The slidecasts of the PASC14 conference hosted at ETH Zurich in June 2-3, 2014 are now available. The goal of the conference has been to bringing together all scientists and research groups within these diverse scientific domains to foster interdisciplinary collaborations and to strengthen high-performance computing (HPC) knowledge exchange. Welcome to the conference, Thomas Schulthess [...]
CSCS organized last March (24-27 March) a 4-day training course on “Piz Daint”, CSCS hybrid Cray XC30 system. “Piz Daint” has 5.272 compute nodes (with Intel® Xeon® E5-2670 and NVIDIA® Tesla® K20X) and a peak performance of 7.8 Petaflops. The presentations have being given by experts from Cray, NVIDIA and Allinea. The Cray Programming Environment [...]
ISC14 (International Supercomputing Conference) announced on Monday the new TOP500 list, which classifies supercomputers according to their processing power, just this morning. The list ranks Piz Daint of CSCS as the sixth fastest supercomputer in the world and absolute fastest in Europe. The photos here below show the award ceremony with representatives of Cray, ISC/TOP500 and CSCS. [...]
The next BoF of the hpc-hpc Community will take place at Leipzig-ISC14: BoF 07: High Performance Communications for High Performance Computing Hall 4 Tuesday, June 24, 2014 10:00 am – 11:00 am We will adress the following topics: Engage – (“Engaging for HPC”) An important role of our communication activities is to engage “people” (our [...]
