Seattle, WA and Manno, Switzerland – May 17, 2011 – Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. announced that it has signed a contract with the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) to upgrade its current Cray XT5 system, nicknamed “Monte Rosa” to a Cray XE6 supercomputer. The Monte Rosa system at CSCS will be upgraded with Cray’s […]
If you did not have the chance to visit CSCS in the last months, then you can be interested in having a panorama view of the computer room (thanks to Mario Valle for the picture). As viewed from left to right: An old Dell PC used to demonstrate the computing power of a single CPU, […]
On April 21 CSCS announced the relaunch of the newly designed CSCS web site. This redesign introduces a more up-to-date, dynamic layout, which will allow CSCS to better inform the public as well as the users about what is happening at the Center. This update features three new features: a new, dynamic CSCS […]
CSCS announced beginning of April the successful deployment of the SLURM Resource Manager on Rosa (Cray XT5). Slurm was developed by Lawrence Livermore and has been ported to the Cray architecture by the National Supercomputing Services (NSS) team NSS at CSCS. Slurm has been customized with the in-house scheduling algorithm of CSCS. The 1840 node […]
Today, CSCS announced the inauguration of phase D of the «Phoenix» cluster. Phase D increases the computing capabilities of Phoenix by 20% with 240 more cores, and storage increased by 30% with 230 TB, reaching a total of 1392 cores and 1 PB of disk. Phoenix is using the data produced at the LHC particle […]
