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Cray XE6 Introduction Course at CSCS – Interlagos/Gemini

Friday, October 28th, 2011

CSCS is pleased to announce the course

Monte Rosa Upgrade: Introduction Course – Interlagos/Gemini”
on November 7-9, 2011 at CSCS Manno.

The introduction course will provide both existing and new users an introduction to the upgraded “Monte Rosa” system including detailed information regarding the Cray XE6 hardware, software architectures and programming environments.

The course will be given by Luiz DeRose, Roberto Ansaloni, and Heidi Poxon from Cray.

The course syllabus is available on our webpage under “Events” »

The registration is now opened on the same webage as well.
The deadline for registration is November 2, 2011.

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Video: First Cray XK6 Worldwide Just Powered Up at CSCS

Sunday, October 23rd, 2011

Engineers of Cray are powering up for the first time worldwide a Cray XK6 delivered to a customer. CSCS was the first supercomputing centre signing a contract with Cray for the delivery of a Cray XK6 with 2816 cores, 176 GPU for a total of 137 TF. CSCS nicknamed the supercomputer “Tödi” after the name of a Swiss mountain.

The Cray XK6 supercomputer combines Cray´s Gemini interconnect, AMD’s multi-core scalar processors and NVIDIA´s many-core GPU processors. Shortly the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) signed a contract with Cray to upgrade the Cray XT5 supercomputer nicknamed “Jaguar” to a new Cray XK6 supercomputer, which will be nicknamed “Titan.” When completed, the Titan system will have a peak performance between 10 and 20 PF.

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AMD Ships First “Bulldozer” Processors to CSCS and other High End Installations

Friday, September 9th, 2011

This week AMD announced the shipment of the first processors based on its new x86 “Bulldozer” architecture to CSCS and other supercomputer centers. The processors will be used to upgrade the Monte Rosa supercomputer from a Cray XT5 to a Cray XE6 in October.

AMD announced on his web pages that “The first parts off the line were 16-core ‘Interlagos’ parts. We expect to be launching ‘Interlagos’ in Q4, a little later than we had hoped, but still in time for server deployments in 2011.”

Cray announced that a number of customers with Cray XE6 supercomputers will update their systems with Interlagos processors. The processors in the picture above are most likely destined for one of those massive systems that will be used for supercomputing tasks like weather modeling or energy research. Such customers as CSCS – the Swiss National Supercomputer Center, and the University of Edinburgh have all signed up to upgrade their Cray XE6 supercomputers for their research needs.

Here, KY Wong (left) and Marshall Kwait (right) pass the first set of Interlagos processors to Joe Fitzgerald of Cray.

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Cray XMT “Matterhorn” Up and Running at CSCS

Sunday, July 17th, 2011

CSCS is happy to announce that the next-generation Cray XMT has been delivered and assembled. During the acceptance tests CSCS were able to reproduce the numbers submitted to the Graph500 last month.

The Cray XMT supercomputer is named “Matterhorn” after the very famous Swiss mountain and it is now ready to be used.

For detailed description of Matterhorn please refer to the following documentation (PDF) »

Have a look at the delivery and assembling of the new system:

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Interview with James Maltby about the new Cray XMT to be installed at CSCS

Friday, June 24th, 2011

CSCS will install by the end of June, 2011 a new Cray XMT.

James Maltby of Cray presents the new supercomputer and its new possible applications for science and industry. James explains how easy it is program this supercomputer supporting massive hyperthreading.

Have a look!

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