On December 16th Dr. Fritz Schiesser, President of ETH Board, confirmed that the Swiss federal Parliament had passed the funding for the new CSCS building. This great news follows immediately on the decision by the Ticino cantonal Parliament to contribute 5 million CHF to the construction of the new compute center. As the city of [...]
We are glad to announce the call for participation for an Infiniband workshop jointly organized by Mellanox and CSCS in Lugano (March 15-17 2010). The workshop will be dedicated to InfiniBand training – InfiniBand architecture, hands-on training, advanced features, fabric management, and more. This is an excellent training and education opportunity for HPC IT professionals. [...]
On November 18, ETH Zurich announced together with Oak Ridge National Labs, Berkeley National Labs, Los Alamos National Labs and Georgia Tech University the creation of the new Hybrid Multicore Consortium . The consortium will explore hybrid multicore architectures as a significant, yet unrealized promise for delivering high-end production computing capabilities for the most demanding [...]
The first Forum of the hpc-ch community has been a great success with 10 presentations and more than 30 participants. We have been welcomed by the University of Zurich, Christian Bolliger, Alexander Godknecht and the designated vice president for research, Prof. Daniel Wyler. During the lunch break we had a group picture in front of [...]
Cray has announced the Exascale Research Initiative less than a month after Intel said it was setting up an exascale research center with European partners. Cray’s partnership involves three European institutions, including the University of Edinburgh and the Swiss National Supercomputing Center. The goal of the initiative is to build a supercomputer capable of performing [...]
