The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF, Reading, UK) organized from November 1 to 5, 2010 the 14th Workshop on the Use of High Performance Computing (HPC) in Meteorology. The aim of this workshop is to bring together worldwide key players providing meteorological and climate services running numerical models. Some major HPC vendors also […]
The recordings of the last hpc-ch community forum on Parallel file systems for HPC are now online. More than 40 colleagues from all over Switzerland attended the forum. The videos of the 9 presentations give an overview of the state of the art in parallel file systems in Switzerland: The technologies being used, their pros […]
A look to the schedule of the Supercomputing Conference (SC10) in New Orleans (November 13-19, 2010) shows that Switzerland is being represented in panels, doctoral research showcases and as a ACM Gordon Bell Finalist. Will Sawyer (CSCS) will be chair of the technological thrust area Addressing Climate Change Uncertainties. Each year, the SC Technical Program […]
Now hpc-ch is also posting content and news on twitter as hpcch. On twitter we will post links to the articles published on the blog and in addition shorter that could be of interest to the community. You are also invited to participate by retweeting, sending messages to @hpcch or using the tag #hpcch. Start […]
The Grand Challenges in Data-Intensive Discovery conference was be held at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) October 26 – 28, 2010. “Gordon” is a new machine funded by NSF with a 20 M$ grant for supporting data-intensive research applications. The machine will go in production in 3Q2011. The conference inaugurated a small predecessor system […]
