At the San Diego Supercomputing Centre (SDSC) booth at SC11 we met Rick Wagner who presented simulations of astrophysics that were done on Jaguar and Kraken at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In the simulation one could see the light of early galaxies that are forming (red shift of 8). The researchers simulated the birth of […]
The 2012 International Supercomputing Conference Research Paper and Tutorial Committees are now accepting full papers and tutorial proposals for ISC’12 in Europe. The ISC’12 Call for Papers is supported by the IEEE Germany Section. The deadline for research paper and tutorial submissions is Sunday, January, 22, 2012. Please refer to the ISC’12 website for full […]
In the last number of “Flash Informatique” at EPFL you can read an article by Vittoria Rezzonico about free software for HPC. Since the Beowulf revolution, High Performance Computing (HPC) has been taken over not only by clusters built from commodity hardware, but also by free software. Starting from the operating system, up to the […]
At the hpc-ch booth at SC11 you could have read on a signboard that CSCS is a proud member of the HPC Advisory Board. Brian Sparks, a representative of the of the HPC Advisory Board at SC11, visited us at the booth. We asked Brian to present the board and some of his activities. Brian […]
