Robert (Bob) Techentin is Principal Software Engineer in the Special Purpose Processor Development Group at Mayo Foundation (Rochester, Minnesota). Robert is one of the first users of the new Cray XMT supercomputer specially designed to analyze large amounts of data. The Mayo Clinic is a large clinical practice for medicine and is specialized on medical […]
Interview at SC11 with Ulrich Schaettler of DWD
Ulrich Schättler is working for Germany’s National Meteorological Service, the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD). He started at DWD as software engineer. Years ago he has been asked to parallelize the weather forecast model on distributed memory computers. Since then he is getting involved in weather forecasting and operational forecasting. In his actual function he is responsible […]
Interview at SC11 with David Cremese – IBM Deep Computing Sales Manager
At SC11 David Cremese (IBM Switzerland & Austria) visited the hpc-ch booth. As deep computing sales manager David is also responsible for the Swiss universities and research centers represented at the hpc-ch booth. In the interview David tells us about his function at IBM and what makes Switzerland an interesting market for HPC. He also […]
hpc-ch Forum on GPU – Video on Cray XK6 Overview
Nicola Bianchi (CSCS) presents the last supercomputer arrival at CSCS: The Cray XK6 supercomputer which is a trifecta of scalar, network and many-core innovation. It combines Cray’s proven Gemini interconnect, AMD’s leading multi-core scalar processors and NVIDIA’s powerful many-core GPU processors to create a true, productive hybrid supercomputer. Download the slides of the presentation (PDF) […]
hpc-ch Forum on GPU – Video on Scheduling GRES resources With SLURM
Stephen Trofinoff (CSCS) presents how to schedule GRES resources with SLURM. Download the slides of the presentation (PDF) »