Since January 28, researchers from EPFL and the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne have benefitted from a new supercomputer, the BlueGene/Q. This computer is four times more powerful than its predecessor – it can perform 172,000 billion operations per second! With low energy consumption, it also is counted among the Top 10 greenest supercomputers in [...]
On January 9th 2013 CSCS participated in the RSI RETE UNO radio program “Millevoci” to discuss the future of internet. Nicola Colotti invited CSCS associate director Michele De Lorenzi and two experts of new technologies, communication and internet Paolo Attivissimo and Alessandro Longo to try to answer questions such as “are computers going to to develop [...]
In October CSCS upgraded the accelerators of the “Tödi” system from NVIDIA Fermi X2090 (Cray XK6) to Kepler K20X (Cray XK7). Have a look at how Cray staff replaced the old graphical processing units with the new ones. Named after Tödi in the west part of the Glarus Alps, elevation 3614m. Tödi has 272 nodes, [...]
The Cray XC30 has arrived at CSCS on December 5th, 2012. After just a few days of assembly it has found its place in the new CSCS machine room, complementing the already existing systems. It has been baptized ”Piz Daint” after the prominent peak of the Swiss part of the Ortler Alps in Grisons. With its 12 cabinets Piz [...]
Rich Loft, Director of Technology and Development at the Computing Lab of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Aaron Andersen (Deputy Director for Operations at NCAR) have been involved from the beginning in the design of the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC). NWSC has been operational since October 2012 and hosts the Yellowstone supercomputer, [...]
