In a previous blog entry we reported about the Cray XT3, Palu, being decommissioned at CSCS. In the meantime we were able to give a new home to the three of the six computing racks at ENTER, the Museum for Computer and Technology close to Solothurn. Das ENTER ist das einzige Museum in der Schweiz, [...]
On January 27th, 2010 the Cray XT3 has reached the end of its life here at CSCS, for the last time the system has been shut down and disassembled. This computer has been named after Piz Palü in the Bernina range in Graubunden, Eastern Switzerland with an elevation 3901 m and his last configuration has [...]
Today the HPC system called “Dôle” has been moved to a new location inside CSCS. Dôle is being used by MeteoSwiss as failover for Buin, the main production system for weather forecast. Previously Dôle and Buin were placed next to each one. The replacement to two separate locations in the CSCS computer room will ensure [...]
See also the original slides of Andres Aeschlimann as pdf » Purpose This Grid HPC infrastructure is primarily designed to support the researchers at the Campus. They should use their time doing research and not be bothered by deploying a Grid HPC infrastructure. Some facts first Linux Cluster was installed in 2001 (1 master and [...]
CSCS is providing HPC services to MeteoSwiss for the National daily weather forecast. Since 2007 the service has been provided by Buin (a Cray XT4) as main production system and Palu (a Cray XT3) as backup system. Palu has been decommissioned at the end of 2009 because of his high operational costs. His functionality as [...]
