The new TOP500 list has been announced at ISC’10 conference in Hamburg. The big surprise has been the second classment of Chinese system called Nebulae, build from a Dawning TC3600 Blade system with Intel X5650 processors and NVidia Tesla C2050 GPUs. Switzerland was able to place again 5 HPC systems in this year: From the [...]
The 2nd Workshop on Programming Models for Emerging Architectures will be co-located with the 19th PACT conference in Viena, Austria. Current trends in computer architecture incorporate many cores into a single chip some of which can be specialized heterogeneous accelerators. This makes it difficult to program without knowledge of the underlying architecture. The workshop goal [...]
ETH Zurich and IBM Rüschlikon announced on May 6th that Aquasar is operational. Aquasar is an HPC system developed together by the two institutions using water to directly cool the integrated circuits. The water with a temperature of about 60 oC is used to heat the building of ETH Zurich. The goal of this research [...]
The Visualization/Research & Development Cluster EIGER is a new CSCS facility which extends the current resource portfolio. During the Q2/Q3 2010 it will be fully integrated into the CSCS Supercomputing ecosystem, and will be opened to the swiss scientific user community for hybrid multicore/ multi-GPU computing, visualization, data analysis, and general purpose pre/post processing activities. [...]
The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) will be hosting the following training courses during the months of May and June 2010. We still have some places available in each course so we encourage you to register quickly to benefit from these opportunities. A “Hands-On” Introduction to PETSc (10–11/05/2010) This course provides students with a comprehensive [...]
