We are happy to announce that University of Lausanne is joining the hpc-ch community as a guest. The university will be represented in the community by Hamid Hussain-Khan of the Centre informatique. The University of Lausanne is running itself only a small HPC system besides the private ones hosted by its research institutes (for this [...]
The first Forum of the hpc-ch community has been a great success with 10 presentations and more than 30 participants. We have been welcomed by the University of Zurich, Christian Bolliger, Alexander Godknecht and the designated vice president for research, Prof. Daniel Wyler. During the lunch break we had a group picture in front of [...]
The Swiss HPC Community demonstrates a large interest for the first Forum of hpc-ch: Thursday, December 3th, from 10:00 until 17:00 University of Zurich, Irchel / Winterthurerstrs. 190, 8057 Zürich in the Building/Room Y10-G-03/04 33 persons from 13 organization will participate to the forum and present in 9 short presentations their HPC organization and infrastructure. [...]
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 [...]
The Swiss hpc-ch delegation did meet at the Supercomputin Conference 2009 in Portland, Oregon. After the initial meeting in Hamburg at ISC this has been rhe first get together. The Swiss representatives can be proud this year to present five systems listed in the top 500 list of the fastest supercomputer systems for a total [...]