CSCS, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, is pleased to announce the successful installation of an early-release version of the new Cray XE6 supercomputing architecture manufactured by Cray Inc. The single cabinet, 20 blade system, contains 160 compute sockets and uses the new 2.1GHz, 12-core AMD Opteron (aka Magny-Cours) CPUs for a total of 1920 compute [...]
The videos produced by CSCS can now easily be accessed over the multimedia portal of ETH Zurich. A special flash interface allows to easily browse through the videos to search for relevant content. The videos can also be downloaded in different file format and with different quality and file sizes. So they can used for [...]
In June of 2009 Monte Rosa was inaugurated at CSCS. During the last year Rosa has been working day and night providing cycles to the Swiss researcher community. In this year the number of cores used by the jobs increased rapidly: 57% of the jobs use now more than 512 cores and 33% of the [...]
The President of ETH Zurich, Ralph Eichler, the ETH Board has appointed Markus Püschel at present Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA, as full Professor of Informatics. Markus Püschel’s research interests combine techniques from mathematics, computer science and engineering. His interdisciplinary research will strengthen cooperation [...]
The talk of Ladina Gilly on “Neubau CSCS in Lugano Cornaredo” for the Energy Science Colloquia (Energy Science Center, ETH Zurich) is now available online. Have a look at the video »
