ETH Life is reporting today on the Workshop on Large-Scale Data Analysis organized by CSCS. More than 50 representatives from Swiss Universities attained the workshop where Shoaib Mufti (Cray) presented the Cray XMT2 Architecture and Ruediger Wolff (SGI) introduced to the Altix UV for data-intensive applications architecture. «Viele Wissenschaftler nutzen Supercomputer zur Simulation und Darstellung […]
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. today announced that the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Manno, Switzerland has awarded a contract to Cray to acquire a next-generation Cray XMT supercomputer. The announcement, which is being made in conjunction with a CSCS-hosted workshop focused on large-scale data analysis, marks Cray’s first order for the Company’s next-generation […]
This is the second part of the posting on the SC10 Report on Climate Thrust Area by Will Sawyer. Community Climate Model Development In a masterworks talk, Ricky Rood (professor at Univ. of Michigan) insisted climate projections offer an historic opportunity: for the first time we have a glimpse into the future and can potentially […]
On February 3rd, 2011 ETH Zurich and Implenia Impresa Generale SA are pleased to celebrate with the authorities the “Roofing Ceremony” for the new Swiss Supercomputing Centre in Lugano. This is a party that is traditionally thrown for the workers to celebrate reaching and completing the roof of a new construction. A successful roofing ceremony […]
The short series of reports from the SC11 conference closes with two posting from our colleague Will Sawyer (CSCS) on the Climate Thrust Area. The climate thrust area had a significant presence at the conference. The basic program consisted of one plenary talk, four masterworks presentations, one BoF session, two panels and a number of […]
