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 [...]
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 [...]
