The new CSCS supercomputer named “Piz Daint” is the first and largest Cray XC30 system installed worldwide. Its procurement and installation marks an important milestone in the implementation of the national high performance supercomputing strategy. In the beginning of April the system will be made available to Swiss researchers. In a collaboration with Cray and [...]
In October CSCS upgraded the accelerators of the “Tödi” system from NVIDIA Fermi X2090 (Cray XK6) to Kepler K20X (Cray XK7). Have a look at how Cray staff replaced the old graphical processing units with the new ones. Named after Tödi in the west part of the Glarus Alps, elevation 3614m. Tödi has 272 nodes, [...]
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 has the pleasure to invite you to the Workshop on Big Data and Graph Analysis on the new Cray uRiKA that will be held in Lugano at the new CSCS facilities next May 21-22. Speakers will be John Feo and Oreste Villa from Pacific Northwest Laboratories and application experts from Cray. May 21 – [...]
CSCS is pleased to announce the course Monte Rosa Upgrade: Introduction Course – Interlagos/Gemini“ on November 7-9, 2011 at CSCS Manno. The introduction course will provide both existing and new users an introduction to the upgraded “Monte Rosa” system including detailed information regarding the Cray XE6 hardware, software architectures and programming environments. The course will [...]
