Video: First Cray XK6 Worldwide Just Powered Up at CSCS
Engineers of Cray are powering up for the first time worldwide a Cray XK6 delivered to a customer. CSCS was the first supercomputing centre signing a contract with Cray for … Read More
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Agenda of hpc-ch Forum on the Use of GPU and Accelerators for HPC
More than 30 members of the hpc-ch will participate to the next forum on «the Use of GPU and Accelerators for HPC» Thursday 27th October 2011 hosted by University of … Read More
Ambassador of the United States of America visits CSCS
The American ambassador Donald Beyer was given a glimpse into the computer infrastructure and day-to-day work at CSCS. A technology and science enthusiast, the diplomat was suitably impressed. American Ambassador … Read More
State-of-the-art seismic imaging at the CSCS User Day
The CSCS User Day brought together around 60 users in Lucerne on 23 September. Exciting scientific lectures, lively two-minute personal poster presentations by scientists and discussions were the order of … Read More
CH2011 – CSCS Supercomputers Compute Climate Scenarios for Switzerland
It is getting warmer in Switzerland and dryer in summer, and climate change will also affect the frequency and character of extreme events. Climate scientists of C2SM Competence Centre (Center … Read More
Call for presentations and participants: Forum on the Use of GPU and Accelerators for HPC
Thursday 27 October 2011, 10:00 – 17:00, hosted by Universität Basel Setting the Scope In the last years the interest in using Graphics Processing Units (GPU) for HPC computing has … Read More
CSCS Evaluation of RamSan-70 SSD Device – Highest IOPS Ever Measured
CSCS evaluated two PCIe attached SSD devices manufactured by Texas Memory Systems in terms of I/O bandwidth and IOPs. One of them is the recently launched “RamSan-70 Gorilla” card designed … Read More
Supercomputer at CSCS Demonstrates How Diamonds Emerge from Graphite
The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) reported today how the group of professor Michele Parrinello demonstrated how diamonds emerge from graphite by using the Monte Rosa Cray XT5 supercomputer. For … Read More
CSCS to Grant 250 mio CPU Hours on Cray XE6 for next Allocation Period
The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) supports Swiss scientist in all matters concerning supercomputing and scientific computing. Until October 14th 2011 new requests for compute time for large projects can … Read More
Q&A with Lucio Mayer about ERIS, the first simulation of the birth of the Milky Way
Lucio Mayer and his team simulated for the first time worldwide the birth of the Milky Way. The results stimulated many discussions in online forums. Lucio answers our questions. Lucio, … Read More
AMD Ships First “Bulldozer” Processors to CSCS and other High End Installations
This week AMD announced the shipment of the first processors based on its new x86 “Bulldozer” architecture to CSCS and other supercomputer centers. The processors will be used to upgrade … Read More
Interview with Christoph Grab – First Results from the LHC Experiment and the Role of HPC
Christoph Grab is professor for experimental physics at ETH Zurich and coordinates the computing infrastructure for the Swiss particle physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment at CERN. In … Read More