Dear members and guests of the hpc-ch community, We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming hpc-ch forum on Operating Systems for HPC and Installation Methods to be held on Thursday, May 20, 2010 from 10:00 until 17:00, kindly hosted by EPF Lausanne. The hpc-ch meeting will already start on Wednesday, May 19th with [...]
The last issue of the Swiss Engineering STZ journal reports on how metereologists use modern supercomputer for weather forecasts. One article in particular reports on the collaboration between MeteoSwiss and CSCS to provide more accurate weather forecasts for Switzerland. Link to the article on MeteoSwiss and CSSC » The supercomputer used by MeteoSwiss for weather [...]
SwiNG (the Swiss National Grid Association) is organising the 2nd Swiss Grid School 2010 (SGS’10) – Lugano, 22-24 June 2010. SGS’10 (http://sgs2010.inf.usi.ch/) aims at transferring Grid knowledge to academia, research and industry. This time, the school is particularly targeted also to system administrators. The registration is open, and the following audience is particularly addressed: Graduate [...]
CSCS is happy to announce that Phoenix PhaseC Upgrade passed today the acceptance test. Phoenix is a HPC system run by CSCS used by the researchers of the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics CHIPP to analyze the data from the LHC experiment at CERN. The upgrade has been delivered and installed by Sun and will [...]
Today has been a special day here at CSCS for the HPC Co-Location Services team: We were following with crossed fingers the first collisions of the LHC collider at CERN. And everything went well! We are very proud with the cluster Phoenix of CHIPP to contribute as Tier 2 to the analysis of the large [...]
