Neuroscience to Benefit from Hybrid Supercomputer Memory To handle large amounts of data from detailed brain models, IBM, EPF Lausanne, and ETH Zurich are collaborating on a new hybrid memory strategy for supercomputers. This will help the Blue Brain Project and the Human Brain Project achieve their goals. June 12, 2013 – by EPF Lausanne, [...]
We congratulate Yves Ineichen (Paul Scherrer Institute/IBM Research Zurich), Andreas Adelmann (PSI), Costas Bekas (IBM Ruschlikon), Alessandro Curioni (IBM Ruschlikon) & Peter Arbenz (ETH Zurich) who have won the PRACE Award 2012 for their paper A Fast and Scalable Low Dimensional Solver for Charged Particle Dynamics in Large Particle Accelerators Yves and co-authors will receive the [...]
At SC11 David Cremese (IBM Switzerland & Austria) visited the hpc-ch booth. As deep computing sales manager David is also responsible for the Swiss universities and research centers represented at the hpc-ch booth. In the interview David tells us about his function at IBM and what makes Switzerland an interesting market for HPC. He also [...]
ETH Zurich and IBM Rüschlikon announced on May 6th that Aquasar is operational. Aquasar is an HPC system developed together by the two institutions using water to directly cool the integrated circuits. The water with a temperature of about 60 oC is used to heat the building of ETH Zurich. The goal of this research [...]
