The Gordon Bell Prize 2010 has been awarded at the Supercomputing Conference SC10 in New Orleans yesterday November 18. We are very happy to announce that Prof. Thomas Schulthess (ETH Zurich and CSCS), Anton Kozhevnikov (ETH Zurich) and Adolfo G. Eguiluz (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) received the honorable mention for special achievments in scalability for […]
Last August we presented Palu, the newest Cray XE6 installed at CSCS. Palu was part of a joint collaboration between Cray and CSCS, to enable CSCS and its user community to undertake testing and early familiarization with Cray’s next generation hardware and software technologies. At the 2010 Supercomputing Conference in New Orleans, LA, Cray Inc. […]
A look to the schedule of the Supercomputing Conference (SC10) in New Orleans (November 13-19, 2010) shows that Switzerland is being represented in panels, doctoral research showcases and as a ACM Gordon Bell Finalist. Will Sawyer (CSCS) will be chair of the technological thrust area Addressing Climate Change Uncertainties. Each year, the SC Technical Program […]
Since May 2010 Production Project Proposals for CSCS can be submitted at any time. The deadline for the next allocation period (April 1st, 2011) is December 1st, 2010. There are only two allocation periods per year, that is on April 1st and October 1st. For the next allocation period starting on April 1st 2011 all projects […]
ETH Life just published an article on the Car-Parrinello method for performing ab-initio quantum mechanical molecular dynamics (MD). Prof. Parrinello, one of the two scientists that created the methods holds a dual professorship at ETH Zurich and the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano from 2011. The method has been developed 25 years ago and […]
