Slidecast: New HSM over GPFS/TSM at CSCS
Stefano Gorini (CSCS) presented at the HPC Advisory Council in Lugano the storage of CSCS based on a GPFS / HSM solution. The GPFS filesystem at CSCS QFS/SAM-FS to GPFS … Read More
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Slidecast: HPC Disaster Recovery at CSCS, Hussein N. Harake
At the last HPC Advisory Council Workshop in Lugano Hussein N. Harake presented how the storage disaster recovery is implemented at CSCS based on HSM solution of IBM. Contents: Overview … Read More
Call for Papers: ICT for Sustainability Conference (ICT4S) in Zurich
Sustainability is an important not only for ICT in general but also for HPC. Next year Zurich will host an important conference about ICT for Sustainability. If you are interested … Read More
Call for Submission and Registration: First European Trilinos User Group Meeting at EPFL
The first European Trilinos User Group Meeting (EuroTUG 2012) will take place at EPFL Lausanne from June 4th to 6th 2012. Agenda (Preliminary) Monday June 4th, afternoon Trilinos Tutorial (Mike Heroux) … Read More
Gilad Shainer and Hussein El-Harake comment the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2012
Gilad Shainer (HPC Advisory Council) and Hussein El-Harake are two of the main organisators of the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2012 (Lugano, Switzerland). Gilad and Hussein discuss about the … Read More
ISC Events and ETH Life Reporting about move of CSCS
Different online media are now reporting about the move of CSCS to the new building. One example is the blog of the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany (ISC) publishing an … Read More
Efficiency of clusters used by CSCS to analyze CERN data up to 20% higher than comparable ones
On Feb. 16 2012, the ATLAS I/O performance tests ran a CSCS showed that the current configuration of Phoenix, the cluster providing service to the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics, … Read More
Video: Plate tectonics modelled realistically, Interview with Fabio Crameri, ETH Zurich
ETH Zurich scientists have for the first time succeeded in realistically simulating how an oceanic plate sinks of its own accord under an adjacent plate. At the same time they … Read More
Zetta – The new EPFL magazine about HPC
We would like to congratulate Vittoria Rezzonico per the publication of the first number of Zetta – Numerical Simulation for Science and Technology, the new EPFL magazine about HPC (see … Read More
Workshop on IT Security and Threats – Register now
IT security is an important topic also for HPC. We would like to invite you to participate (free of charge) to a Topic Forum of the Swiss IT Intelligence Community … Read More
First Impressions of the new CSCS Building
Last week CSCS started moving from the old location in Manno to the new building in Lugano. The first to move have been the employees not related to the operations … Read More
First Realistic Simulation of How an Oceanic Plate Sinks of its Own Accord Under an Adjacent One
CSCS just reported that ETH Zurich scientists have for the first time succeeded in realistically simulating how an oceanic plate sinks of its own accord under an adjacent plate. At … Read More