Stephan Mohr presents his work on “BigDFT”
At CSCS User Day, Maria-Grazia Giuffreda is briefly interviewing Stephan Mohr, a PhD student in the group of Professor Stefan Goedecker at University of Basel, about his project “BigDFT” and … Read More
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Introduction to OpenACC and CUDA Programming on the Cray XK7 Platform – 18-19 February 2013
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
Slidecast 3/3 – PRACE Summer School on Code Optimisation for Multi-Core and Intel MIC Architectures – Workshop on MIC
The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre CSCS in Lugano, Switzerland, hosted the PRACE Summer School on Code Optimisation for Multi-Core and Intel MIC Architectures on 21-23 June 2012. This third post is dedicated … Read More
Upgrade of GPU accelerators on a Cray XK6 from NVIDIA Fermi to Kepler at CSCS
In October CSCS upgraded the accelerators of the “Tödi” system from NVIDIA Fermi X2090 (Cray XK6) to Kepler K20X (Cray XK7). Have a look at how Cray staff replaced the … Read More
Slidecast 2/3 – PRACE Summer School on Code Optimisation for Multi-Core and Intel MIC Architectures – Multicore Memory Caching Issues
The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre CSCS in Lugano, Switzerland, hosted the PRACE Summer School on Code Optimisation for Multi-Core and Intel MIC Architectures on 21-23 June 2012. This second post is dedicated to … Read More
Slidecast 1/3 – PRACE Summer School on Code Optimisation for Multi-Core and Intel MIC Architectures – Introduction to Vectorization
The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre CSCS in Lugano, Switzerland, hosted the PRACE Summer School on Code Optimisation for Multi-Core and Intel MIC Architectures on 21-23 June 2012. The three day intensive event focused … Read More
Video: Assembling of the Cray XC30 “Piz Daint” at CSCS
The Cray XC30 has arrived at CSCS on December 5th, 2012. After just a few days of assembly it has found its place in the new CSCS machine room, complementing the already … Read More
Call for Registration: First International Conference on ICT for Sustainability ICT4S in Zurich
ICT4S is a joint effort of academia, industry, national and international organizations to take stock of the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in energy efficiency and sustainable development. … Read More
Video: HPC Advisory Council Swiss Workshop Announcement
Hussein Harake (CSCS), Brian Sparks (HPC Advisory Council) and Gilad Shainer (Chairman of the HPC Advisory Council) invite you to participate in the HPC Advisory Council Swiss Workshop to be … Read More
CSCS supercomputers help to understand why pacemakers sometimes don’t help
In certain heart diseases, the left ventricle does not contract simultaneously. Usually, a pacemaker can come to the rescue here. Why this does not help in thirty per cent of … Read More
Video: Direct Numerical Simulation of Flow in Engine-Like Geometries
Jean Favre (CSCS) presents at SC12 a video created together with Martin Schmitt and Christos E. Frouzakis ETH Zurich of direct numerical simulation of flow in engine-like geometries. Internal combustion … Read More
Andreas Born presents his poster on “Computational and storage requirements for earth system modeling”
Andreas Born from the Climate and Environmental Physics group at University of Bern presented at CSCS User Day a poster portraying the work that the entire group has been doing … Read More