In the last number of “Flash Informatique” at EPFL you can read an article by Vittoria Rezzonico about free software for HPC. Since the Beowulf revolution, High Performance Computing (HPC) … Read More
At the hpc-ch booth at SC11 you could have read on a signboard that CSCS is a proud member of the HPC Advisory Board. Brian Sparks, a representative of the … Read More
SUNNYVALE, CA. and LUGANO, SWITZERLAND – Dec. 12, 2011 – The HPC Advisory Council, a leading organization for high-performance computing research, outreach and education, and CSCS, the Swiss National Supercomputing … Read More
Vittoria Rezzonico is the new Computational Sciences and Engineering Coordinator at EPFL. In this function Vittoria has become the reference person at EPFL for HPC issues and she is coordinating … Read More
George Lake is professor for astrophysics at the University of Zurich (UZH). At his visit to the hpc-ch booth at SC11 we interviewed him about his research activities. George told … Read More
Torsten Hoefler, currently Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, USA, has been appointed as Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Computational Science at ETH Zurich. Torsten Hoefler … Read More
Nicola Bianchi (CSCS) presents the last supercomputer arrival at CSCS: The Cray XK6 supercomputer which is a trifecta of scalar, network and many-core innovation. It combines Cray’s proven Gemini interconnect, … Read More
Stephen Trofinoff (CSCS) presents how to schedule GRES resources with SLURM. Download the slides of the presentation (PDF) »
CSCS has experience of operating multi-purpose GPU clusters for a diverse project and service portfolio. Vincenzo Annaloro (CSCS) presents details on system installation and operation for two clusters: a production … Read More
While the peak performance and energy efficiency of computing hardware are constantly growing, the development of fast scientific software is experiencing an important paradigm shift. Efficient algorithm implementations face rigid … Read More
In this presentation Adrian Ulrich (ETH Zurich) shares his experience with Nvidia CUDA, AMD FireStream and Platform LSF. Download the slides of the presentation (PDF) »
In October hpc-ch organized together with the University of Basel a Forum on the Use of GPU and Accelerators for HPC. In a series of articles we publish the videos … Read More
