On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM join us at ISC13 for the BoF session 22 on High Performance Communications for High Performance Computing The BoF will be introduced and moderated by Michele De Lorenzi (CSCS), Angela Detjen (CSCS), Helen Gardiner (Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative), Nages Sieslack (Prometeus), and Jack Wells [...]
Neuroscience to Benefit from Hybrid Supercomputer Memory To handle large amounts of data from detailed brain models, IBM, EPF Lausanne, and ETH Zurich are collaborating on a new hybrid memory strategy for supercomputers. This will help the Blue Brain Project and the Human Brain Project achieve their goals. June 12, 2013 – by EPF Lausanne, [...]
by Julie Lynton On Tuesday June 18, a session on “Supercomputing & Human Brain Project – Following Brain Research & ICT on 10-Year Quest” will be held in Leipzig, Germany at the ISC’13. According to the ISC website, the session will be the first of a yearly series dedicating to the Human Brain Project, “presenting [...]
CSCS and hpc-ch organized together with Mellanox Training Center a two day introduction course to Infiniband for Sysadmins. 25 sysadmins from different Swiss universities and industry participated to the course. We asked some of the participants about their impressions. Michael Rolli, University of Bern: “[The course was] very fruitful actually. I learned a lot of [...]
