CSCS, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, is pleased to announce the successful installation of an early-release version of the new Cray XE6 supercomputing architecture manufactured by Cray Inc. The single cabinet, 20 blade system, contains 160 compute sockets and uses the new 2.1GHz, 12-core AMD Opteron (aka Magny-Cours) CPUs for a total of 1920 compute [...]
In June of 2009 Monte Rosa was inaugurated at CSCS. During the last year Rosa has been working day and night providing cycles to the Swiss researcher community. In this year the number of cores used by the jobs increased rapidly: 57% of the jobs use now more than 512 cores and 33% of the [...]
39th SPEEDUP Workshop on High Performance Computing, September 6/7, 2010, at ETH Zurich 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 Monday Sept 6 will [...]
The High Performance and High Productivity Computing Platform (HP2C) invites the submission of proposals focused on applications of high performance computing to risk analysis for global challenges. These projects should focus on advances in mathematical methods, algorithms and computational techniques to better exploit next generation supercomputing platforms for the analysis and forecast of global challenges, [...]
Last May Kathleen Knobe of Intel visited CSCS giving a talk on Concurrent Collections (CnC). We are happy to share with you the video of her very interesting talk (click on the picture here below to start the movie). A common approach in designing parallel languages is to provide some high level handles to manipulate [...]
