Slidecasts (part 2) of the presentations at the hpc-ch Forum on cloud computing and virtualisation for HPC. Elasticluster: Automated provisioning of computational clusters in the cloud; Sergio Maffioletti (UZH) Experience with High Performance Computing Applications in the Cloud; Wibke Sudholt (CloudBroker GmbH) Orchestrating large scale executions of scientific applications with GC3Pie; Sergio Maffioletti (University of […]
The slidecasts of the PASC14 conference hosted at ETH Zurich in June 2-3, 2014 are now available. The goal of the conference has been to bringing together all scientists and research groups within these diverse scientific domains to foster interdisciplinary collaborations and to strengthen high-performance computing (HPC) knowledge exchange. Welcome to the conference, Thomas Schulthess […]
CSCS organized last March (24-27 March) a 4-day training course on “Piz Daint”, CSCS hybrid Cray XC30 system. “Piz Daint” has 5.272 compute nodes (with Intel® Xeon® E5-2670 and NVIDIA® Tesla® K20X) and a peak performance of 7.8 Petaflops. The presentations have being given by experts from Cray, NVIDIA and Allinea. The Cray Programming Environment […]
ISC14 (International Supercomputing Conference) announced on Monday the new TOP500 list, which classifies supercomputers according to their processing power, just this morning. The list ranks Piz Daint of CSCS as the sixth fastest supercomputer in the world and absolute fastest in Europe. The photos here below show the award ceremony with representatives of Cray, ISC/TOP500 and CSCS. […]
An important shift in the provisioning of computing resources happened in 2006 when Amazon started offering cloud computing to external customers as Amazon Web Services (AWS). Since then additional large companies entered the cloud computing market like IBM with the SmartCloud framework in 2011 or Oracle in 2012 with the Oracle Cloud. An enabling technology […]