The Visualization/Research & Development Cluster EIGER is a new CSCS facility which extends the current resource portfolio. During the Q2/Q3 2010 it will be fully integrated into the CSCS Supercomputing ecosystem, and will be opened to the swiss scientific user community for hybrid multicore/ multi-GPU computing, visualization, data analysis, and general purpose pre/post processing activities. [...]
The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) will be hosting the following training courses during the months of May and June 2010. We still have some places available in each course so we encourage you to register quickly to benefit from these opportunities. A “Hands-On” Introduction to PETSc (10–11/05/2010) This course provides students with a comprehensive [...]
More than 17 persons attended the presentation and open discussion with Mike Patterson, Senior Power and Thermal Architect at Intel Corporation. Mike has been welcomed at ETH Zurich by Vittoria Rezzonico (hpc-ch and EPF Lausanne). An important message of Mike has been to be consequent in addressing energy issues in the data center. So it [...]
Dear members and guests of the hpc-ch community, We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming hpc-ch forum on Operating Systems for HPC and Installation Methods to be held on Thursday, May 20, 2010 from 10:00 until 17:00, kindly hosted by EPF Lausanne. The hpc-ch meeting will already start on Wednesday, May 19th with [...]
The last issue of the Swiss Engineering STZ journal reports on how metereologists use modern supercomputer for weather forecasts. One article in particular reports on the collaboration between MeteoSwiss and CSCS to provide more accurate weather forecasts for Switzerland. Link to the article on MeteoSwiss and CSSC » The supercomputer used by MeteoSwiss for weather [...]
