Since May 2010 Production Project Proposals for CSCS can be submitted at any time. The deadline for the next allocation period (April 1st, 2011) is December 1st, 2010. There are only two allocation periods per year, that is on April 1st and October 1st. For the next allocation period starting on April 1st 2011 all projects […]
ETH Life just published an article on the Car-Parrinello method for performing ab-initio quantum mechanical molecular dynamics (MD). Prof. Parrinello, one of the two scientists that created the methods holds a dual professorship at ETH Zurich and the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano from 2011. The method has been developed 25 years ago and […]
Monday, October 18 has been an important day for the implementation of the Swiss National HPC Initiative (HPCN). In Lugano Cornaredo there was the ceremony for the laying of the foundation stone for the new CSCS building. The ceremony has been attended by representatives of ETH Zurich, the Canton of Ticino, the City of Lugano, […]
Next October 28, the members of the hpc-ch community will meet at ETH Zurich to discuss about parallel file systems for HPC. 35 participants registered to this meeting and will give 9 presentations about this topic. In addition we will the possibility to visit the data center of ETH Zurich hosting Brutus, one of the […]