Cray has announced the Exascale Research Initiative less than a month after Intel said it was setting up an exascale research center with European partners. Cray’s partnership involves three European institutions, including the University of Edinburgh and the Swiss National Supercomputing Center. The goal of the initiative is to build a supercomputer capable of performing […]
The parlament of Cantone Ticino has voted unanimously today 5 Millions to support the implementation of the High-Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN) strategy. The contribution of Canton Ticino is aimed for the construction of the new CSCS building in Lugano-Cornaredo. CHF 172.5 million are to be invested overall in implementing the HPCN strategy., 70 for […]
ETH Globe – the quarterly magazine of ETH Zurich – is reporting about the computing of the future and HPC (No.4 / November 2009). Within a month both ETH Zurich (ETH Globe) and EPF Lausanne (Flash Informatique) report about HPC developments in Switzerland. “High Performance Computing” systems and supercomputers (HPC) are now a key technology […]
A team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL’s) Markus Eisenbach and with Prof. Thomas Schulthess was named winner Thursday of the 2009 ACM Gordon Bell Prize, which honors the world’s highest-performing scientific computing applications. This is the second time in a row that the research team of Prof. Thomas Schulthess wins the prestigious Gordon […]
CSCS is calling for production projects for 2010 which have to be submitted by November 23rd, 2009. As CSCS annouces, in 2010 there will be a total of approximately 150 million CPU hours for production projects on its HPC systems. Allocations for 2010 will start April 1st, 2010. Projects for 2009 will therefore be extended […]
