SwiNG, the Swiss National Grid Association is inviting to participate in the Swiss Distributed Computing Day, University of Berne, 28 November 2011 http://www.swing-grid.ch/event/516553-swiss-distributed-computing-day The Swiss Distributed Computing Day is an annual meeting for users and providers of distributed computing technologies. This year’s focus is on: Grid computing Cloud computing HPC resources The even is free [...]
Engineers of Cray are powering up for the first time worldwide a Cray XK6 delivered to a customer. CSCS was the first supercomputing centre signing a contract with Cray for the delivery of a Cray XK6 with 2816 cores, 176 GPU for a total of 137 TF. CSCS nicknamed the supercomputer “Tödi” after the name [...]
hpc-ch is looking for Swiss Teams to participate to ISC12 Student Cluster Competition Are student at a Swiss university? Have you strong interest in HPC / Supercomputing? Do you want to represent Switzerland in an international competition? Then send an e-mail to michele.delorenzi@cscs.ch so that we can get in contact with you! Registration is open [...]
More than 30 members of the hpc-ch will participate to the next forum on «the Use of GPU and Accelerators for HPC» Thursday 27th October 2011 hosted by University of Basel. We are looking forward meeting you all in Basel. Agenda The hpc-ch meeting will already start on Wednesday, October 26th with a common dinner [...]
CSCS evaluated two PCIe attached SSD devices manufactured by Texas Memory Systems in terms of I/O bandwidth and IOPs. One of them is the recently launched “RamSan-70 Gorilla” card designed by Texas Memory Systems. This new card delivered the highest IOPS value ever measured at CSCS. In June 2011 CSCS already presented performance numbers for [...]