In May 2012 CSCS organized a course about “Using the next-generation Cray XMT (uRiKA) for Large Scale Data Analytics”. The next-generation Cray XMT (uRiKA) is a massively multithreaded, high performance … Read More
The new CSCS supercomputer named “Piz Daint” is the first and largest Cray XC30 system installed worldwide. Its procurement and installation marks an important milestone in the implementation of the … Read More
After Alistair’s final remarks on OpenACC, the rest of the second day was dedicated to NVIDIA. Peter Messmer started with a general introduction to focus after that on the NVIDIA … Read More
The second day of the course Jeff Poznanovic from CSCS presented the agenda of the day , followed by Alistair Hart wrapping up the tutorial on OpenACC with a second … Read More
Hussein Harake and Brian Sparks report from the second day of the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland 2013 . This is the fourth workshop that has been held in Lugano. With … Read More
The second post sees Alistair Hart talking to the audience about useful strategies for troubleshooting and how to port real applications. OpenACC Tutorial: Useful Strategies for Troubleshooting (Alistair Hart, Cray) … Read More
CSCS has recently upgraded its Cray XK6 platform to Cray XK7 by introducing NVIDIA K20x devices together with CUDA 5, and a new Cray programming environment that includes OpenACC compilers. The goal … Read More
In early 2013 an automated tape library (IBM TS3500) was installed at CSCS increasing the storage capacity up to ~ 27.4 PB petabytes of uncompressed data. The library is composed of 16 … Read More
In the HP2C project “Selectome”, scientists from the University of Lausanne and the SIB Institute of Bioinformatics and members of CSCS have successfully revised a code. It now also runs … Read More
Get “Up to Speed” with Cray Cascade Course CSCS’ next flagship system to be brought into production in April 2013 is a Cray XC30 (Cascade) system with a peak performance … Read More
In the wake of the interest awaken by the CSCS inauguration and the Open Day, on August 31st and September 1st, 2012 respectively, RSI Rete 3 journalist Claudia Demircan and … Read More
On January 9th 2013 CSCS participated in the RSI RETE UNO radio program “Millevoci” to discuss the future of internet. Nicola Colotti invited CSCS associate director Michele De Lorenzi and two … Read More
