It is getting warmer in Switzerland and dryer in summer, and climate change will also affect the frequency and character of extreme events. Climate scientists of C2SM Competence Centre (Center for Climate Systems Modeling) and MeteoSwiss have generated the Swiss Climate Change Scenarios CH2011 which provide a new assessment of how climate may change over […]
Thursday 27 October 2011, 10:00 – 17:00, hosted by Universität Basel Setting the Scope In the last years the interest in using Graphics Processing Units (GPU) for HPC computing has been growing. Modern GPUs are designed to support computer games in the real time calculation of their visual effects. Therefore modern GPUs are highly parallel […]
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 […]
The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) reported today how the group of professor Michele Parrinello demonstrated how diamonds emerge from graphite by using the Monte Rosa Cray XT5 supercomputer. For the first time ever the researchers have used a new method to precisely simulate the phase transition from graphite to diamond. Instead of happening concerted, […]