Mountain forests in the Alps react very differently but noticeably to a warmer climate. Even if the target of limiting the Earth’s average temperature increase to 2 degrees were met, … Read More
A new-generation analog-to-digital converter (ADC) developed by a joint IBM-EPFL team has the potential to greatly increase the speed and volume of data that can be transferred over the Internet. … Read More
The Grid Computing Competence Center (GC3) at the University of Zurich (UZH) together with FGCZ (Functional Genomics Center Zurich), and SystemsX.ch will present at the International Supercomputing Conference 2013 (ISC13) … Read More
Peter Kunszt of ETH Zurich and Sergio Maffioletti of University of Zurich invite you to join the Academic Compute Cloud Experience Workshop, April 29th 2013 to be held at ETH … Read More
Getting the best out of multi-core, 10-12 December 2012 – Course organized by Swiss National Supercomputing Centre CSCS, Lugano, Switzerland. Optimizing a Memory-bound Application – Making the Laplacian Fast Benjamin … Read More
Getting the best out of multi-core, 10-12 December 2012 – Course organized by Swiss National Supercomputing Centre CSCS, Lugano, Switzerland. Dgemm Performance Optimization Gilles Fourestey, CSCS Threading Models and OpenMP … Read More
The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre CSCS in Lugano, Switzerland, organized on December 10-12, 2012 the course “Getting the best out of multi-core”. Modern multi-core x86 processors have 100 times more … Read More
EPFL scientists have combined two materials with advantageous electronic properties – graphene and molybdenite – into a flash memory prototype that is very promising in terms of performance, size, flexibility … Read More
John Feo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory – Programming the Cray XMT In depth view of the XMT programming from people that use it for their research. John Feo, Pacific Northwest … Read More
James Maltby, Cray – Cray XMT/uRiKA overview An overview of the XMT machine, now rechristened uRiKA, and the strategies it implements to effectively solve problems with irregular structure like graph … Read More
In May 2012 CSCS organized a course about “Using the next-generation Cray XMT (uRiKA) for Large Scale Data Analytics”. The next-generation Cray XMT (uRiKA) is a massively multithreaded, high performance … 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
