CSCS evaluated two different PCIe attached SSD devices with various methods for analyzing bandwidth and IOPs. The performance over SATA drives is huge as expected, by a factor of 20 … Read More
Since October 2009 CSCS uses xCAT in some production environments. xCAT is an open source HPC cluster management. It is agile, extendable, and based on years of system administration best … Read More
CSCS will be hosting a three day summer school on parallel programming aimed at graduate students who are new to the world of high performance computing and who wish to … Read More
CSCS will install by the end of June, 2011 a new Cray XMT. James Maltby of Cray presents the new supercomputer and its new possible applications for science and industry. … Read More
The HPC Advisory Council, a leading organization for high-performance computing research, outreach and education, announced that it will honor seven of its members including Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) for … Read More
Whether data is processed or deleted in computers, both consume energy. The energy is released as heat. A study has now shown that the heat forming can be avoided, and, … Read More
The HPC Advisory Council will hold the 2011 European Workshop on June 19th, 2011, in conjunction with the ISC’11 conference in Hamburg, Germany. The workshop will focus on HPC productivity, … Read More
Life from Lugano. Who is it?
Global supercomputing leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq: CRAY) today announced the launch of the Company’s new production hybrid supercomputing system – the Cray XK6 supercomputer – at the 2011 Cray User … Read More
CSCS is pleased to announce the following two courses that will take place in Manno during June. Fast Parallel I/O on HPC systems – 9-10 June 2011 Improved scalability of … Read More
Seattle, WA and Manno, Switzerland – May 17, 2011 – Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. announced that it has signed a contract with the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) to … Read More
If you did not have the chance to visit CSCS in the last months, then you can be interested in having a panorama view of the computer room (thanks to … Read More
