ETH Globe – the quarterly magazine of ETH Zurich – is reporting about the computing of the future and HPC (No.4 / November 2009). Within a month both ETH Zurich (ETH Globe) and EPF Lausanne (Flash Informatique) report about HPC developments in Switzerland. “High Performance Computing” systems and supercomputers (HPC) are now a key technology [...]
A team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL’s) Markus Eisenbach and with Prof. Thomas Schulthess was named winner Thursday of the 2009 ACM Gordon Bell Prize, which honors the world’s highest-performing scientific computing applications. This is the second time in a row that the research team of Prof. Thomas Schulthess wins the prestigious Gordon [...]
The 34th TOP500 List has been released November 17th in Portland, Oregon at the SC09 Conference. Switzerland has been able to improve its general placement in the list of the most powerful supercomputer worldwide. For the first time since ever Swizerland has been able to place five system in the list with the following LINPACK [...]
The Swiss hpc-ch delegation did meet at the Supercomputin Conference 2009 in Portland, Oregon. After the initial meeting in Hamburg at ISC this has been rhe first get together. The Swiss representatives can be proud this year to present five systems listed in the top 500 list of the fastest supercomputer systems for a total [...]
