various fields, from clean energy and manufacturing to information technologies.
Molinari also underscored the growing impact of data-driven research and first-principles methods, which are now more powerful thanks to advancements in high-performance computing architectures. Drawing on the MaX achievements, she discussed successful case studies and ongoing challenges, as well as the importance of open-source community codes and reproducible workflows promoted by MaX.
The session, chaired by Laura Grigori (PSI/EPFL), showcased how MaX is actively contributing to sustainable science and technology through advanced computational tools.
- More information about the MaX Centre’s work and software can be found at: MaX Lighthouse software.
- More information about the conference can be found at: PASC2025 Conference.
