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 [...]
Datacenter Knowledge is kindly reporting about the movie with the assembling of the Cray XT 5 supercomputer “Monte Rosa” at CSCS. Even if the video is almost two years old (May 2009), it is still worth to have a look. Read the article on Datacenter Knowledge »
In Summer 2010 CSCS organized a two days introduction course to Rosa and the Cray environment. The videos of the different presentations are now available online on the multimedia portal of CSCS and ETH Zurich. You are invited to have a look to the videos if you want an introduction to parallel computing in general [...]
In June of 2009 Monte Rosa was inaugurated at CSCS. During the last year Rosa has been working day and night providing cycles to the Swiss researcher community. In this year the number of cores used by the jobs increased rapidly: 57% of the jobs use now more than 512 cores and 33% of the [...]
Last July CSCS organized a Cray XT5 code porting workshop with representatives of Cray Inc. and of the University of Zurich. Now the different presentation are available online on the multimedia portal of ETH Zurich. Introduction to XT5 (Software, Operating System, Compilers Vectorization), John Levesque, Cray Inc. Compilers, Luiz De Rose; Cray Inc. Introduction to [...]
