Construction of the New CSCS Building Proceeds at Fast Pace
Construction of the new CSCS building proceeds at fast pace. The shell is almost complete, the roof being built these days. The new data center will house the next generation of … Read More
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Interview with Anton Kozhevnikov, Co-Winner of the Gordon Bell Prize Honorable Mention for Special Achievements in Scalability
Anton Kozhevnikov is one of the co-winner of the Gordon Bell Prize Honorable Mention for Special Achievements in Scalability at last Supercomputing Conference SC10 in New Orleans (see our previous … Read More
Gordon Bell 2010 Prize Honorable Mention for Special Achievements in Scalability to Thomas Schulthess and coworkers
The Gordon Bell Prize 2010 has been awarded at the Supercomputing Conference SC10 in New Orleans yesterday November 18. We are very happy to announce that Prof. Thomas Schulthess (ETH … Read More
Cray’s Gemini Interconnect Wins HPCwire Editors’ Choice Award
Last August we presented Palu, the newest Cray XE6 installed at CSCS. Palu was part of a joint collaboration between Cray and CSCS, to enable CSCS and its user community … Read More
Swiss Contribution to SC10
A look to the schedule of the Supercomputing Conference (SC10) in New Orleans (November 13-19, 2010) shows that Switzerland is being represented in panels, doctoral research showcases and as a … Read More
CSCS Call for Proposal 2011
Since May 2010 Production Project Proposals for CSCS can be submitted at any time. The deadline for the next allocation period (April 1st, 2011) is December 1st, 2010. There are … Read More
Laying the Foundation Stone for CSCS Building in Lugano
Monday, October 18 has been an important day for the implementation of the Swiss National HPC Initiative (HPCN). In Lugano Cornaredo there was the ceremony for the laying of the … Read More
Videos Rosa Introduction Course Summer 2010 Now Online
In Summer 2010 CSCS organized a two days introduction course to Rosa and the Cray environment. The videos of the different presentations are now available online on the multimedia portal … Read More
Record CPU Time in September on Phoenix (LCG2 Grid Cluster)
After upgrading to Phase C and making several improvements during the last months, September 2010 surpassed all Phoenix GRID Cluster records running around 200.000 jobs and computing more than 850.000 … Read More
New Institute of Computational Sciences at Università delle Svizzera italiana
On September 20th, the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) inaugured the new Institute of Computational Sciences (Istituto di scienze computazionali, ICS). The ICS provides a unique research environment, where strong … Read More
New Video Channel “CSCS on CSCS” Opened
CSCS created a video channel named CSCS on CSCS on the multimedia portal of ETH Zurich. On this channel CSCS will publish videos reporting on the supercomputing centre like interviews … Read More
Second cabinet of Cray XE6 installed at CSCS
On September 2, 2010 the second cabinet of the Cray XE6 arrived and was installed at CSCS. Both cabinets are identical and will be interconnected to build a single large … Read More