We are happy to welcome @datanami as our 100th follower on Twitter. Datanami is a news portal dedicated to providing insight, analysis and up-to-the-minute information about emerging trends and solutions in big data. Big data is an important topic also in Switzerland. For example on October 25th, 2012 all the hpc-ch community will meet at […]
Today researchers working on the LHC experiment at CERN presented the observation of a new particle with a mass of 125 GeV. This is a very important step on the search for the standard model (SM) Higgs bosson in their data recorded up to June 2012. In this interview, Prof. Christoph Grab of ETH Zurich […]
In early 2012, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) moved from its original location in Manno to Lugano city, a few kilometers away. The last computer to be powered off in Manno was Buin, a Cray XT4, which for the last years had computed the numerical weather forecast for MeteoSwiss every three hours, through simulations […]
It was a great pleasure to have Dr. Ulla Thiel, Vice President Europe at Cray visit the hpc-ch booth at ISC12. Ulla joined Cray in 2004 and currently serves as Vice President for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Ulla is in charge of Cray operations in Europe, which includes Sales and Marketing, Customer […]
