The High Performance and High Productivity Computing Platform (HP2C) invites the submission of proposals focused on applications of high performance computing to risk analysis for global challenges. These projects should focus on advances in mathematical methods, algorithms and computational techniques to better exploit next generation supercomputing platforms for the analysis and forecast of global challenges, [...]
Last May Kathleen Knobe of Intel visited CSCS giving a talk on Concurrent Collections (CnC). We are happy to share with you the video of her very interesting talk (click on the picture here below to start the movie). A common approach in designing parallel languages is to provide some high level handles to manipulate [...]
Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) is offering a Master of Informatics with Major in Computational Science. This full time programme is worth 120 ECTS and stretches over two years. It allows students to personalize their study curricula according to their individual interests. As the Master will be launched in September 2010, the precise study programme [...]
The President of ETH Zurich, Ralph Eichler, the ETH Board has appointed Markus Püschel at present Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA, as full Professor of Informatics. Markus Püschel’s research interests combine techniques from mathematics, computer science and engineering. His interdisciplinary research will strengthen cooperation [...]
