The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) supports Swiss scientist in all matters concerning supercomputing and scientific computing. Until October 14th 2011 new requests for compute time for large projects can … Read More
Lucio Mayer and his team simulated for the first time worldwide the birth of the Milky Way. The results stimulated many discussions in online forums. Lucio answers our questions. Lucio, … Read More
This week AMD announced the shipment of the first processors based on its new x86 “Bulldozer” architecture to CSCS and other supercomputer centers. The processors will be used to upgrade … Read More
Christoph Grab is professor for experimental physics at ETH Zurich and coordinates the computing infrastructure for the Swiss particle physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment at CERN. In … Read More
CSCS has been interview by Swiss Italian radio about the results of the ERIS simulation of Lucio Mayer. [audio:http://user.cscs.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/customers/cscs/Multimedia/Cronache_Svizzera_Italiana_ERIS.mp3|titles=Cronache della Svizzera Italiana ERIS]
In 2011, the Board of Trustees of the Marcel-Benoist-Foundation under the chairmanship of Federal Councillor Didier Burkhalter will award the Marcel-Benoist-Prize to Michele Parrinello. The award is in recognition of … Read More
CSCS organised a 2 and half-day intensive course focused on multi-threaded programming, tuning and optimization and multi-threaded libraries on massively parallel processing (MPP) systems that are composed of multi-core processors. … Read More
hpc-ch interviewed Lucio Mayer, Professor at the Unversity of Zurich about simulating the birth of a galaxy. For this work his research group used the HPC resources at the Swiss … Read More
First glimpse into birth of the Milky Way For almost 20 years astrophysicists have been trying to recreate the formation of spiral galaxies such as our Milky Way realistically. Now … Read More
Earlier this year, CSCS hosted a tutorial called “Molecular Dynamics Codes on GPGPUs” — it provided an overview of classical molecular dynamics software, showed some benchmarking results, and gave a … Read More
CSCS is happy to announce that the next-generation Cray XMT has been delivered and assembled. During the acceptance tests CSCS were able to reproduce the numbers submitted to the Graph500 … Read More
ETH Board decided on July 8, 2011 to continue to adhere to its strategic plan for 2012-2016 and to support the High-Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN) strategy together with other … Read More
