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
Category: CSCS
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
PRACE-1IP kick-off meeting in Garching, Germany
On 30-31 August 2010 the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, LRZ) in Garching near Munich hosted the kick-off meeting of the First Implementation Phase Project of PRACE (PRACE-1IP). The Partnership for … Read More
CSCS Appointed by HPC Advisory Council to Center of Excellence
The HPC Advisory Council, a leading worldwide organization for high-performance computing research, development, outreach and education, announced the formation of its regional Centers of Excellence, broadening the scope and mission … Read More
First Cray XE6 Supercomputer installed at CSCS
CSCS, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, is pleased to announce the successful installation of an early-release version of the new Cray XE6 supercomputing architecture manufactured by Cray Inc. The single … Read More
Easier Access to the CSCS Video Productions
The videos produced by CSCS can now easily be accessed over the multimedia portal of ETH Zurich. A special flash interface allows to easily browse through the videos to search … Read More
Monte Rosa: One Year Later
In June of 2009 Monte Rosa was inaugurated at CSCS. During the last year Rosa has been working day and night providing cycles to the Swiss researcher community. In this … Read More