After a long trip we’ve arrived in Salt Lake City. The snow storm made the trip to Utah more exciting than expected(!). Christian and Davide posed for a photo with the parcel containing our booth materials. On Sunday we (Angela, Christian, Davide, Hussein, Michele and Johannes) spent the day assembling the booth, and here is [...]
With 46 participants (registration is now closed), the next hpc-ch forum on “Handling huge amounts of data for HPC” will be the largest forum organized by our community. We are very happy that so many people will visit Lugano and participate to this event jointly organized by CSCS and USI. Setting the Scope Many scientific [...]
This year the Swiss HPC provider community hpc-ch participated in the ISC12 exhibition in Hamburg again. Like last year, our booth had a great success with a large number of visitors. According to our lead retrieval system (visitor batches scanned at our booth) we had a total of 189 different visitors, placing our booth in [...]
We are happy to welcome @datanami as our 100th follower on Twitter. Datanami is a news portal dedicated to providing insight, analysis and up-to-the-minute information about emerging trends and solutions in big data. Big data is an important topic also in Switzerland. For example on October 25th, 2012 all the hpc-ch community will meet at [...]
Setting the Scope In this forum we would like to discuss the different aspects related to providing an infrastructure for the HPC systems we are operating. In many institutions the factors limiting HPC are not the available personnel or monetary resources but simply the available resources where new systems are to be installed. Providing an [...]