Since January 28, researchers from EPFL and the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne have benefitted from a new supercomputer, the BlueGene/Q. This computer is four times more powerful than its predecessor – it can perform 172,000 billion operations per second! With low energy consumption, it also is counted among the Top 10 greenest supercomputers in […]
Dear HPC enthusiasts, Bellatrix is the new EPFL computing cluster managed by DIT. To mark the imminent production start of this new machine, a joint Dell-Intel-EPFL event will take place on Thursday, December 6th High Performance Computing: benefits and critical aspects Power provisioning and energy consumption become major challenges in the field of high performance […]
The latest Green500 list (https://www.top500.org/green500/) has been released today at the SC12 supercomputing conference in Salt Lake City, USA. The purpose of the Green500 is to provide a ranking of the most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world. Two HPC system installed in Switzerland are now ranked in the top 10: Position 4: Todi Cray XK7 […]
On the occasion of its third anniversary, CADMOS (Center for Advanced Modeling Science) invites you to the CADMOS WORKSHOP ON LARGE SCALE COMPUTING. The workshop will be held on September 26-27, 2012 at the Polydome, EPFL. Registration deadline : September 18, 2012. Agenda September 26, 2012 14:00 Opening. A.Quarteroni (EPFL) & B. Chopard (UNIGE) 14:15 […]
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 […]
