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 […]
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 second network connection. Now, up to five times as much data can be transmitted in the same length of time, significantly speeding up the transfer […]
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 Internet generieren Daten, die von einem Rechenzentrum verarbeitet werden müssen. Hier hat die Schweiz die Nase vorn: Sie entwickelt sich immer mehr zu einem Zentrum […]
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 Physics and director at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS), “The industry at large is in a state of confusion, because exascale as a goal […]
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 system with NVIDIA GPUs, and preliminary results show it is performing at up to seven times more energy-efficiency than current systems. CSCS aims to reduce […]
