On 22 February, Zurich and Ticino newspapers (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zürcher Landzeitung, La Regione Ticino, Giornale del Popolo) reported that ETH Zurich has concluded an agreement with the Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) on joint professorships – especially with a view to synergies in computational science, engineering and economics as well as with the Swiss […]
With more than 100 registered attendees, the HPC Council Switzerland Workshop (Lugano, March 15-17) is having a great success. Download the latest agenda with the list gold ans silver sponsors: Flyer HPC Council Switzerland Workshop Agenda – Day 1 9:00-9:30 Welcome Session (Gilad Shainer, HPC Advisory Council Chairman) 9:30-9:45 HPC in the Swiss National Supercomputing […]
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 […]
In January 2010 started at CSCS the upgrade of the cluster “Phoenix” that is being used as tier 2 by the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics (CHIPP) in the LHC experiment at CERN. The Swiss commitment in 3 of the 4 large LHC experiments (ATLAS, CMS and LHCb) mandates establishing their own Grid computing infrastructure […]
In a previous blog entry we reported about the Cray XT3, Palu, being decommissioned at CSCS. In the meantime we were able to give a new home to the three of the six computing racks at ENTER, the Museum for Computer and Technology close to Solothurn. Das ENTER ist das einzige Museum in der Schweiz, […]
