At the San Diego Supercomputing Centre (SDSC) booth at SC11 we met Rick Wagner who presented simulations of astrophysics that were done on Jaguar and Kraken at Oak Ridge National … Read More
The 2012 International Supercomputing Conference Research Paper and Tutorial Committees are now accepting full papers and tutorial proposals for ISC’12 in Europe. The ISC’12 Call for Papers is supported by … Read More
In the last number of “Flash Informatique” at EPFL you can read an article by Vittoria Rezzonico about free software for HPC. Since the Beowulf revolution, High Performance Computing (HPC) … Read More
PRACE opened the PRACE 4th regular call for Tier-0 resources and DECI-8 (Distributed European Computing Initiative) call for Tier-1 resources on 2nd of November, 2011. The call will close on … Read More
SUNNYVALE, CA. and LUGANO, SWITZERLAND – Dec. 12, 2011 – The HPC Advisory Council, a leading organization for high-performance computing research, outreach and education, and CSCS, the Swiss National Supercomputing … Read More
Vittoria Rezzonico is the new Computational Sciences and Engineering Coordinator at EPFL. In this function Vittoria has become the reference person at EPFL for HPC issues and she is coordinating … Read More
George Lake is professor for astrophysics at the University of Zurich (UZH). At his visit to the hpc-ch booth at SC11 we interviewed him about his research activities. George told … Read More
We were very happy to again welcome Rich Brueckner of insideHPC at the Swiss hpc-ch booth at SC11 after his recent visit at ISC11. We had the discussion shortly before … Read More
John Feo is the director of the Center for Adaptive Supercomputer Software (CASS) at the Pacific Northwest Laboratory. John and his team are using a Cray XMT 1 supercomputer since … Read More
Robert (Bob) Techentin is Principal Software Engineer in the Special Purpose Processor Development Group at Mayo Foundation (Rochester, Minnesota). Robert is one of the first users of the new Cray … Read More
Ulrich Schättler is working for Germany’s National Meteorological Service, the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD). He started at DWD as software engineer. Years ago he has been asked to parallelize the weather … Read More
At SC11 David Cremese (IBM Switzerland & Austria) visited the hpc-ch booth. As deep computing sales manager David is also responsible for the Swiss universities and research centers represented at … Read More
