HP2C and the Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) are happy to present a talk of Philippe Toint on Cubic regularization algorithm and complexity issues for nonconvex optimization (August 2010).
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HP2C: Talk of Philippe Toint on Cubic Regularization Algorithm and Complexity Issues
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010HP2C: Two Talks of Rupert Klein on Multiple Scales Analyses and Numerics for Atmospheric Flows
Saturday, September 25th, 2010HP2C and the Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) are happy to present two talks of Rupert Klein, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (August 2010).
Multiple scales analyses and numerics for atmospheric flows
Regime(s) of validity of sound-proof models
Call for Presentations and Partecipants: Forum on Parallel File Systems for HPC
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010Dear members and guests of the hpc-ch community,
We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming hpc-ch forum on
Parallel File Systems for HPC
to be held on Thursday, October 28, 2010 from 10:00 until 17:00, kindly hosted by ETH Zurich by the HPC group of Olivier Byrde.
ETH Zurich will present its heterogeneous Brutus cluster (90 TF) and share their experience with the High-Availability Lustre file system (230 TB) attached to that cluster. The attendees will also have the chance to visit the ETH’s main computer room and see the multiple generations of hardware (2004-2010) that compose Brutus.
The goal of this forum is to exchange information about Parallel and Distributed File Systems for HPC. At the end of the day, each participant will have an overview of which systems are used in the other institutions, how they are used, and how easy/difficult they are to install and operate.
New Video Channel “CSCS on CSCS” Opened
Saturday, September 18th, 2010CSCS created a video channel named CSCS on CSCS on the multimedia portal of ETH Zurich. On this channel CSCS will publish videos reporting on the supercomputing centre like interviews with researchers using the supercomputers, videos showing the assembling of supercomputers, promotion videos and much more.
In September 2009 CSCS produced for an open day a series of illustrative video that are now available online. Two videos show for what purpose researchers are using the supercomputer at CSCS (astrophysics and drug design), in three additional videos employees of CSCS explain different aspects of the work being done at the centre.
Have a look (all the movies are in Italian).
L’astrofisica e i supercomputer, Prof. Lucio Mayer, University of Zurich
La metadinamica e le sue applicazioni in drug design, Vittorio Limongelli, ETH Zurich/USI
Il supercalcolo: simulare e visualizzare, Mario Valle, CSCS
I supercalcolatori del CSCS, Hussein Harake, CSCS
Introduzione al CSCS, Michele De Lorenzi, CSCS
Second cabinet of Cray XE6 installed at CSCS
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010On September 2, 2010 the second cabinet of the Cray XE6 arrived and was installed at CSCS (see previous posting). Both cabinets are identical and will be interconnected to build a single large system.
Continuing the tradition of CSCS, the Cray XE6 has been given the name of a Swiss mountain, in this case Palu. The Piz Palü is a mountain in the Bernina Range in the Canton of Graubünden. There are three summits on its ridge, the highest being 3’901 m high.
We should note that this has been the first installation in the world of a Cray XE6. CSCS and selected users have already run first benchmarks on Palu and they have been very promising. Palu will subsequently be made available to all users starting this week.
The second cabinet of Palu has been financed by the Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) and will be used in particular by researchers of the Insitute of Computational Science of Prof. Rolf Krause.
The next two photos show the arrival by truck of the cabinet at CSCS and the installation of the second door with a nice representation of the Piz Palü.
