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Archive for the ‘Media’ Category
Friday, November 20th, 2009
A team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL’s) Markus Eisenbach and with Prof. Thomas Schulthess was named winner Thursday of the 2009 ACM Gordon Bell Prize, which honors the world’s highest-performing scientific computing applications.
This is the second time in a row that the research team of Prof. Thomas Schulthess wins the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize for supercomputing. The prize has been announced today, November 19 at the SC09 international supercomputing conference in Portland, Oregon.
The application developed by ORNL, Florida State University, and the Institute for Theoretical Physics and Swiss National Supercomputing Center achieved 1.84 thousand trillion calculations per second (1.84 petaflops) using an application that analyzes magnetic systems and, in particular, the effect of temperature on these systems.
Read the official press release on HPCwire »
Paper presented at Supercomputing 2009 »
Tags: CSCS, Gordon Bell Prize, Schulthess
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
The 34th TOP500 List has been released November 17th in Portland, Oregon at the SC09 Conference. Switzerland has been able to improve its general placement in the list of the most powerful supercomputer worldwide.
For the first time since ever Swizerland has been able to place five system in the list with the following LINPACK performance peak:
- Swiss Scientific Computing Center (CSCS) 168,7 TFlops
- ETH Zuerich 51,8 TFlops
- University of Zuerich 49,5 TFlops
- Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne 47,7 TFlops
- Geophysics Company 28,9 TFlops
for a total of 346,8 TFlops. Compared to the number of inhabitants this places at the third position worldwide and as the first in Europe (numbers are Gigaflops pro inhabitant):
- New Zealand 54
- United States 53
- Switzerland 44
- Sweden 32
- Germany 27
- Austria 26
- United Kingdom 25
- Finland 19
- France 18
The good placement of Switzerland is a first result of the additional awareness for HPC and the first results of the implementation of the national HPC strategy (HPCN). Even if the placement is very good we have not to forget that Switzerland has one of the highest density of researchers worldwide at that the country is higly depending on the results of research for its prosperity.
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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 Wep-pages of Flash-Informatique »
Full download Flahs Informatique as pdf »
Tags: CADMOS, EPF Lausanne, Flash Informatique, HPCN, Vittoria Rezzonico
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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
Tags: Climatology, CSCS, HPCN, Krause, Monte Rosa, Schulthess
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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 Read the article on NZZ online
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