Nicola Bianchi (CSCS) presents the last supercomputer arrival at CSCS: The Cray XK6 supercomputer which is a trifecta of scalar, network and many-core innovation. It combines Cray´s proven Gemini interconnect, AMD’s leading multi-core scalar processors and NVIDIA´s powerful many-core GPU processors to create a true, productive hybrid supercomputer.
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hpc-ch Forum on GPU – Video on Cray XK6 Overview
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011hpc-ch Forum on GPU – Video on Scheduling GRES resources With SLURM
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011Stephen Trofinoff (CSCS) presents how to schedule GRES resources with SLURM.
hpc-ch Forum on GPU – Video on Installation and Operational Needs of Multi-purpose GPU Clusters
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011CSCS has experience of operating multi-purpose GPU clusters for a diverse project and service portfolio.
Vincenzo Annaloro (CSCS) presents details on system installation and operation for two clusters: a production and experimental testbed that serves as HP2C prototype system and a multi-purpose visualization and GPU development cluster.
hpc-ch Forum on GPU – Video on Multi-resolution flow simulations on multi/many-core architectures
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011While the peak performance and energy efficiency of computing hardware are constantly growing, the development of fast scientific software is experiencing an important paradigm shift. Efficient algorithm implementations face rigid constraints about memory layouts, access patterns and FLOP/Byte ratios.
Diego Rossinelli (ETH Zurich) discusses the design of wavelet-based adaptive solvers for compressible flow simulations that run effectively on multi- and many-core architectures.
hpc-ch Forum on GPU – Video on “Enhancing” commercial software
Monday, November 21st, 2011In this presentation Adrian Ulrich (ETH Zurich) shares his experience with Nvidia CUDA, AMD FireStream and Platform LSF.
