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 scientists, and get the latest news about HPC and science in Switzerland, together with some Swiss coffee and chocolate. Among the novelties, every hour you […]
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 National Supercomputing Centre is installing turbines at its Parco Ciani pumping station to produce electricity from the water returned to Lake Lugano after cooling its […]
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 is being removed from the network. Monte Rosa is being replaced by a high-performance platform that marks the start of a new era for 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 of its system administrators. During the well-attended ceremony both by CSCS and Cray staff Michele De Lorenzi interviewed Mario Mattia from Cray, Thomas Schulthess Director […]
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 Europe. Up to ten top applicants from across Europe will be selected to participate. Participants will spend two months working on projects related to PRACE […]
