Here are the slides of Peter Öttl and Fotis Georgatos (CSCS) for their presentation “An overview of operating systems, installation procedures and monitoring at CSCS” for the last hpc-ch forum on Operating Systems for HPC and Installation Methods. Outline: Operating Systems for the Swiss WLCG Tier-2 Installation Methods Chosen Configuration Management Monitoring Tools Slides (PDF) [...]
(from ACM TechNew) ETH Zurich scientists working on the FuturIcT project plan to use the world’s largest supercomputers to simulate life on Earth, including the financial system, economies, and whole societies. The ETH researchers, working under the Competence Center for Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems, are analyzing huge amounts of financial data to [...]
Here are the slides of Jacques Menu on “AutoYaST and Installation of central services clusters” presented at the last hpc-ch forum. The agenda of the presentation is: YaST possibilities Novell registration System patch Installation of software supplied by Novell Installation server 8 Compute nodes installation strategy 8 Compute nodes boot order 9 PXE boot configuration [...]
CSCS is happy to announce that the Phase C of the Phoenix cluster of CHIPP has being put fully operational this Tuesday. At the same time Phase B has been switched off and is being decommissioned. The cluster Phoenix is being used to analyze as Tier 2 the data being produced by the LHC experiment [...]
Last July CSCS organized a Cray XT5 code porting workshop with representatives of Cray Inc. and of the University of Zurich. Now the different presentation are available online on the multimedia portal of ETH Zurich. Introduction to XT5 (Software, Operating System, Compilers Vectorization), John Levesque, Cray Inc. Compilers, Luiz De Rose; Cray Inc. Introduction to [...]
