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
The European Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications (ENUMATH) conferences are a forum for discussion of basic aspects and new trends in numerical mathematics and challenging scientific and industrial applications on … Read More
In early 2013 an automated tape library (IBM TS3500) was installed at CSCS increasing the storage capacity up to ~ 27.4 PB petabytes of uncompressed data. The library is composed of 16 … Read More
Researchers at EPFL have discovered a new way of emitting photons one at a time. They have constructed semiconductor nanowires with “quantum dots” of unprecedented quality – a discovery with … Read More
Since January 28, researchers from EPFL and the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne have benefitted from a new supercomputer, the BlueGene/Q. This computer is four times more powerful than its … Read More
