Cray XC30 Piz Daint at CSCS: Powerful and green
by Peter Rüegg, ETH Zurich It’s a fact: Switzerland’s Piz Daint is the fastest supercomputer in Europe. What’s more, it has now been named the greenest petaflop computer in the … Read More
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Join us at SC13: BoF High-Performance Communications for High-Performance Computing
We are very happy to announce, that we will be able to have a BoF session at SC13 in Denver. Reserve already now the date: Wednesday, November 20, 12:15PM – … Read More
Gordon Bell Prize finalist at SC13: Quantum leap in superconductor simulation
Researchers from ETH Zurich have developed an algorithm that simulates high-temperature superconductivity much faster. The team was nominated as one of the Gordon Bell Prize finalists for the project and … Read More
Piz Daint #1 in Europe
Piz Daint is No.6 on the TOP500 and the most energy efficient system in the TOP10 “The new entry in the TOP10 is at No. 6 –Piz Daint, a Cray … Read More
Piz Daint, the first supercomputer with sustained petaflops-scale performance in Switzerland
The Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) announces that the upgraded Cray XC30 supercomputer “Piz Daint” has exceeded petaflops sustained performance in scientific production runs. At the same time “Piz Daint” … Read More
The long road to exascale computing: Thomas Schulthess on SCW
The last edition of Scientific Computing World asked a number of industry experts the question of how and when we might reach exascale computing. For Thomas Schultess, professor of Computational … Read More
Video: Assembling of NEC Cluster “Mönch” at CSCS
CSCS is operating for professors of ETH Zurich a NEC Cluster called “Mönch”. Mönch is named after a mountain in the Bernese Alps, elevation 4107m. The cluster is a 9 … Read More
TV broadcast: Digital native visiting CSCS
More than 50 students from schools in Ticino visited CSCS to learn about professions related to computer science. The visit was organized together between the office of occupational orientation of … Read More
NVIDIA announces Co-Design Lab for Hybrid Multicore Computing at ETH Zurich
In a blog post NVIDIA announced the creation of the NVIDIA Co-Design Lab for Hybrid Multicore Computing at ETH Zurich. In the post, Peter Messmer, the director of the Co-Design … Read More
Scientific Visualization: In-Silico Modeling for Fracture Fixation in Osteoporotic Bone
The scientific visualization In-Silico Modeling for Fracture Fixation in Osteoporotic Bone will be presented at the SC13 Scientific Visualization Showcase Exhibit in Denver. Authors of the visualization are Juri Steiner … Read More
Spazio ai supercalcolatori: Swiss radio reports about astrophysics and HPC
Laboratori virtuali per far luce sui segreti del cosmo Pianeti, stelle, galassie e l’Universo intero… come nascono ed evolvono quella miriade di oggetti che popolano l’Universo? Dalla formazione dei sistemi … Read More
New insight into the Earth’s deep interior with Cray XE6 Monte Rosa
For 300 years we have known that the Earth’s magnetic field moves gradually westward. Computer simulations on the CSCS super-computer “Monte Rosa” by researchers at ETH Zurich and the University … Read More