The Monte Rosa supercomputer has been supporting users at CSCS in their scientific research since 2009. There have been hundreds of publications based on its computing power. Now this supercomputer … Read More
Since the end of last year, Switzerland has boasted the most powerful supercomputer in Europe: “Piz Daint”. As of today, it is officially cleared for research. For the approval, “early … Read More
by Peter Rüegg, ETH Zurich It’s a fact: Switzerland’s Piz Daint is the fastest supercomputer in Europe. What’s more, it has now been named the greenest petaflop computer in the … Read More
The Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) announces that the upgraded Cray XC30 supercomputer “Piz Daint” has exceeded petaflops sustained performance in scientific production runs. At the same time “Piz Daint” … Read More
CSCS is operating for professors of ETH Zurich a NEC Cluster called “Mönch”. Mönch is named after a mountain in the Bernese Alps, elevation 4107m. The cluster is a 9 … Read More
The Swiss National Supercomputing Center’s (CSCS) new Cray XC30 supercomputer from computer manufacturer Cray is making its debut at CSCS in Lugano. Cray and CSCS are collaborating to equip this … Read More
The Swiss French TV broadcasted in the main news a reportage about the an IBM BlueGene/Q supercomputer being installed at CSCS for EPFL BlueBrain project. Un surper-ordinateur permettant de simuler … Read More
The Grid Computing Competence Center of the University of Zurich is pleased to announce release 1.0.0 of Elasticluster. Elasticluster is a Python tool to automate the creation, configuration and management … Read More
The new CSCS supercomputer named “Piz Daint” is the first and largest Cray XC30 system installed worldwide. Its procurement and installation marks an important milestone in the implementation of the … Read More
In early 2013 an automated tape library (IBM TS3500) was installed at CSCS increasing the storage capacity up to ~ 27.4 PB petabytes of uncompressed data. The library is composed of 16 … Read More
Since January 28, researchers from EPFL and the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne have benefitted from a new supercomputer, the BlueGene/Q. This computer is four times more powerful than its … Read More
On September 2, 2010 the second cabinet of the Cray XE6 arrived and was installed at CSCS. Both cabinets are identical and will be interconnected to build a single large … Read More
