Archive for October, 2009

Call for presentations and participation to the first meeting of hpc-ch (December 3th, 2009)

Friday, October 30th, 2009

The hpc-ch community will meet for the first time at the University of Zurich on December 3th, 2009 (10:30 until 16:30). The goal is to get an overview of the HPC activities an infrastructure of each member.

In addition the organization and the next steps of the community will be discussed.

All representatives of Swiss universities providing HPC services are kindly invited to participate to the meeting and also to present their infrastructure.

We are very happy to be guest of University of Zurich which is investing a lot of energy in HPC. So we will have the possibility to visit their HPC infrastructure and have a closer look to Schrödinger, their newest Sun supercomputer.

The forum will be hosted by the University of Zurich, which is running Schrödinger

The forum will be hosted by the University of Zurich, which is running Schrödinger

For registration (which is mandatory) send please an e-mail to delorenzi@cscs.ch.

Additional information on the forum »

Flash-Informatique of EPF: Special number on HPC

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

EPF Lausanne is dedicating a whole number of its inhouse journal “Flash-Informatique” to High Performance Computing (No. 8 / 2009, 64 pages).

The editorial is by Vittoria Rezzonico. Here is a selection of articles:

  • Le projet CADMOS
    par Giorgio MARGARITONDO
  • Les clusters de calcul expérimentaux du Domaine IT
    par Pascal JERMINI
  • Monte Rosa au CSCS – Des nouveaux sommets pour le Calcul Haute Performance en Suisse
    par Michele DE LORENZI
  • Nom de code Fermi
    par Francis LAPIQUE
  • Nouveau Blue Gene/P – l’ordinateur le plus rapide de l’ouest
    par Christian CLÉMENÇON, Pascal JERMINI
  • Nouveau paradigme du nuage de calcul
    par Anastasia AILAMAKI, Debabrata DASH, Verena KANTERE
  • Number crunching sur les clusters de l’EPFL
    par Arjen LENSTRA, Joppe BOS, Thorsten KLEINJUNG, Marcelo KAIHARA, Dag Arne OSVIK
  • Simulation numérique & HPC
    par Guillaume JOUVET, Gilles STEINER
Flash-Informatique

Flash-Informatique

Wep-pages of Flash-Informatique »

Full download Flahs Informatique as pdf »

24heures and Tribune de Genève report on CADMOS

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

The newspapers 24heures and Tribune de Genève report on the HPC activities in the “arc lémanique” region. In the full size article printed in the newspapers, CADMOS is mentioned to be one of the national nodes of the Swiss National HPC Strategy (HPCN) being implemented.

L’union Vaud-Genève passe par un superordinateur installé à l’EPFL
INNOVATION | Avec la bénédiction des deux cantons, EPFL, UNIL et UNIGE ouvrent un Centre lémanique de calcul à haute performance. Et mettent en service un supercalculateur d’une puissance inédite en Romandie. Importantes applications et retombées en vue.

Article Tribune de Genève

Article Tribune de Genève

Read the article on 24heures

Read the article on Tribune de Genève

Swiss TV (SF1 10vor10) reports about CSCS and HPCN strategy

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

On October 20, 2009 the Swiss TV reported on the late news trasmission 10vor10 about the new Supercomputer installed at CSCS and the Swiss National HPC strategy (HPCN).

Neuer Supercomputer in Lugano
In Manno bei Lugano steht das Rechenzentrum der ETH Zürich. Seit ein paar Wochen steht dort der neuste Supercomputer der Schweiz, der drittschnellste von ganz Europa. Dieser Grossrechner verarbeitet riesige Datenmengen für die Forschung und Industrie. In ein paar Wochen wird er offiziell eingeweiht.

Have a look to the broadcast:

SF Videoportal 10vor10

SF Videoportal 10vor10

NZZ reports about HPC in Switzerland

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

In a full page article on Wednesday, October 14, 2009, Stefan Betschon reports on NZZ about the N ational Swiss HPC Initiative (HPCN). In the article “Mächting rauschen die Ventilatoren” is explained why Switzerland needs an “ecological system”  of supercomputers: mid-sized HPC systems in the universities and one larger at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre at CSCS.

Prof. Daniel Wyler, initiator of Schrödinger, the newst HPC system of Unversity of Zurich and Prof. Thomas Schulthess, director of CSCS are interviewed.

NZZ online HCPN

NZZ online HCPN

Read the article on NZZ online