Dorian Krause (USI) presented at the last hpc-ch forum on “Operating Systems for HPC and Installation Methods” about “Experiences with the Rocks Distribution for Cluster Deployment“. Presentation (PDF) »
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) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
