A look to the schedule of the Supercomputing Conference (SC10) in New Orleans (November 13-19, 2010) shows that Switzerland is being represented in panels, doctoral research showcases and as a ACM Gordon Bell Finalist. Will Sawyer (CSCS) will be chair of the technological thrust area Addressing Climate Change Uncertainties. Each year, the SC Technical Program [...]
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We are very happy to announce that Empa joined the hpc-ch community as a regular member. Empa is an interdisciplinary research and services institution for material sciences and technology development within the ETH Domain. Empa’s research and development activities are oriented to meeting the requirements of industry and the needs of our society, and link [...]
The second hpc-ch forum on operating systems and installation methods at EPF Lausanne on May 20 has been a great success with more than 35 HPC participants. In the morning we have been welcomed to EPFL by Vittoria Rezzonico (sysadmin and local organizer) and Jean-Claude Berney (director of the IT services). Jean-Claude pointed out the [...]
The new TOP500 list has been announced at ISC’10 conference in Hamburg. The big surprise has been the second classment of Chinese system called Nebulae, build from a Dawning TC3600 Blade system with Intel X5650 processors and NVidia Tesla C2050 GPUs. Switzerland was able to place again 5 HPC systems in this year: From the [...]
