In a previous blog entry we reported about the Cray XT3, Palu, being decommissioned at CSCS. In the meantime we were able to give a new home to the three of the six computing racks at ENTER, the Museum for Computer and Technology close to Solothurn. Das ENTER ist das einzige Museum in der Schweiz, [...]
On January 8th, 2010 the compute nodes of «Blanc» an IBM P5 have been switched off and on January 31st, 2010 the login nodes have also be switched off . This computer has been named after Mont Blanc in the French-Italian Alps, elevation 4807 m and his last configuration has been the follow: 48 nodes [...]
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. [...]
The 34th TOP500 List has been released November 17th in Portland, Oregon at the SC09 Conference. Switzerland has been able to improve its general placement in the list of the most powerful supercomputer worldwide. For the first time since ever Swizerland has been able to place five system in the list with the following LINPACK [...]
