ICT4S is a joint effort of academia, industry, national and international organizations to take stock of the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in energy efficiency and sustainable development. How can we utilize the transformational power of ICT for making our world more sustainable? How can we really use ICT to create more value [...]
Setting the Scope In this forum we would like to discuss the different aspects related to providing an infrastructure for the HPC systems we are operating. In many institutions the factors limiting HPC are not the available personnel or monetary resources but simply the available resources where new systems are to be installed. Providing an [...]
Dear members and guests of the hpc-ch community, We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming hpc-ch forum on Infrastructure for HPC to be held on Thursday, May 24th, 2012 from 10:00 until 17:00, kindly hosted by Empa. Here below you find a description of the forum and a few key questions as guideline [...]
Sustainability is an important not only for ICT in general but also for HPC. Next year Zurich will host an important conference about ICT for Sustainability. If you are interested in contributing to the conference, then now it is time to submit your papers. ICT for sustainability is about utilizing the transformational power of Information [...]
Dr. Daniele Passerone is leading the group of Computational Chemistry in the Nanotech and Surfaces Laboratory at EMPA. At the user day, he presented a poster on “Nanoscience surfaces: from substrate to adsorbate”. Andrey Sheyko, PhD student in the group of Professor Andrew Jackson in the Institute for Geophysics at ETH Zurich presents his poster [...]