The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF, Reading, UK) organized from November 1 to 5, 2010 the 14th Workshop on the Use of High Performance Computing (HPC) in Meteorology. The aim of this workshop is to bring together worldwide key players providing meteorological and climate services running numerical models. Some major HPC vendors also [...]
The Grand Challenges in Data-Intensive Discovery conference was be held at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) October 26 – 28, 2010. “Gordon” is a new machine funded by NSF with a 20 M$ grant for supporting data-intensive research applications. The machine will go in production in 3Q2011. The conference inaugurated a small predecessor system [...]
The HPC Advisory Council and the Swiss Supercomputing Centre will host the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2011 in the Lugano Convention Centre, Lugano, Switzerland, from March 21-23, 2011. The workshop will focus on High-Performance Computing education, training (including hands-on) and overview of new developments. The workshop will includes the following four sections per day: [...]
Next October 28, the members of the hpc-ch community will meet at ETH Zurich to discuss about parallel file systems for HPC. 35 participants registered to this meeting and will give 9 presentations about this topic. In addition we will the possibility to visit the data center of ETH Zurich hosting Brutus, one of the [...]
More and more Swiss researchers are investigating how to use GPU to speed up their simulations. Because of the increasing relevance of GPU, CSCS organized last September a course on “GPU Programming with CUDA Fortran and the PGI Accelerator Programming Model”. The 20 available places have been quickly been booked up. CSCS plans to repeat [...]