PRACE opened the PRACE 4th regular call for Tier-0 resources and DECI-8 (Distributed European Computing Initiative) call for Tier-1 resources on 2nd of November, 2011. The call will close on 10th of January, 2012 The call is also open for researchers from Swiss universities and research laboratories. Switzerland is represented in PRACE by ETH Zurich […]
SUNNYVALE, CA. and LUGANO, SWITZERLAND – Dec. 12, 2011 – The HPC Advisory Council, a leading organization for high-performance computing research, outreach and education, and CSCS, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, will host the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2012 in the Lugano Convention Centre, Lugano, Switzerland, from March 13-15, 2012. The conference will focus […]
Vittoria Rezzonico is the new Computational Sciences and Engineering Coordinator at EPFL. In this function Vittoria has become the reference person at EPFL for HPC issues and she is coordinating the deployment of shared HPC systems at the university. In his function Vittoria meets on a regular basis the researchers of EPFL to learn their […]
George Lake is professor for astrophysics at the University of Zurich (UZH). At his visit to the hpc-ch booth at SC11 we interviewed him about his research activities. George told us that at UZH there are different research groups working on dark matter, large scale structure of the universe and galaxy and clusters of galaxies. […]
