CSCS is happy to announce that the next-generation Cray XMT has been delivered and assembled. During the acceptance tests CSCS were able to reproduce the numbers submitted to the Graph500 last month. The Cray XMT supercomputer is named “Matterhorn” after the very famous Swiss mountain and it is now ready to be used. For detailed […]
ETH Board decided on July 8, 2011 to continue to adhere to its strategic plan for 2012-2016 and to support the High-Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN) strategy together with other large-scale projects. Additional resources demanded for the implementation of the strategic plan As to the large-scale projects, the ETH Board intends to implement the projects […]
CSCS evaluated two different PCIe attached SSD devices with various methods for analyzing bandwidth and IOPs. The performance over SATA drives is huge as expected, by a factor of 20 in bandwidth and a factor of 1500 for IOPs. The results indicate, that SSDs are a valid alternative for SATA or SAS drives in terms […]
Since October 2009 CSCS uses xCAT in some production environments. xCAT is an open source HPC cluster management. It is agile, extendable, and based on years of system administration best practices and experience. Carmelo Ponti of CSCS contributed to the project with a “Getting Started” document » Please contact Carmelo (cponti at cscs.ch) for additional […]
