The president of ETH Zurich, Prof. Ralph Eichler invited last Wednesday, June 16 the Swiss parliamentarian to join over lunch to an introduction of ETH Zurcih activities in High Performance Computing. Prof. Thomas Schulthess presented the activities of CSCS and the different elements of the Swiss National Supercomputing strategy (HPCN). Dr. Peter Binder of MeteoSwiss […]
Here is the presentation of Valeri Markushin (PSI) on “Configuration management with puppet and coupling it to kickstart at PSI” he had at the last hpc-ch forum on Operating Systems for HPC and Installation Methods. The goals of this talk are to discuss the OS deployment and management tools used at PSI, to outline main […]
Dorian Krause (USI) presented at the last hpc-ch forum on “Operating Systems for HPC and Installation Methods” about “Experiences with the Rocks Distribution for Cluster Deployment“. Presentation (PDF) »
Here are the slides of Peter Öttl and Fotis Georgatos (CSCS) for their presentation “An overview of operating systems, installation procedures and monitoring at CSCS” for the last hpc-ch forum on Operating Systems for HPC and Installation Methods. Outline: Operating Systems for the Swiss WLCG Tier-2 Installation Methods Chosen Configuration Management Monitoring Tools Slides (PDF) […]
(from ACM TechNew) ETH Zurich scientists working on the FuturIcT project plan to use the world’s largest supercomputers to simulate life on Earth, including the financial system, economies, and whole societies. The ETH researchers, working under the Competence Center for Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems, are analyzing huge amounts of financial data to […]
