In the wake of the interest awaken by the CSCS inauguration and the Open Day, on August 31st and September 1st, 2012 respectively, RSI Rete 3 journalist Claudia Demircan and Maria Grazia Giuffreda, head of the user support, are revealing the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre to the “BAOBAB” audience. Sulla scia dell’interesse suscitato dall’inaugurazione del CSCS [...]
The Swiss Italian Radio (RSI) recently broadcast an item on the new CSCS building and the scientific projects running here in their programme ”Scintille”. They interviewed Michele De Lorenzi, associate director at CSCS, and two professors from ETH Zurich, Günther Dissertori (particle physics) and Marcella Carollo (astrophysics). Listen to the broadcast »
CSCS opened its doors to the public last Saturday from 10am to 5pm. Visitors were greeted with tours of the computer centre building, staff giving detailed information about all matters surrounding supercomputing with posters and on-screen presentations and scientists explaining what they use supercomputers for. The number of visitors was overwhelming: as early as 9:30am [...]
The new building for Switzerland’s national supercomputing centre (CSCS) has been inaugurated 31 August 2012 by Federal Councillor Alain Berset. The construction of the new building was made possible thanks to the national supercomputing and networking strategy. High-performance-computing has become a key element in securing scientific competitiveness. Demand for compute power from scientists continues to [...]
In early March, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre moved in the new building in Lugano-Cornaredo. This is asked for a celebration to share with the city of Lugano, the Canton Ticino and the entire Switzerland. On Saturday September 1st, 2012 CSCS open its doors, each and everyone of you is welcome to visit the new center. The impressive pillarfree machine [...]
