First glimpse into birth of the Milky Way For almost 20 years astrophysicists have been trying to recreate the formation of spiral galaxies such as our Milky Way realistically. Now … Read More
Zetta numerical simulation for science and technology zetta.epfl.ch This brand new magazine will be first released February 2012 and will be issued once a year. We accept articles describing research … Read More
The Swiss National Grid Initiative (SwiNG), the Karlsruhe Institute of Technonolgy (KIT) and the Helmholtz Alliance ‘Physics at the Terascale’ organize the GridKa School 2011. GridKa School offers a broad … Read More
Earlier this year, CSCS hosted a tutorial called “Molecular Dynamics Codes on GPGPUs” — it provided an overview of classical molecular dynamics software, showed some benchmarking results, and gave a … Read More
CSCS is happy to announce that the next-generation Cray XMT has been delivered and assembled. During the acceptance tests CSCS were able to reproduce the numbers submitted to the Graph500 … Read More
ETH Board decided on July 8, 2011 to continue to adhere to its strategic plan for 2012-2016 and to support the High-Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN) strategy together with other … Read More
CSCS evaluated two different PCIe attached SSD devices with various methods for analyzing bandwidth and IOPs. The performance over SATA drives is huge as expected, by a factor of 20 … Read More
Since October 2009 CSCS uses xCAT in some production environments. xCAT is an open source HPC cluster management. It is agile, extendable, and based on years of system administration best … Read More
CSCS will be hosting a three day summer school on parallel programming aimed at graduate students who are new to the world of high performance computing and who wish to … Read More
CSCS will install by the end of June, 2011 a new Cray XMT. James Maltby of Cray presents the new supercomputer and its new possible applications for science and industry. … Read More
Isham is a student at the University of Geneva and is working as volunteer at the ISC’11 conference. We asked him about his interest in HPC. Have a look!
The HPC Advisory Council, a leading organization for high-performance computing research, outreach and education, announced that it will honor seven of its members including Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) for … Read More
