The submission deadline of the First International Workshop on Parallel Software Tools and Tool Infrastructures (PSTI 2010) has been extended to April 26, 2010. PSTI will be held in conjunction with ICPP 2010, the 39th International Conference on Parallel Processing, San Diego CA, September 13-16, 2010. TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited [...]
What is Grid Computing about? Grid’s goal is about sharing resources that belong to multiple administrative entities and providing them as a unified resource to end-users, that may themselves belong to multiple administrative domains. CERN is betting heavily on this concept with the LHC Computing Grid project (also known as “LCG”), in an effort to [...]
CSCS is happy to announce that Phoenix PhaseC Upgrade passed today the acceptance test. Phoenix is a HPC system run by CSCS used by the researchers of the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics CHIPP to analyze the data from the LHC experiment at CERN. The upgrade has been delivered and installed by Sun and will [...]
Today has been a special day here at CSCS for the HPC Co-Location Services team: We were following with crossed fingers the first collisions of the LHC collider at CERN. And everything went well! We are very proud with the cluster Phoenix of CHIPP to contribute as Tier 2 to the analysis of the large [...]
