The hpc-ch community will meet for the first time at the University of Zurich on December 3th, 2009 (10:30 until 16:30). The goal is to get an overview of the HPC activities an infrastructure of each member. In addition the organization and the next steps of the community will be discussed. All representatives of Swiss [...]
EPF Lausanne is dedicating a whole number of its inhouse journal “Flash-Informatique” to High Performance Computing (No. 8 / 2009, 64 pages). The editorial is by Vittoria Rezzonico. Here is a selection of articles: Le projet CADMOS par Giorgio MARGARITONDO Les clusters de calcul expérimentaux du Domaine IT par Pascal JERMINI Monte Rosa au CSCS [...]
The newspapers 24heures and Tribune de Genève report on the HPC activities in the “arc lémanique” region. In the full size article printed in the newspapers, CADMOS is mentioned to be one of the national nodes of the Swiss National HPC Strategy (HPCN) being implemented. L’union Vaud-Genève passe par un superordinateur installé à l’EPFL INNOVATION [...]
On October 20, 2009 the Swiss TV reported on the late news trasmission 10vor10 about the new Supercomputer installed at CSCS and the Swiss National HPC strategy (HPCN). Neuer Supercomputer in Lugano In Manno bei Lugano steht das Rechenzentrum der ETH Zürich. Seit ein paar Wochen steht dort der neuste Supercomputer der Schweiz, der drittschnellste [...]
In a full page article on Wednesday, October 14, 2009, Stefan Betschon reports on NZZ about the N ational Swiss HPC Initiative (HPCN). In the article “Mächting rauschen die Ventilatoren” is explained why Switzerland needs an “ecological system” of supercomputers: mid-sized HPC systems in the universities and one larger at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre [...]
