Cray has announced the Exascale Research Initiative less than a month after Intel said it was setting up an exascale research center with European partners. Cray’s partnership involves three European institutions, including the University of Edinburgh and the Swiss National Supercomputing Center. The goal of the initiative is to build a supercomputer capable of performing [...]
The following Call for Participation can be of interest for the members of our community: The 2010 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference (HPCS 2010) Caen, Normandy, France – June 28 – July 2, 2010 http://cisedu.us/cis/hpcs/10/main/callForPapers.jsp The following workshops could be in particular of interest for us: W4: Workshop on High Performance Interconnection Networks (HPIN’10) [...]
The parlament of Cantone Ticino has voted unanimously today 5 Millions to support the implementation of the High-Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN) strategy. The contribution of Canton Ticino is aimed for the construction of the new CSCS building in Lugano-Cornaredo. CHF 172.5 million are to be invested overall in implementing the HPCN strategy., 70 for [...]
The Swiss HPC Community demonstrates a large interest for the first Forum of hpc-ch: Thursday, December 3th, from 10:00 until 17:00 University of Zurich, Irchel / Winterthurerstrs. 190, 8057 Zürich in the Building/Room Y10-G-03/04 33 persons from 13 organization will participate to the forum and present in 9 short presentations their HPC organization and infrastructure. [...]