Getting Space for the New CSCS Building in Lugano
Work has begun in Cornaredo to host the supercomputers of Swiss National Computing Center (CSCS), which in 2012 will move from Manno. The bulldozers are demolishing the old garage of … Read More
Category: CSCS
CSCS evaluated the ease of use of the PGAS programming model for PRACE
The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe’s work package for future petaflop computer technologies beyond 2010 recently assessed 12 prototypes for next-generation computer architectures. The evaluation included full systems, system … Read More
Agreement between ETH Zurich and USI on Computational Sciences
On 22 February, Zurich and Ticino newspapers (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zürcher Landzeitung, La Regione Ticino, Giornale del Popolo) reported that ETH Zurich has concluded an agreement with the Università della … Read More
Last Days to Register to HPC Council Switzerland Workshop
With more than 100 registered attendees, the HPC Council Switzerland Workshop (Lugano, March 15-17) is having a great success. Download the latest agenda with the list gold ans silver sponsors: … Read More
HP2C Presented at the Hybrid Multicore Consortium
Prof. Thomas Schulthess presented the HP2C initiative at the First Workshop of the Hybrid Multicore Consortium in San Francisco (January, January 20, 2010). Have a look to the different presentations … Read More
Installation of the Phoenix Upgrade for CHIPP
In January 2010 started at CSCS the upgrade of the cluster “Phoenix” that is being used as tier 2 by the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics (CHIPP) in the LHC … Read More
A New Home for Palu: The ENTER Museum for Computer
In a previous blog entry we reported about the Cray XT3, Palu, being decommissioned at CSCS. In the meantime we were able to give a new home to the three … Read More
Decommission of IBM P5 «Blanc» at CSCS
On January 8th, 2010 the compute nodes of «Blanc» an IBM P5 have been switched off and on January 31st, 2010 the login nodes have also be switched off . … Read More
Decommission of «Palu» at CSCS
On January 27th, 2010 the Cray XT3 has reached the end of its life here at CSCS, for the last time the system has been shut down and disassembled. This … Read More
Move of Dôle at CSCS to a New Location
Today the HPC system called “Dôle” has been moved to a new location inside CSCS. Dôle is being used by MeteoSwiss as failover for Buin, the main production system for … Read More
HP2C: First 8 Projects Accepted
The first 8 projects to be supported by HP2C have been accepted. A decision about 4 additional projects is expected in the next weeks. In December 2009, the steering committee … Read More
New computing systems at CSCS for MeteoSwiss
CSCS is providing HPC services to MeteoSwiss for the National daily weather forecast. Since 2007 the service has been provided by Buin (a Cray XT4) as main production system and … Read More