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
During the opening ceremony of the ISC11 exhibition we asked prof. Rolf Krause of the Università della Svizzera italiana for his impression about the hpc-ch booth. Have a look!
Whether data is processed or deleted in computers, both consume energy. The energy is released as heat. A study has now shown that the heat forming can be avoided, and, … Read More
EPF Lausanne announced today the launch of the ecocloud consortium. The consortium brings several EPFL laboratories together to tackle the skyrocketing electricity demands of Internet data processing centers. At EPFL, … Read More
The HPC Advisory Council will hold the 2011 European Workshop on June 19th, 2011, in conjunction with the ISC’11 conference in Hamburg, Germany. The workshop will focus on HPC productivity, … Read More
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