hpc-ch is getting ready for SC12. The first thing to leave for Salt Lake City is our swiss flag cube that we’ll use as a table at the booth. Let’s see if the parcel finds its way from Lugano, Via Trevano 131 to Booth 2435, Salt Palace Convention Center. One way or another we [...]
Video – Discussion Between SDSC and Argonne About the Challenges of Visualizing Large Data Sets
In the two previous posts we presented the simulation of the spatial structure of the light emitted in early galaxies. We asked Rick Wagner of SDSC to discuss with Venkartram Vishwanath of Argonne the challenges of creating visualizations of very large numerical scale. The simulation of Rick produces for example 256 GB of data for [...]
Interview with Rick Wagner SDSC – Simulation of the Formation of the First Galaxies
At the San Diego Supercomputing Centre (SDSC) booth at SC11 we met Rick Wagner who presented simulations of astrophysics that were done on Jaguar and Kraken at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In the simulation one could see the light of early galaxies that are forming (red shift of 8). The researchers simulated the birth of [...]
Interview with George Lake, University of Zurich about HPC, Astrophysics and Switzerland
George Lake is professor for astrophysics at the University of Zurich (UZH). At his visit to the hpc-ch booth at SC11 we interviewed him about his research activities. George told us that at UZH there are different research groups working on dark matter, large scale structure of the universe and galaxy and clusters of galaxies. [...]





