August 23rd, 2010
The University of Zurich is looking for
Programmer or System Engineer
with emphasis on High Performance Computing
Immediate employment or by arrangement. This is a 100% post.
As a part of its high–end computing and networking strategy, the University of Zürich has for some time had a number of high-performance computer clusters in operation. As of mid-2009, the facultiy of mathematics and natural science, together with IT Services, took a new 50 TFlop Linux-Cluster from SUN into service. The position is open in the HPC team of the university.
For additional information on the opening, have a look at
http://www.id.uzh.ch/index/100802-HPCN-EN.pdf
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August 19th, 2010
The HPC Advisory Council, a leading worldwide organization for high-performance computing research, development, outreach and education, announced the formation of its regional Centers of Excellence, broadening the scope and mission of the Council’s programs throughout the world. The HPC Advisory Council Centers of Excellence will provide local support for the HPC Advisory Council’s programs, local workshops and conferences, as well as host local computing centers that can be used to extend such activities.
CSCS has been appointed as the first Center of Excellence in Europe. “One of the HPC Advisory Council’s main activities is community and education outreach, in particular, through enhancing the HPC knowledge-base around the world and exploring future solutions,” said Gilad Shainer, chairman of the HPC Advisory Council. “The HPC Advisory Council Centers of Excellence are located worldwide and will extend the activities of the council into local areas and focus on the regional needs for furthering our HPC outreach activities.”
“We are pleased to be named as one the inaugural HPC Advisory Council’s Centers of Excellence, covering HPC research, outreach and educational activities within Europe,” said Hussein Nasser El-Harake at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre who serves as the Director of the HPC Advisory Council Center of Excellence in Switzerland. “As part of the HPC Advisory Council’s Center of Excellence, we look forward to advancing awareness of the beneficial capabilities of HPC to new users.”
For more information about the HPC Advisory Council, please visit www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com.
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August 18th, 2010
In the next days and weeks the HP2C consortium is organizing different interesting talks at USI and CSCS:
Wednesday 18 August 2010 14:00 - Wednesday 25 August 2010 - 14:00
Multiple scales analyses and numerics for atmospheric flows
hosted by Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)
Thursday 19 August 2010, 14:00 - 16:00
Cubic regularization algorithm and complexity issues for nonconvex optimization
hosted by Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)
Wednesday 8 September 2010, 13:00 - 15:00
Extreme Performance Engineering: Petascale and Heterogeneous Systems
hosted by CSCS
You are cordially invited to participate to these talks.
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August 15th, 2010
SUNNYVALE, CA. and LUGANO, SWITZERLAND – Aug. 9, 2010 – The HPC Advisory Council, a leading worldwide organization for high-performance computing research, development, outreach and education, today announced a Award program that will be accepting research proposals for advanced research in the subject area of high-performance computing. Twice a year, the HPC Advisory Council will select worthy proposals allowing winners to benefit from a range of the council’s resources and events, including the opportunity to present their final research results to a wider audience.
One of the HPC Advisory Council’s main activities is community and education outreach. The University Award program is an outgrowth of this, and is intended to enhance students’ computing knowledge-base as early as possible.
“HPC is critically important to our economy and future, and its role is growing both in research and industry,” said Gilad Shainer, chairman of the HPC Advisory Council. “The University Award program is part of our ongoing effort to encourage and provide incentives for HPC education and advancement. We look forward to reviewing proposals, and working with the winners to highlight their research and further advances in HPC technology and education.”
“This is an excellent opportunity for students around the world to bring their research to life and highlight the end results to the HPC community,” said Hussein Nasser El-Harake at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre CSCS who serves as the Director of the HPC Advisory Council Center of Excellence in Switzerland. “As part of the HPC Advisory Council’s award submission review team, we look forward to reviewing what students have planned for utilizing the performance power of clusters to solve interesting and important problems.”
Winners will be provided with the following:
- Exclusive computation time on the HPC Advisory Council’s Compute Center
- Invitation to present the research results at one of the HPC Advisory Council’s worldwide workshops, including sponsorship of travel expenses (according to the Council Award Program rules)
- Publication of the research results on the HPC Advisory Council website and related publications
- Publication of the research results and a demonstration, if applicable, within the HPC Advisory Council world-wide technology demonstration activities
Proposals for the 2011 HPC Advisory Council University Award Program can be submitted from August 1, 2010 through October 30, 2010 at the HPC Advisory Council website. The selected proposal(s) will be determined by November 15th and the winner(s) will be notified.
For more information and registration, please visit the HPC Advisory Council website.
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August 6th, 2010
CSCS, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, is pleased to announce the successful installation of an early-release version of the new Cray XE6 supercomputing architecture manufactured by Cray Inc.
(Cross Posting from the CSCS news page)
The single cabinet, 20 blade system, contains 160 compute sockets and uses the new 2.1GHz, 12-core AMD Opteron (aka Magny-Cours) CPUs for a total of 1920 compute cores. The machine, which has been named Piz Palu, has a theoretical peak performance of 16TFlop/s and 2.5 Terabytes of memory. Furthermore the machine contains Cray’s next generation interconnect network, named Gemini, which promises increased performance and fault tolerance over the previous generation SeaStar technology. Moreover the Gemini interconnect promises better support for Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) languages such as Co-array Fortran (CAF) and Unified Parallel C (UPC). This Cray XE6 system is part of a joint collaboration between Cray and CSCS, and will enable CSCS and its user community to undertake testing and early familiarization with Cray’s next generation hardware and software technologies.
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