On January 9th 2013 CSCS participated in the RSI RETE UNO radio program “Millevoci” to discuss the future of internet. Nicola Colotti invited CSCS associate director Michele De Lorenzi and two … Read More
Yesterday the European Commission has confirmed the news already published by Nature last Friday, that the Human Brain and the Graphene projects are the two European projects awarded with 1 … Read More
As reported yesterday by “Nature” », the Human Brain Project (HBP) led by neuroscientist Henry Markram at EPF Lausanne will be awarded a total of EUR one billion to support research … Read More
Topological defects in space may have developed fractions of a second after the Big Bang. Simulations of these wormlike entities and a comparison of the simulations with cosmic background radiation … Read More
The HPC Advisory Council, a leading organization for high-performance computing research, outreach and education, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, will host the 4th HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2013 … Read More
by Simone Ulmer, CSCS The Computational Science and Engineering Laboratory has a gallery (www.cse-lab.ethz.ch) of fascinating visualisations. Most of them have been made by you. Do you consider visualisation to … Read More
The Computational Science & Engineering Laboratory (CSE Lab) of ETH Zurich lead by Professor Petros Koumoutsakos wins the Milton Van Dyke Award presented at the 65th Annual Conference of the … Read More
Dr. Darren Reed, a post doc at University of Zurich presents at CSCS User Day his work on “Clues about the dark matter particle from the large-scale cosmic web of … Read More
At CSCS User Day, Maria-Grazia Giuffreda is briefly interviewing Stephan Mohr, a PhD student in the group of Professor Stefan Goedecker at University of Basel, about his project “BigDFT” and … Read More
CSCS has recently upgraded its Cray XK6 platform to Cray XK7 by introducing NVIDIA K20x devices together with CUDA 5, and a new Cray programming environment that includes OpenACC compilers. The goal … Read More
The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre CSCS in Lugano, Switzerland, hosted the PRACE Summer School on Code Optimisation for Multi-Core and Intel MIC Architectures on 21-23 June 2012. This third post is dedicated … Read More
In October CSCS upgraded the accelerators of the “Tödi” system from NVIDIA Fermi X2090 (Cray XK6) to Kepler K20X (Cray XK7). Have a look at how Cray staff replaced the … Read More
