Dear HPC enthusiasts, Bellatrix is the new EPFL computing cluster managed by DIT. To mark the imminent production start of this new machine, a joint Dell-Intel-EPFL event will take place on Thursday, December 6th High Performance Computing: benefits and critical aspects Power provisioning and energy consumption become major challenges in the field of high performance […]
During CSCS User Day, PhD student David Daverio in the Geneva cosmology group of Martin Kunz at University of Geneva presented his work on “Cosmic strings simulation”. David also gave a very interesting talk on his work attempting to clarify to the audience what are cosmic strings and how to simulate them on Monte Rosa.
The latest Green500 list (https://www.top500.org/green500/) has been released today at the SC12 supercomputing conference in Salt Lake City, USA. The purpose of the Green500 is to provide a ranking of the most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world. Two HPC system installed in Switzerland are now ranked in the top 10: Position 4: Todi Cray XK7 […]
After a long trip we’ve arrived in Salt Lake City. The snow storm made the trip to Utah more exciting than expected(!). Christian and Davide posed for a photo with the parcel containing our booth materials. On Sunday we (Angela, Christian, Davide, Hussein, Michele and Johannes) spent the day assembling the booth, and here is […]
