More than 30 members of the hpc-ch will participate to the next forum on «the Use of GPU and Accelerators for HPC» Thursday 27th October 2011 hosted by University of Basel. We are looking forward meeting you all in Basel. Agenda The hpc-ch meeting will already start on Wednesday, October 26th with a common dinner […]
The American ambassador Donald Beyer was given a glimpse into the computer infrastructure and day-to-day work at CSCS. A technology and science enthusiast, the diplomat was suitably impressed. American Ambassador Donald Beyer and Henry Bisharat, a counsellor of political and economic affairs, arrived at CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre) on Thursday October 6th morning. After […]
The CSCS User Day brought together around 60 users in Lucerne on 23 September. Exciting scientific lectures, lively two-minute personal poster presentations by scientists and discussions were the order of the day in Lucerne. Highlight of the day were three scientific presentations. Jeroen Tromp of Princeton University presented an ingenious method to create a realistic […]
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 […]