Last week CSCS started moving from the old location in Manno to the new building in Lugano. The first to move have been the employees not related to the operations of the supercomputers. The supercomputers together with the technical staff will start moving by the end of March. The move to Lugano started with a […]
Switzerland will be present in the newly launched ISC HPC Blog launched at the beginning of February 2012. Michele De Lorenzi (head of communication and associate director at CSCS) and Simone Ulmer (science journalist) will be posting articles about HPC activities in Switzerland on a regular basis. To start the series of blog entries, they […]
CSCS just reported that ETH Zurich scientists have for the first time succeeded in realistically simulating how an oceanic plate sinks of its own accord under an adjacent plate. At the same time the scientists showed why only one of the plates rather than both subducts into the Earth’s mantle, and how this process affects […]
Representatives of our hpc-ch community could be interested in participating to two of the associated workshop of the eScience2012 conference (Chicago, 8-12 October 2012): Workshop – Extending High-Performance Computing Beyond its Traditional User Communities – The desired outcome of the workshop is an improved understanding of actions that should be taken by the various stakeholders […]
