In early 2012, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) moved from its original location in Manno to Lugano city, a few kilometers away. The last computer to be powered off in Manno was Buin, a Cray XT4, which for the last years had computed the numerical weather forecast for MeteoSwiss every three hours, through simulations […]
It was a great pleasure to have Dr. Ulla Thiel, Vice President Europe at Cray visit the hpc-ch booth at ISC12. Ulla joined Cray in 2004 and currently serves as Vice President for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Ulla is in charge of Cray operations in Europe, which includes Sales and Marketing, Customer […]
CSCS is pleased to announce the following courses that will take place in Lugano during August. CSCS Summer School – Introduction to Parallel Programming – 6-8 August 2012 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 […]
The Azione has published an article on CSCS and the new building in Lugano: In his article Loris Fedele explains the role of supercomputing in modern science – how supercomputers are now being used as virtual laboratories for experiments that would be difficult or impossible to carry out in real life. CSCS is internationally recognised […]
