CSCS organized May 15-17 a 2-day training course aimed to teach performance engineering approaches on the compute node level. “Performance engineering” is intended as developing a thorough understanding of the interactions between software and hardware. The instructors were Prof. Gerhard Wellen and Dr. Georg Hager from RRZE, Germany. CSCS organized May 15-17 a 2-day training course aimed to teach performance […]
CSCS organized last March (24-27 March) a 4-day training course on “Piz Daint”, CSCS hybrid Cray XC30 system. “Piz Daint” has 5.272 compute nodes (with Intel® Xeon® E5-2670 and NVIDIA® Tesla® K20X) and a peak performance of 7.8 Petaflops. The presentations have being given by experts from Cray, NVIDIA and Allinea. The Cray Programming Environment […]
43th SPEEDUP Workshop on High Performance Computing, September 4/5, 2014, at the University of Geneva The intention of this workshop is to present and discuss the state-of-the-art in high-performance and parallel scientific computing. Presentations will focus on algorithms, applications, and software issues related to high-performance parallel computing. The focus of the workshop on September 4 […]
This is the second part of the slidecasts of the two day course on visualization and graphics organized by CSCS in Lugano. Speaker was Jean Favre (CSCS). VisIt, an open-source turn-key 3D data visualizer VisIt-specific Features Parallel and client-server usage from the outside to CSCS Interactive sessions vs. batch-oriented scripting Customization via plugins for ParaView and […]
CSCS organized in January a two day course on visualization and graphics. Speaker was Jean Favre (CSCS). We publish the slidecasts of the course starting with day 1. Introduction, objectives Matplotlib, a python 2D data plotting library VTK Charts and Infovis: Introduction by example The Visualization Pipeline. Introduction Data formatting for 3D Visualization ParaView, an open-source […]
