Dear members and guests of the hpc-ch community, We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming hpc-ch forum on Parallel File Systems for HPC to be held on Thursday, October 28, 2010 from 10:00 until 17:00, kindly hosted by ETH Zurich by the HPC group of Olivier Byrde. ETH Zurich will present its heterogeneous [...]
CSCS created a video channel named CSCS on CSCS on the multimedia portal of ETH Zurich. On this channel CSCS will publish videos reporting on the supercomputing centre like interviews with researchers using the supercomputers, videos showing the assembling of supercomputers, promotion videos and much more. In September 2009 CSCS produced for an open day [...]
On September 2, 2010 the second cabinet of the Cray XE6 arrived and was installed at CSCS. Both cabinets are identical and will be interconnected to build a single large system. Continuing the tradition of CSCS, the Cray XE6 has been given the name of a Swiss mountain, in this case Palu. The Piz Palü [...]
On a six-day visit to Brazil with focus on science and health issues, Swiss Interior Minister Didier Burkhalter officially hand over the IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer, donated by Lausanne’s Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), to Brazil’s education minister. The supercomputer will be installed at the São Paulo University, Brazil’s largest university. The machine, which is [...]