Interview with Ulla Thiel, Vice President for Europe, Cray
It was a great pleasure to have Dr. Ulla Thiel, Vice President Europe at Cray visit the hpc-ch booth at ISC12. Ulla joined Cray in 2004 and currently serves as … Read More
Category: CSCS
CSCS Summer School in Parallel Programming + Scalable Performance Analysis
CSCS is pleased to announce the following courses that will take place in Lugano during August. CSCS Summer School – Introduction to Parallel Programming – 6-8 August 2012 CSCS will … Read More
“Azione” Newspaper Reports on CSCS
The Azione has published an article on CSCS and the new building in Lugano: In his article Loris Fedele explains the role of supercomputing in modern science – how supercomputers … Read More
Partnership to develop next-gen supercomputer announced by CSC, CSCS, SARA and T-Platforms
CSC – The IT Center for Science Ltd., CSCS – The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, SARA – The Dutch national centre for HPC & e-science support, and T-Platforms have announced … Read More
Whamcloud and CSCS Sign Lustre Support Agreement
Whamcloud and CSCS have announced a Lustre support agreement. CSCS has a Lustre-based scratch file system for their flagship supercomputer system, Monte Rosa, which is a 47,872 core Cray XE6. … Read More
“Il Giardino di Albert” on LA1 reports on the CSCS “Super”relocation
On June 3rd, 2012 the RSI LA1 (Radiotelevisione Svizzera Italiana) broadcasted “Il Giardino di Albert” dedicated to the Nanotechnology (“Nanoparticelle e tecnologia informatica”). During the programme, one slot was reserved … Read More
Slidecasts: Using the next-generation Cray XMT (uRiKA) for Large Scale Data Analytics
CSCS, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre organized in May 2012 a course on “Using the next-generation Cray XMT (uRiKA) for Large Scale Data Analytics”. Here are now published the slidecasts … Read More
Interdisciplinary project between CSCS and University of Lugano on Computational Finance funded by Swiss National Science Foundation
Analysis and prediction of financial risks, such as market and credit risks, is one of the central problems in modern economy. An adequate understanding of the available risk data requires … Read More
CSCS, Oak Ridge and NICS paper awarded best paper at Cray User Group 2012, Stuttgart
Tim Robinson, a staff member of CSCS, was awarded best paper at the recent Cray User Group (CUG) meeting in Stuttgart. The paper, entitled “Software usage on Cray systems across … Read More
Swiss Radio DRS3 reporting about CSCS and Supercomputing
The Swiss radio broadcast reported (in German) about CSCS, Supercomputing and the move to the new building in Lugano. DRS3 visited CSCS at the end of April, just after the … Read More
Escape response of small fish tested using a supercomputer
Small fish bend themselves into a ‘C’ shape before they flee from predators. Observations have suggested that this shape helps them to abruptly put the greatest distance possible between themselves … Read More
Reminder: MPI-2.2, MPI 3.0 and PGAS workshop, May 23-25, Lugano
This is a reminder for the Advanced Distributed Memory Parallel Programming: MPI-2.2, MPI-3.0 and PGAS workshop to be held at CSCS in Lugano on 23-25 May, 2012. The goal of … Read More