The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre CSCS in Lugano, Switzerland, organized on December 10-12, 2012 the course “Getting the best out of multi-core”. Modern multi-core x86 processors have 100 times more … Read More
EPFL scientists have combined two materials with advantageous electronic properties – graphene and molybdenite – into a flash memory prototype that is very promising in terms of performance, size, flexibility … Read More
John Feo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory – Programming the Cray XMT In depth view of the XMT programming from people that use it for their research. John Feo, Pacific Northwest … Read More
James Maltby, Cray – Cray XMT/uRiKA overview An overview of the XMT machine, now rechristened uRiKA, and the strategies it implements to effectively solve problems with irregular structure like graph … Read More
In May 2012 CSCS organized a course about “Using the next-generation Cray XMT (uRiKA) for Large Scale Data Analytics”. The next-generation Cray XMT (uRiKA) is a massively multithreaded, high performance … Read More
The new CSCS supercomputer named “Piz Daint” is the first and largest Cray XC30 system installed worldwide. Its procurement and installation marks an important milestone in the implementation of the … Read More
After Alistair’s final remarks on OpenACC, the rest of the second day was dedicated to NVIDIA. Peter Messmer started with a general introduction to focus after that on the NVIDIA … Read More
The second day of the course Jeff Poznanovic from CSCS presented the agenda of the day , followed by Alistair Hart wrapping up the tutorial on OpenACC with a second … Read More
Hussein Harake and Brian Sparks report from the second day of the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland 2013 . This is the fourth workshop that has been held in Lugano. With … Read More
The second post sees Alistair Hart talking to the audience about useful strategies for troubleshooting and how to port real applications. OpenACC Tutorial: Useful Strategies for Troubleshooting (Alistair Hart, Cray) … Read More
CSCS has recently upgraded its Cray XK6 platform to Cray XK7 by introducing NVIDIA K20x devices together with CUDA 5, and a new Cray programming environment that includes OpenACC compilers. The goal … Read More
The Swiss Numerics Days are series of annual, informal one-day meetings that continue the tradition of the “Journées Suisses d’Analyse Numérique” which were launched in 1976. They aim at bringing … Read More
