hpc-ch is a community linking all HPC service providers in Switzerland. In our four years of existence, we were able to create a vibrant community with a very intense knowledge transfer and a lot of interpersonal contacts. In the last months we were able to extend our community from academia to industry with representatives of [...]
The Human Brain Project, recently awarded a 10 year grant by the EU Commission, will pull together all our existing knowledge about the human brain and to reconstruct the brain, piece by piece, in supercomputer-based models and simulations. In a special session at the 2013 International Supercomputing Conference, scientists working on the Human Brain Project [...]
Meet hpc-ch at the ISC13 conference (booth #747)! Advance registration at reduced rates is now open for the 2013 International Supercomputing Conference. ISC’13 will be held June 16-20 in the historical city of Leipzig. By registering now, ISC’13 attendees can save over 25 percent off the onsite registration rates at the Congress Center Leipzig. Combine [...]
ISC – the largest HPC conference in Europe – just announced that it will be giving the Human Brain project, led by Dr. Henry Markram of EPFL, a permanent platform at ISC to share their latest research findings for the next 10 years. Their first talk “Supercomputing & the Human Brain Project – Following Brain [...]
Daniel Duffy (Lead System Architect) and William Putman (Research Meteorologist) of the NASA Center for Climate Simulation and the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center present the challenges facing global climate modeling today. In particular they discuss the requirements of high resolution modeling: the need for powerful computing resources [...]