The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe’s work package for future petaflop computer technologies beyond 2010 recently assessed 12 prototypes for next-generation computer architectures. The evaluation included full systems, system components, software prototypes, and several research activities. For example, CSCS evaluated the PGAS programming model using the Cray Compiler Environment for UPC and CAF. CINES [...]
On 22 February, Zurich and Ticino newspapers (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zürcher Landzeitung, La Regione Ticino, Giornale del Popolo) reported that ETH Zurich has concluded an agreement with the Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) on joint professorships – especially with a view to synergies in computational science, engineering and economics as well as with the Swiss [...]
With more than 100 registered attendees, the HPC Council Switzerland Workshop (Lugano, March 15-17) is having a great success. If you want to know more about InfiniBand technologies, this is the right time to register online. Download the latest agenda with the list gold ans silver sponsors: Flyer HPC Council Switzerland Workshop Agenda – Day [...]
The importance of power consumption and green IT are increasing also for HPC. From Bernard Aebischer of the Centre for Energy Policy & Economics at ETH Zurich (CEPE) I received a message with interesting links related to this topic. I just forward his mail in this post (see here below, in German). Bernard in addition [...]
