The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe’s work package for future petaflop computer technologies beyond 2010 recently assessed 12 prototypes for next-generation computer architectures. The evaluation included full systems, system components, software prototypes, and several research activities. For example, CSCS evaluated the PGAS programming model using the Cray Compiler Environment for UPC and CAF. CINES [...]
Prof. Thomas Schulthess presented the HP2C initiative at the First Workshop of the Hybrid Multicore Consortium in San Francisco (January, January 20, 2010). Have a look to the different presentations of the consortium members and in particular to the presentation of HP2C by Schulthess. As stated in the presentation, the overarching goal of HP2C is [...]
University of Zurich and Intel commonly announced a case study for the use of Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 and 5400 series for Schrödiger, the new Sun HPC system of the university. The University has been at the forefront of scientific research for many years and relies heavily on its HPC cluster to underpin complex calculations [...]
The first 8 projects to be supported by HP2C have been accepted. A decision about 4 additional projects is expected in the next weeks. In December 2009, the steering committee of HP2C selected the following 8 projects to be supported: Advanced Gyrokinetic – Advanced gyrokinetic numerical simulations of turbulence in fusion plasmas; Prof. Laurent Villard, [...]
As announced in a previous posting, the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2010 is going to take place in Lugano, 15-17 March, 2010. The 3-day conference is free for attendees and we already have registrants from both the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre CSCS and several other universities in Switzerland, Italy, and more. Scope The workshop [...]
