CSCS is happy to announce that the Phase C of the Phoenix cluster of CHIPP has being put fully operational this Tuesday. At the same time Phase B has been switched off and is being decommissioned. The cluster Phoenix is being used to analyze as Tier 2 the data being produced by the LHC experiment [...]
Last July CSCS organized a Cray XT5 code porting workshop with representatives of Cray Inc. and of the University of Zurich. Now the different presentation are available online on the multimedia portal of ETH Zurich. Introduction to XT5 (Software, Operating System, Compilers Vectorization), John Levesque, Cray Inc. Compilers, Luiz De Rose; Cray Inc. Introduction to [...]
The second hpc-ch forum on operating systems and installation methods at EPF Lausanne on May 20 has been a great success with more than 35 HPC participants. In the morning we have been welcomed to EPFL by Vittoria Rezzonico (sysadmin and local organizer) and Jean-Claude Berney (director of the IT services). Jean-Claude pointed out the [...]
The HPC Advisory Council awarded CSCS during the closing session at the ISC 2010 conference in Hamburg as organization who demonstrated above and beyond HPC outreach/education. CSCS organized last March the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2010 in Lugano. The workshop has been a great success with more than 100 HPC professionals attending the conference. [...]
Lausanne is for two days the HPC and Grid center of Switzerland. In fact both communities SwiNG and hpc-ch managed to organize two very interesting meetings: May 19th, SwiNG, Scientific Advisory Council 2010 May 20th, hpc-ch, Operating Systems for HPC and Installation Methods We managed to meet for a common dinner in a restaurant downtown [...]
