We would like to congratulate Vittoria Rezzonico per the publication of the first number of Zetta – Numerical Simulation for Science and Technology, the new EPFL magazine about HPC (see also zetta.epfl.ch). Zetta will be published once a year. Vittoria describes in an article on Flash Informatique the scope of Zetta: “Cette nouvelle revue… s’appellera [...]
In the last number of “Flash Informatique” at EPFL you can read an article by Vittoria Rezzonico about free software for HPC. Since the Beowulf revolution, High Performance Computing (HPC) has been taken over not only by clusters built from commodity hardware, but also by free software. Starting from the operating system, up to the [...]
Zetta numerical simulation for science and technology zetta.epfl.ch This brand new magazine will be first released February 2012 and will be issued once a year. We accept articles describing research using HPC resources as well as contributions describing services and infrastructures available to the EPFL HPC community. We are open to contributions from EPFL and [...]
EPF Lausanne announced today the launch of the ecocloud consortium. The consortium brings several EPFL laboratories together to tackle the skyrocketing electricity demands of Internet data processing centers. At EPFL, twelve laboratories are joining their expertise to form the ecocloud consortium, launched today in a special event at the Rolex Learning Center. Its objective is [...]
EPF Lausanne has recently made available to its user community a new compute server based on a hybrid CPU-GPU architecture called «Electra». This resource is designed as a test facility for new developments and the porting of existing algorithms and codes, as well as for production purposes. Read an article describing «Electra» on Flash informatique [...]
