On November 18, ETH Zurich announced together with Oak Ridge National Labs, Berkeley National Labs, Los Alamos National Labs and Georgia Tech University the creation of the new Hybrid Multicore Consortium . The consortium will explore hybrid multicore architectures as a significant, yet unrealized promise for delivering high-end production computing capabilities for the most demanding [...]
The first Forum of the hpc-ch community has been a great success with 10 presentations and more than 30 participants. We have been welcomed by the University of Zurich, Christian Bolliger, Alexander Godknecht and the designated vice president for research, Prof. Daniel Wyler. During the lunch break we had a group picture in front of [...]
Cray has announced the Exascale Research Initiative less than a month after Intel said it was setting up an exascale research center with European partners. Cray’s partnership involves three European institutions, including the University of Edinburgh and the Swiss National Supercomputing Center. The goal of the initiative is to build a supercomputer capable of performing [...]
The following Call for Participation can be of interest for the members of our community: The 2010 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference (HPCS 2010) Caen, Normandy, France – June 28 – July 2, 2010 http://cisedu.us/cis/hpcs/10/main/callForPapers.jsp The following workshops could be in particular of interest for us: W4: Workshop on High Performance Interconnection Networks (HPIN’10) [...]
