Flash Informatique EPFL: special issue on HPC
EPFL is dedicating this year’s last issue of its inhouse Flash Informatique to High Performance Computing. In this special issue we will get a deep insight into some of the … Read More
Category: Academia Members (A-S)
Supercomputers Demonstrate how Bacteria Infect Wounds
The research group led by Viola Vogel, Professor of Biologically Oriented Materials at ETH Zurich, has studied with the help of supercomputers the mechanisms behind the infections of wounds. If … Read More
Construction of the New CSCS Building Proceeds at Fast Pace
Construction of the new CSCS building proceeds at fast pace. The shell is almost complete, the roof being built these days. The new data center will house the next generation of … Read More
Cost and Energy Analysis of Server Rooms at ETH Zurich
We are glad to share with you the results of the Master Thesis (in German) of Christoph Möder entitled «Suggestions for optimizing the server room at the ETH Zurich based … Read More
Interview with Anton Kozhevnikov, Co-Winner of the Gordon Bell Prize Honorable Mention for Special Achievements in Scalability
Anton Kozhevnikov is one of the co-winner of the Gordon Bell Prize Honorable Mention for Special Achievements in Scalability at last Supercomputing Conference SC10 in New Orleans (see our previous … Read More
Gordon Bell 2010 Prize Honorable Mention for Special Achievements in Scalability to Thomas Schulthess and coworkers
The Gordon Bell Prize 2010 has been awarded at the Supercomputing Conference SC10 in New Orleans yesterday November 18. We are very happy to announce that Prof. Thomas Schulthess (ETH … Read More
Cray’s Gemini Interconnect Wins HPCwire Editors’ Choice Award
Last August we presented Palu, the newest Cray XE6 installed at CSCS. Palu was part of a joint collaboration between Cray and CSCS, to enable CSCS and its user community … Read More
Videos of Forum on Parallel File Systems for HPC now Online
The recordings of the last hpc-ch community forum on Parallel file systems for HPC are now online. More than 40 colleagues from all over Switzerland attended the forum. The videos … Read More
Swiss Contribution to SC10
A look to the schedule of the Supercomputing Conference (SC10) in New Orleans (November 13-19, 2010) shows that Switzerland is being represented in panels, doctoral research showcases and as a … Read More
EMPA Joins the hpc-ch Community
We are very happy to announce that Empa joined the hpc-ch community as a regular member. Empa is an interdisciplinary research and services institution for material sciences and technology development … Read More
CSCS Call for Proposal 2011
Since May 2010 Production Project Proposals for CSCS can be submitted at any time. The deadline for the next allocation period (April 1st, 2011) is December 1st, 2010. There are … Read More
Groundbreaking method for computer simulation: Car-Parrinello method turns 25
ETH Life just published an article on the Car-Parrinello method for performing ab-initio quantum mechanical molecular dynamics (MD). Prof. Parrinello, one of the two scientists that created the methods holds … Read More