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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Monday, October 18 has been an important day for the implementation of the Swiss National HPC Initiative (HPCN). In Lugano Cornaredo there was the ceremony for the laying of the … Read More
Next October 28, the members of the hpc-ch community will meet at ETH Zurich to discuss about parallel file systems for HPC. 35 participants registered to this meeting and will … Read More
In Summer 2010 CSCS organized a two days introduction course to Rosa and the Cray environment. The videos of the different presentations are now available online on the multimedia portal … Read More
After upgrading to Phase C and making several improvements during the last months, September 2010 surpassed all Phoenix GRID Cluster records running around 200.000 jobs and computing more than 850.000 … Read More
On September 20th, the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) inaugured the new Institute of Computational Sciences (Istituto di scienze computazionali, ICS). The ICS provides a unique research environment, where strong … Read More
