The President of ETH Zurich, Ralph Eichler, the ETH Board has appointed Markus Püschel at present Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA, as full Professor of Informatics. Markus Püschel´s research interests combine techniques from mathematics, computer science and engineering. His interdisciplinary research will strengthen cooperation between the Department of Informatics and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS).
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Archive for June, 2010
ETH Board appoints new professor to strengthen the collaboration with CSCS
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010ESC Colloquia “Neubau CSCS in Lugano Cornaredo” online
Thursday, June 24th, 2010The talk of Ladina Gilly on “Neubau CSCS in Lugano Cornaredo” for the Energy Science Colloquia (Energy Science Center, ETH Zurich) is now available online.
New Server Room for the Faculté des Sciences de base at EPFL
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010In the last issue of Flash Informatique Vittoria Rezzonico is describing the new server room for the Faculté des Sciences de Base at EPFL. In this server room are also located several of the HPC systems used at EPFL.
Register to Parallel Programming Workshop at CSCS
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010CSCS invites you to register to a Parallel Programming Workshop to be held in Manno, on 10.-12.08.2010.
Instructors will be Rolf Rabenseifner (HLRS) and Neil Stringfellow (CSCS).
CSCS/ETH Zurich and MeteoSwiss Common Presentation in Bern
Sunday, June 20th, 2010The 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 explained why supercomputer are essential for meteorology (CSCS is running two supercomputers for MeteoSwiss for 72 hours weather forecasts). Dr. Alessandro Curioni of IBM Rüschlikon explained how fast HPC is developing and that it is essential to regularly invest in new HPC systems.
You may read a longer article (in German) on this common presentation on ETH Life »
Dr. Peter Binder of MeteoSwiss (next picture)
A short movie (in Italian, German and French) explaining the importance of HPC for science, industry and society has been especially been produced for this day.
In Italian (and for iPhone »):
In German YouTube » (and for iPhone »)
In French YouTube » (and for iPhone »)
