Piz Daint #1 in Europe
Piz Daint is No.6 on the TOP500 and the most energy efficient system in the TOP10 “The new entry in the TOP10 is at No. 6 –Piz Daint, a Cray … Read More
Category: CSCS
Piz Daint, the first supercomputer with sustained petaflops-scale performance in Switzerland
The Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) announces that the upgraded Cray XC30 supercomputer “Piz Daint” has exceeded petaflops sustained performance in scientific production runs. At the same time “Piz Daint” … Read More
The long road to exascale computing: Thomas Schulthess on SCW
The last edition of Scientific Computing World asked a number of industry experts the question of how and when we might reach exascale computing. For Thomas Schultess, professor of Computational … Read More
Video: Assembling of NEC Cluster “Mönch” at CSCS
CSCS is operating for professors of ETH Zurich a NEC Cluster called “Mönch”. Mönch is named after a mountain in the Bernese Alps, elevation 4107m. The cluster is a 9 … Read More
TV broadcast: Digital native visiting CSCS
More than 50 students from schools in Ticino visited CSCS to learn about professions related to computer science. The visit was organized together between the office of occupational orientation of … Read More
NVIDIA announces Co-Design Lab for Hybrid Multicore Computing at ETH Zurich
In a blog post NVIDIA announced the creation of the NVIDIA Co-Design Lab for Hybrid Multicore Computing at ETH Zurich. In the post, Peter Messmer, the director of the Co-Design … Read More
Scientific Visualization: In-Silico Modeling for Fracture Fixation in Osteoporotic Bone
The scientific visualization In-Silico Modeling for Fracture Fixation in Osteoporotic Bone will be presented at the SC13 Scientific Visualization Showcase Exhibit in Denver. Authors of the visualization are Juri Steiner … Read More
Spazio ai supercalcolatori: Swiss radio reports about astrophysics and HPC
Laboratori virtuali per far luce sui segreti del cosmo Pianeti, stelle, galassie e l’Universo intero… come nascono ed evolvono quella miriade di oggetti che popolano l’Universo? Dalla formazione dei sistemi … Read More
New insight into the Earth’s deep interior with Cray XE6 Monte Rosa
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
Simulated on CSCS Monte Rosa supercomputer: Sea-ice formation sustained the Little Ice Age
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
CSCS CHRONOS Call for high-impact, challenging and innovative research
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
Programming for GPUs course at CSCS: Introduction to OpenACC 2.0 & CUDA 5.5
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