In May 2012 CSCS organized a course about “Using the next-generation Cray XMT (uRiKA) for Large Scale Data Analytics”. The next-generation Cray XMT (uRiKA) is a massively multithreaded, high performance computer system built for data analytics. The system supports a semantic database capable of processing SPARQL queries against a RDF triple store. The system can [...]
The Faculty of Science of the University of Basel, Switzerland, invites outstanding scientists to apply for an Assistant Professorship (Tenure-Track) in High Performance Computing beginning in spring 2014. The University of Basel is promoting the growing area of computational science. The faculty of science started in 2002 to offer a full Bachelor and Master program [...]
The new CSCS supercomputer named “Piz Daint” is the first and largest Cray XC30 system installed worldwide. Its procurement and installation marks an important milestone in the implementation of the national high performance supercomputing strategy. In the beginning of April the system will be made available to Swiss researchers. In a collaboration with Cray and [...]
After Alistair’s final remarks on OpenACC, the rest of the second day was dedicated to NVIDIA. Peter Messmer started with a general introduction to focus after that on the NVIDIA Kepler CUDA5 and debugging and performance tools. CUDA Tutorial: Introduction (Peter Messmer, NVIDIA) CUDA Tutorial: NVIDIA Kepler CUDA5 (Peter Messmer, NVIDIA) CUDA Tutorial: Debugging and Performance [...]
The second day of the course Jeff Poznanovic from CSCS presented the agenda of the day , followed by Alistair Hart wrapping up the tutorial on OpenACC with a second example on porting real applications and a final roadmap . Agenda (Jeff Poznanovic, CSCS) OpenACC Tutorial: Porting real applications (Part B) (Alistair Hart, Cray) OpenACC [...]
