Prof. Thomas Schulthess presented the HP2C initiative at the First Workshop of the Hybrid Multicore Consortium in San Francisco (January, January 20, 2010). Have a look to the different presentations of the consortium members and in particular to the presentation of HP2C by Schulthess. As stated in the presentation, the overarching goal of HP2C is [...]
We are happy to announce that University of Lausanne is joining the hpc-ch community as a guest. The university will be represented in the community by Hamid Hussain-Khan of the Centre informatique. The University of Lausanne is running itself only a small HPC system besides the private ones hosted by its research institutes (for this [...]
In January 2010 started at CSCS the upgrade of the cluster “Phoenix” that is being used as tier 2 by the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics (CHIPP) in the LHC experiment at CERN. The Swiss commitment in 3 of the 4 large LHC experiments (ATLAS, CMS and LHCb) mandates establishing their own Grid computing infrastructure [...]
In a previous blog entry we reported about the Cray XT3, Palu, being decommissioned at CSCS. In the meantime we were able to give a new home to the three of the six computing racks at ENTER, the Museum for Computer and Technology close to Solothurn. Das ENTER ist das einzige Museum in der Schweiz, [...]
