University of Zurich and Intel commonly announced a case study for the use of Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 and 5400 series for Schrödiger, the new Sun HPC system of the university. The University has been at the forefront of scientific research for many years and relies heavily on its HPC cluster to underpin complex calculations [...]
See also the original slides of Andres Aeschlimann as pdf » Purpose This Grid HPC infrastructure is primarily designed to support the researchers at the Campus. They should use their time doing research and not be bothered by deploying a Grid HPC infrastructure. Some facts first Linux Cluster was installed in 2001 (1 master and [...]
The first 8 projects to be supported by HP2C have been accepted. A decision about 4 additional projects is expected in the next weeks. In December 2009, the steering committee of HP2C selected the following 8 projects to be supported: Advanced Gyrokinetic – Advanced gyrokinetic numerical simulations of turbulence in fusion plasmas; Prof. Laurent Villard, [...]
CSCS is providing HPC services to MeteoSwiss for the National daily weather forecast. Since 2007 the service has been provided by Buin (a Cray XT4) as main production system and Palu (a Cray XT3) as backup system. Palu has been decommissioned at the end of 2009 because of his high operational costs. His functionality as [...]
As announced in a previous posting, the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2010 is going to take place in Lugano, 15-17 March, 2010. The 3-day conference is free for attendees and we already have registrants from both the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre CSCS and several other universities in Switzerland, Italy, and more. Scope The workshop [...]
