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 [...]
Handbook of Research on Computational Science and Engineering: Call for Proposals
We are pleased to invite you to submit your proposals for the contribution of chapters to the “Handbook of Research on Computational Science and Engineering: Theory and Practice”. CSE is an emerging, rapidly developing, and potentially very significant force in changing scientific practice by offering a ‘third way’ of carrying out research in addition to, [...]
New computing systems at CSCS for MeteoSwiss
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 [...]
HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2010
As announced in a previous posting, the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2010 is going to take place in Lugano, 15-17 March, 2010. The 3-day conference is free for attendees and we already have registrants from both the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre CSCS and several other universities in Switzerland, Italy, and more. Scope The workshop [...]
Call for Presentations & Participation: Infiniband Workshop – Lugano 2010
We are glad to announce the call for participation for an Infiniband workshop jointly organized by Mellanox and CSCS in Lugano (March 15-17 2010). The workshop will be dedicated to InfiniBand training – InfiniBand architecture, hands-on training, advanced features, fabric management, and more. This is an excellent training and education opportunity for HPC IT professionals. [...]



