The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre CSCS organized in March 2013 the course “Get Up to Speed with Cray XC30 Piz Daint”. The three and a half day course gives an introduction to the Cray XC30 at CSCS, demonstrates how to get the best performance out of the Intel Sandy Bridge processors and shows how to [...]
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 [...]
Mountain forests in the Alps react very differently but noticeably to a warmer climate. Even if the target of limiting the Earth’s average temperature increase to 2 degrees were met, this would already prove too much of a challenge for some mountain forests. This is the result of computer simulations by researchers at ETH Zurich. [...]
A new-generation analog-to-digital converter (ADC) developed by a joint IBM-EPFL team has the potential to greatly increase the speed and volume of data that can be transferred over the Internet. Author: Sarah Perrin Source: Mediacom Images, audio, and video could soon travel through cyberspace much faster, using less energy, thanks to a new generation of [...]
The Grid Computing Competence Center (GC3) at the University of Zurich (UZH) together with FGCZ (Functional Genomics Center Zurich), and SystemsX.ch will present at the International Supercomputing Conference 2013 (ISC13) a paper introducing the software framework VM-MAD. The paper –authored by the entire VM-MAD team, including GC3′s Tyanko Aleksiev, Sergio Maffioletti, and Riccardo Murri– presents [...]
