The parlament of Cantone Ticino has voted unanimously today 5 Millions to support the implementation of the High-Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN) strategy. The contribution of Canton Ticino is aimed for the construction of the new CSCS building in Lugano-Cornaredo. CHF 172.5 million are to be invested overall in implementing the HPCN strategy., 70 for [...]
The Swiss HPC Community demonstrates a large interest for the first Forum of hpc-ch: Thursday, December 3th, from 10:00 until 17:00 University of Zurich, Irchel / Winterthurerstrs. 190, 8057 Zürich in the Building/Room Y10-G-03/04 33 persons from 13 organization will participate to the forum and present in 9 short presentations their HPC organization and infrastructure. [...]
ETH Globe – the quarterly magazine of ETH Zurich – is reporting about the computing of the future and HPC (No.4 / November 2009). Within a month both ETH Zurich (ETH Globe) and EPF Lausanne (Flash Informatique) report about HPC developments in Switzerland. “High Performance Computing” systems and supercomputers (HPC) are now a key technology [...]
A team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL’s) Markus Eisenbach and with Prof. Thomas Schulthess was named winner Thursday of the 2009 ACM Gordon Bell Prize, which honors the world’s highest-performing scientific computing applications. This is the second time in a row that the research team of Prof. Thomas Schulthess wins the prestigious Gordon [...]