On January 8th, 2010 the compute nodes of «Blanc» an IBM P5 have been switched off and on January 31st, 2010 the login nodes have also be switched off . This computer has been named after Mont Blanc in the French-Italian Alps, elevation 4807 m and his last configuration has been the follow: 48 nodes [...]
On January 27th, 2010 the Cray XT3 has reached the end of its life here at CSCS, for the last time the system has been shut down and disassembled. This computer has been named after Piz Palü in the Bernina range in Graubunden, Eastern Switzerland with an elevation 3901 m and his last configuration has [...]
Today the HPC system called “Dôle” has been moved to a new location inside CSCS. Dôle is being used by MeteoSwiss as failover for Buin, the main production system for weather forecast. Previously Dôle and Buin were placed next to each one. The replacement to two separate locations in the CSCS computer room will ensure [...]
University of Zurich and Intel commonly announced a case study for the use of Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 and 5400 series for Schrödiger, the new Sun HPC system of the university. The University has been at the forefront of scientific research for many years and relies heavily on its HPC cluster to underpin complex calculations [...]
