(from ACM TechNew) ETH Zurich scientists working on the FuturIcT project plan to use the world’s largest supercomputers to simulate life on Earth, including the financial system, economies, and whole societies. The ETH researchers, working under the Competence Center for Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems, are analyzing huge amounts of financial data to [...]
Here are the slides of Jacques Menu on “AutoYaST and Installation of central services clusters” presented at the last hpc-ch forum. The agenda of the presentation is: YaST possibilities Novell registration System patch Installation of software supplied by Novell Installation server 8 Compute nodes installation strategy 8 Compute nodes boot order 9 PXE boot configuration [...]
CSCS is operating an HPC system for the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics (CHIPP), which is used to analyze the data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment at CERN. CSCS asked CHIPP to organize an internal one day workshop to present the physics, the experiments and the accelerator at the LHC as well. The [...]
CSCS is happy to announce that the Phase C of the Phoenix cluster of CHIPP has being put fully operational this Tuesday. At the same time Phase B has been switched off and is being decommissioned. The cluster Phoenix is being used to analyze as Tier 2 the data being produced by the LHC experiment [...]
