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
High-performance computing centres use a great deal of electricity. In order to run its new computer centre in Lugano-Cornaredo as energy-efficiently and cost-effectively as possible, CSCS is using the natural … Read More
Once again CSCS together with several other representatives of Swiss universities and institutes goes to Supercomputing 2011. This year conference is held in Seattle, WA from November 12th to 18th. … Read More
We terminate our series of videos from the CSCS User day with an invited presentation of Rustan Khaliullin. Rustan is from the group led by Michele Parrinello, a professor at … Read More
An animation produced by Swiss scientists about the Reversing Magnetic Field of Planet Earth is one of the 16 selected animations for SC11 Scientific Visualization Showcase. The visualization showcase relies … Read More
