CSCS is operating an HPC system for the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics (CHIPP), which is used to analyze the data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment at CERN. CSCS asked CHIPP to organize an internal one day workshop to present the physics, the experiments and the accelerator at the LHC as well. The [...]
CSCS is happy to announce that the Phase C of the Phoenix cluster of CHIPP has being put fully operational this Tuesday. At the same time Phase B has been switched off and is being decommissioned. The cluster Phoenix is being used to analyze as Tier 2 the data being produced by the LHC experiment [...]
Last July CSCS organized a Cray XT5 code porting workshop with representatives of Cray Inc. and of the University of Zurich. Now the different presentation are available online on the multimedia portal of ETH Zurich. Introduction to XT5 (Software, Operating System, Compilers Vectorization), John Levesque, Cray Inc. Compilers, Luiz De Rose; Cray Inc. Introduction to [...]
The second hpc-ch forum on operating systems and installation methods at EPF Lausanne on May 20 has been a great success with more than 35 HPC participants. In the morning we have been welcomed to EPFL by Vittoria Rezzonico (sysadmin and local organizer) and Jean-Claude Berney (director of the IT services). Jean-Claude pointed out the [...]
