CSCS Training Course Reminder – May/June 2010
The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) will be hosting the following training courses during the months of May and June 2010. We still have some places available in each course … Read More
Category: Academia Members (A-S)
Call for presentations and partecipants: Forum on OS for HPC and Installation Methods
Dear members and guests of the hpc-ch community, We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming hpc-ch forum on Operating Systems for HPC and Installation Methods to be held … Read More
Swiss Engineering STZ Reports on Weather Forecasts on Supercomputer at CSCS
The last issue of the Swiss Engineering STZ journal reports on how metereologists use modern supercomputer for weather forecasts. One article in particular reports on the collaboration between MeteoSwiss and … Read More
Swiss Grid School 2010
SwiNG (the Swiss National Grid Association) is organising the 2nd Swiss Grid School 2010 (SGS’10) – Lugano, 22-24 June 2010. SGS’10 (http://sgs2010.inf.usi.ch/) aims at transferring Grid knowledge to academia, research … Read More
Phoenix PhaseC Upgrade Passed Acceptance Test
CSCS is happy to announce that Phoenix PhaseC Upgrade passed today the acceptance test. Phoenix is a HPC system run by CSCS used by the researchers of the Swiss Institute … Read More
CERN: LHC research programme gets underway
Today has been a special day here at CSCS for the HPC Co-Location Services team: We were following with crossed fingers the first collisions of the LHC collider at CERN. … Read More
LHC First Physics: Today Live Webcast
Today marks the start of the LHC research programme with the first attempt for collisions at 7 TeV (3.5 TeV per beam). Webcasts are available until 18:15 (Central European Summer … Read More
Successful Closing of the HPC Advisory Council
The HPC Advisory Council in Lugano has been a great success. More than 100 participants cold follow the technical presentations and the hands-on tutorials. On the evening of the last … Read More
Follow the HPC Advisory Council on twitter
One of our members is reporting live from the HPC Advisory Council on twitter: Stay tuned on @arzela (see also the right column of this page). If you also would … Read More
HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop Started Today
The HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2010 started today in Lugano. With more than 110 registered persons this is the largest conference ever dedicated to HPC technologies in Swutzerland. Main … Read More
Getting Space for the New CSCS Building in Lugano
Work has begun in Cornaredo to host the supercomputers of Swiss National Computing Center (CSCS), which in 2012 will move from Manno. The bulldozers are demolishing the old garage of … Read More
CSCS evaluated the ease of use of the PGAS programming model for PRACE
The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe’s work package for future petaflop computer technologies beyond 2010 recently assessed 12 prototypes for next-generation computer architectures. The evaluation included full systems, system … Read More