Short presentation at booth #396 @SC15 – Meet Swiss HPC
The Swiss HPC community hpc-ch and CSCS invite you to visit the “Swiss House of HPC” at SC15 in Austing at booth 396, where you can meet Swiss HPC specialists and … Read More
Category: Technology
Producing electricity with cooling water at CSCS
Installation of a microhydro plant at the CSCS pumping station for the production of electrical energy using the cooling water from supercomputers: To further improve its energy efficiency, the Swiss … Read More
Monte Rosa is history – the future is a universal computing platform
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
Video of Monte Rosa Cray XE6 power-down at CSCS
With a short but felt ceremony CSCS powered down the Monte Rosa supercomputer. The command to switch-off Monte Rosa for the very last time was given by Fabio Verzelloni, one … Read More
PRACE Summer of HPC 2015
PRACE will again organize in 2015 its student placement and outreach programme “Summer of HPC“. Summer of HPC is a PRACE programme that offers summer placements at HPC centres across … Read More
CSCS going to 100 gigabit Internet connection
High-end connection for rapid large-volume data transfer The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) has become Switzerland’s first service provider for the scientific community to offer a high-performance, 100 gigabit per … Read More
Swiss TV Broadcast: Reducing energy consumption of data centers
The Swiss TV SRF broadcasted dedicated to the reduction of the energy consumption of data centers. Have a look to the broadcast (in German). Jedes SMS und jede Suche im … Read More
The long road to exascale computing: Thomas Schulthess on SCW
The last edition of Scientific Computing World asked a number of industry experts the question of how and when we might reach exascale computing. For Thomas Schultess, professor of Computational … Read More
New Hybrid Computer Architecture at CSCS Delivers Promising Results
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
EPFL researchers are shifting the Internet into high gear
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
UZH, FGCZ & SystemsX.chintroduces software framework VM-MAD – a cloud/cluster software for service-oriented academic environments
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
Fantastic flash memory combines graphene and molybdenite
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