On Feb. 16 2012, the ATLAS I/O performance tests ran a CSCS showed that the current configuration of Phoenix, the cluster providing service to the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics, outperforms in terms of efficiency all other WLCG Tier-2 sites in the world. These tests, called HammerCloud, are periodically executed on the sites and the […]
ETH Zurich scientists have for the first time succeeded in realistically simulating how an oceanic plate sinks of its own accord under an adjacent plate. At the same time they showed why only one of the plates rather than both subducts into the Earth’s mantle, and how this process affects the dynamics of the Earth’s […]
Last week CSCS started moving from the old location in Manno to the new building in Lugano. The first to move have been the employees not related to the operations of the supercomputers. The supercomputers together with the technical staff will start moving by the end of March. The move to Lugano started with a […]
CSCS just reported that ETH Zurich scientists have for the first time succeeded in realistically simulating how an oceanic plate sinks of its own accord under an adjacent plate. At the same time the scientists showed why only one of the plates rather than both subducts into the Earth’s mantle, and how this process affects […]
CSCS announced the detailed agenda of the Programming GPU Devices using OpenACC Directives on the Cray XK6 March, 6-7 2012 CSCS in Manno The registration fee is of CHF 150 including the coffee breaks. Registration and agenda » Participants will learn about the Cray XK6 hybrid multi-core and GPU architecture and its programming environment. They […]
