Today marks the start of the LHC research programme with the first attempt for collisions at 7 TeV (3.5 TeV per beam). Webcasts are available until 18:15 (Central European Summer Time – CEST). The main webcast will include live footage from the control room for the LHC accelerator and from the control rooms of the [...]
The HPC Advisory Council in Lugano has been a great success. More than 100 participants cold follow the technical presentations and the hands-on tutorials. On the evening of the last day, about 15 participants visited CSCS and its infrastructure (computing room and basement with the technical infrastructure). Group Photo Transformer Room
One of our members is reporting live from the HPC Advisory Council on twitter: Stay tuned on @arzela (see also the right column of this page). If you also would like to twitter about the HPC Advisory Council please use the tag #hpcac (search directly on twitter).
The HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2010 started today in Lugano. With more than 110 registered persons this is the largest conference ever dedicated to HPC technologies in Swutzerland. Main topic of the conference will be the use of Infiniband technologies for HPC. The following sponsors made the organization of the conference possible: AMD, CSCS, [...]
Work has begun in Cornaredo to host the supercomputers of Swiss National Computing Center (CSCS), which in 2012 will move from Manno. The bulldozers are demolishing the old garage of Public Transport, north of the firehouse, and the construction work will begin this summer. Article on Corriere del Ticino »
