Slidecasts of the plenary presentations at PASC14
The slidecasts of the PASC14 conference hosted at ETH Zurich in June 2-3, 2014 are now available. The goal of the conference has been to bringing together all scientists and … Read More
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Slidecast: Introduction to hybrid Cray XC30 course
CSCS organized last March (24-27 March) a 4-day training course on “Piz Daint”, CSCS hybrid Cray XC30 system. “Piz Daint” has 5.272 compute nodes (with Intel® Xeon® E5-2670 and NVIDIA® … Read More
Piz Daint ranked the fastest supercomputer in Europe in TOP500 list
ISC14 (International Supercomputing Conference) announced on Monday the new TOP500 list, which classifies supercomputers according to their processing power, just this morning. The list ranks Piz Daint of CSCS as the sixth … Read More
Forum on cloud computing and virtualisation for HPC
An important shift in the provisioning of computing resources happened in 2006 when Amazon started offering cloud computing to external customers as Amazon Web Services (AWS). Since then additional large … Read More
Slidecast from the CSCS User Meeting 2014
In recent years CSCS used to organize an annual User Day that gave you an update on CSCS roadmap, projects, and developments going on, and at the same time offered … Read More
Scientific supercomputing in the spotlight @PASC14
Almost 250 researchers flocked to the first PASC conference at ETH Zurich to take part in an interdisciplinary meeting on the use of high-performance computing (HPC) in computational science. The … Read More
43th SPEEDUP Workshop on High Performance Computing, Geneva
43th SPEEDUP Workshop on High Performance Computing, September 4/5, 2014, at the University of Geneva The intention of this workshop is to present and discuss the state-of-the-art in high-performance and … Read More
Slidecasts (2/2): Visualization and Graphics Tutorial at CSCS
This is the second part of the slidecasts of the two day course on visualization and graphics organized by CSCS in Lugano. Speaker was Jean Favre (CSCS). VisIt, an open-source turn-key … Read More
Slidecasts (1/2): Visualization and Graphics Tutorial at CSCS
CSCS organized in January a two day course on visualization and graphics. Speaker was Jean Favre (CSCS). We publish the slidecasts of the course starting with day 1. Introduction, objectives Matplotlib, … Read More
Public Talk at PASC14 Conference by Petros Koumoutsakos
Computer simulations for health and safety High-performance computing may seem a far cry from our everyday lives, but appearances can be deceptive. Storm warnings take their cue from weather simulations … Read More
Call for presentations and participants: hpc-ch Forum on Cloud Computing and Virtualisation for HPC
The hpc-ch community meets twice a year to discuss different topics related to the management and operations of HPC systems. The first meeting of 2014 will be hosted together by … Read More
PASC14 Conference – Call for Registration
The agenda of the PASC14 Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC14) Conference that will take place June 2-3, 2014 at ETH Zurich, Switzerland is now online Registration and the preliminary … Read More