University of Zurich takes a stake in CSCS supercomputer
In May the Executive Board gave approval for the expansion of supercomputing at CSCS. The University of Zurich will contribute to the cost of one new computer. ETH Zurich is … Read More
Category: CSCS
CSCS going to 100 gigabit Internet connection
High-end connection for rapid large-volume data transfer The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) has become Switzerland’s first service provider for the scientific community to offer a high-performance, 100 gigabit per … Read More
Interview with John Biddiscombe about remote in-situ visualization at SC14
During SC14 John Biddiscombe (CSCS) gave at the hpc-ch a ParaView demo of Bonsai running on Cray XC30 “Piz Daint” at CSCS. A galaxy simulation is rendered live in-situ on … Read More
HPC Advisory Council Conference Switzerland 2015 annoucement
Hussein Harake (CSCS) and Brian Sparks (HPC Advisory Council) announced during SC14 the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2015 in Lugano Convention Centre “Palazzo dei Congressi,” Lugano, Switzerland, from March … Read More
Real time In-Situ visualization of the Milky Way from CSCS at SC14
Scientists are using Piz Daint’s graphics processors to simulate the Milky Way at an unprecedented resolution and visualize the results in real time. November 19, 2014 – by Simone Ulmer … Read More
Researching how stars explode
Supernovae are exploding stars. The light from the explosion and its remnants enable numerous conclusions to be drawn about the former star. To this day, however, it has not been … Read More
2-day course on “Practical Performance Analysis of Parallel Applications” at CSCS
CSCS is pleased to announce a 2-day training course on Practical Performance Analysis of Parallel Applications which will take place at CSCS in Lugano on 6-7 October, 2014. The course … Read More
Slidecast: Node Level Performance Engineering Course at CSCS
CSCS organized May 15-17 a 2-day training course aimed to teach performance engineering approaches on the compute node level. “Performance engineering” is intended as developing a thorough understanding of the interactions between software … Read More
CSCS First Call for Proposals 2015 – Allocation period starting on 1 April 2015
This is a reminder for the next CSCS call of proposals If you wish to be considered for the allocation period starting on 1 April 2015 , then you need … Read More
Slidecasts of the plenary presentations at PASC14
The slidecasts of the PASC14 conference hosted at ETH Zurich in June 2-3, 2014 are now available. The goal of the conference has been to bringing together all scientists and … Read More
Slidecast: Introduction to hybrid Cray XC30 course
CSCS organized last March (24-27 March) a 4-day training course on “Piz Daint”, CSCS hybrid Cray XC30 system. “Piz Daint” has 5.272 compute nodes (with Intel® Xeon® E5-2670 and NVIDIA® … Read More
Piz Daint ranked the fastest supercomputer in Europe in TOP500 list
ISC14 (International Supercomputing Conference) announced on Monday the new TOP500 list, which classifies supercomputers according to their processing power, just this morning. The list ranks Piz Daint of CSCS as the sixth … Read More