In a full page article on Wednesday, October 14, 2009, Stefan Betschon reports on NZZ about the N ational Swiss HPC Initiative (HPCN). In the article “Mächting rauschen die Ventilatoren” is explained why Switzerland needs an “ecological system” of supercomputers: mid-sized HPC systems in the universities and one larger at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre [...]
On September 18, 2009 the new supercomputer named Monte Rosa at CSCS has been officially inaugured by the President of ETH Board, Fritz Schiesser and the President of ETH Zurich, Prof. Ralph Eichler. Read about the inaguration on an article of ETH Life
The television program Einstein of SF1 broadcasted on August 28, 2009 about Schrödinger, the new HPC system of the Universitiy of Zurich. Mit neuem Supercomputer gegen Alzheimer Die Universität Zürich erhält einen neuen Hochleistungsrechner. Er bewältigt die unvorstellbare Zahl von 50 Billionen Rechenoperationen pro Sekunde. Diese enorme Computerleistung nutzen Forscher zum Beispiel bei der Entwicklung [...]
ETH Life reports on CSCS being the third fastest supercomputing centre in Europe: Today, Tuesday, the list of the 500 fastest computers in the world was announced at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg. The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) run by ETH Zurich came 23rd with its Cray XT5. Only two European computer centers [...]
