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 [...]
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 [...]
The television program Einstein of SF1 broadcasted on August 28, 2009 about Schrödinger, the new HPC system of the Universitiy of Zurich. Mit neuem Supercomputer gegen Alzheimer Die Universität Zürich erhält einen neuen Hochleistungsrechner. Er bewältigt die unvorstellbare Zahl von 50 Billionen Rechenoperationen pro Sekunde. Diese enorme Computerleistung nutzen Forscher zum Beispiel bei der Entwicklung [...]
