For 300 years we have known that the Earth’s magnetic field moves gradually westward. Computer simulations on the CSCS super-computer “Monte Rosa” by researchers at ETH Zurich and the University … Read More
Volcanic eruptions and reduced solar radiation caused global cooling between the thirteenth and the fifteenth centuries. The resulting accelerated formation of sea ice in the Northern Seas triggered a positive … Read More
Maria Grazia Giuffreda presented at the CSCS User Meeting 2013 in Lucerne the CHRONOS Call for Proposals. CHRONOS is an annual call for proposals issued by CSCS for high-impact, challenging … Read More
CSCS announces a 3-day training course on GPU programming: Programming for GPUs: Introduction to OpenACC 2.0 & CUDA 5.5 – December 4-6, 2013 Experts from Cray and NVIDIA, together with CSCS … Read More
Researchers from ETH Zurich have successfully demonstrated, for the first time in vivo, how bone tissue responds to local mechanical stimuli that control bone formation. The study reveals how important … Read More
The Swiss National Supercomputing Center’s (CSCS) new Cray XC30 supercomputer from computer manufacturer Cray is making its debut at CSCS in Lugano. Cray and CSCS are collaborating to equip this … Read More
Martedi’ 10 settembre 2013, 20.30-22.00 Conferenza pubblica – Stelle, galassie e bytes: supercalcolatori come laboratori virtuali per l’astrofisica Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte Verità – Ascona Gli astronomi utilizzano i più … Read More
The Gordon Bell Prize is awarded each November at the annual Supercomputing conference (SC). It recognizes outstanding and innovative achievements in applying high-performance computing to the sciences, to engineering, and to large … Read More
The Swiss French TV broadcasted in the main news a reportage about the an IBM BlueGene/Q supercomputer being installed at CSCS for EPFL BlueBrain project. Un surper-ordinateur permettant de simuler … Read More
We would like to invite you to attend a talk by Prof. Childs: Hybrid Parallelism for Visualization and Analysis September 10, 11am CSCS, Via Trevano 131, Lugano, Switzerland Prof. Childs … Read More
Gilad, Hussein and Brian annouced at ISC13 the HPC Advisory Countil Switzerland that will take place for the fifth time in 2014 in Lugano. In additional to the traditional hands … Read More
CSCS-USI Autumn School on GPU-enabled numerical libraries, September 14-15, 2013 The Swiss Graduate Program FoMICS “Foundations in Mathematics and Informatics for Computer Simulations in Science and Engineering” in cooperation with … Read More
