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BlogArchive for March, 2010Getting Space for the New CSCS Building in LuganoThursday, March 11th, 2010Work has begun in Cornaredo to host the supercomputers of Swiss National Computing Center (CSCS), which in 2012 will move from Manno. The bulldozers are demolishing the old garage of Public Transport, north of the firehouse, and the construction work will begin this summer.
CSCS evaluated the ease of use of the PGAS programming model for PRACETuesday, March 2nd, 2010The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe’s work package for future petaflop computer technologies beyond 2010 recently assessed 12 prototypes for next-generation computer architectures. The evaluation included full systems, system components, software prototypes, and several research activities.
For example, CSCS evaluated the PGAS programming model using the Cray Compiler Environment for UPC and CAF. CINES and LRZ jointly evaluated a hybrid system containing both thin and fat nodes and compute accelerators within a shared file system. NCF assessed a system of ClearSpeed/PetaPath accelerator boards together with the ClearSpeed programming language. CEA looked at the performance of graphics processing units (GPUs) using CAPS hybrid multicore parallel programming. The CSC studied the maturity of OpenCL and performance improvements for multi-GPU programming on NVIDIA Tesla and AMD Firestream cards. And EPCC evaluated the HARWEST Compiling Environment for developing programs on the FPGA-based Maxwell supercomputer. Agreement between ETH Zurich and USI on Computational SciencesMonday, March 1st, 2010On 22 February, Zurich and Ticino newspapers (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zürcher Landzeitung, La Regione Ticino, Giornale del Popolo) reported that ETH Zurich has concluded an agreement with the Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) on joint professorships – especially with a view to synergies in computational science, engineering and economics as well as with the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS).
ETH Zurich reports on ETH Life the following:
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