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 […]
CSCS will be hosting a three day summer school on parallel programming aimed at graduate students who are new to the world of high performance computing and who wish to learn the basic skills required to write, develop and maintain parallel applications in scientific computing. 17-19 August 2011 at CSCS in Manno The school will […]
There were a lot of visitors at the hpc-ch booth at ISC11. Their feedback was always very positive. We were able to demonstrate that Switzerland is a very active country in the field of HPC. The booth is the result of a great teamwork. We would like to say thank you to all persons who […]
