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 [...]
We are happy to announce the final agenda of the second Forum of the hpc-ch community on “Operating Systems for HPC and Installation Methods” (EPF Lausanne, May 20). In total we have 31 registrations, 6 presentations and 2 site visits at the infrastructure of EPF Lausanne. We would like Vittoria Rezzonico for the big help [...]
The Visualization/Research & Development Cluster EIGER is a new CSCS facility which extends the current resource portfolio. During the Q2/Q3 2010 it will be fully integrated into the CSCS Supercomputing ecosystem, and will be opened to the swiss scientific user community for hybrid multicore/ multi-GPU computing, visualization, data analysis, and general purpose pre/post processing activities. [...]
The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) will be hosting the following training courses during the months of May and June 2010. We still have some places available in each course so we encourage you to register quickly to benefit from these opportunities. A “Hands-On” Introduction to PETSc (10–11/05/2010) This course provides students with a comprehensive [...]