Call for participation: CSCS-USI Summer School on Computer Simulations in Science and Engineering, 8-19 July 2013, Lugano, Switzerland Sponsored by Swiss Graduate Program FoMICS “Foundations in Mathematics and Informatics for Computer Simulations in Science and Engineering”. CSCS-USI will be hosting a two-week summer school on parallel programming aimed at graduate/PhD students who are new to [...]
Open PhD position at USI in the project ExaSolvers – Extreme scale solvers for coupled problems
A 3-year position as PhD student is available in the group of Prof. Krause “High Performance Methods for Numerical Simulation in Science, Medicine and Engineering” at the Institute of Computational Science (ICS) in Lugano, Switzerland. The position is part of the project “ExaSolvers – Extreme scale solvers for coupled problems” within the DFG Priority Programme [...]
CSCS supercomputers help to understand why pacemakers sometimes don’t help
In certain heart diseases, the left ventricle does not contract simultaneously. Usually, a pacemaker can come to the rescue here. Why this does not help in thirty per cent of cases, however, is difficult to ascertain. Simulations on the CSCS Monte Rosa supercomputer of the physiology of the heart should now help provide a detailed [...]
Agenda hpc-ch Forum on “Handling huge amounts of data for HPC”, Oct. 25th at CSCS
With 46 participants (registration is now closed), the next hpc-ch forum on “Handling huge amounts of data for HPC” will be the largest forum organized by our community. We are very happy that so many people will visit Lugano and participate to this event jointly organized by CSCS and USI. Setting the Scope Many scientific [...]
Call for presentations and participants: hpc-ch Forum on Handling huge amount of data for HPC
Dear members and guests of the hpc-ch community, We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming hpc-ch forum on Handling huge amount of data for HPC to be held on Thursday, October 25th, 2012 from 10:15 until 16:40, kindly hosted by CSCS. The hpc-ch meeting will already start on Wednesday, October 24th with a [...]



