Information exchange within the hpc-ch community takes place during the Forums, which are hosted by different member institutions. Two Forums are organized each year.
Upcoming Events
- User Workflows and Support
October 29, 2026 hosted by Agroscope - Confidential and Security Data
May 13, 2027 hosted by University of Bern - October 2027, hosted by University of Geneva
Past Events
- Improving Access to HPC
May 7, 2026 hosted by EPFL
including community dinner on May 6, 2026 - Financial Aspects of HPC
October 10, 2025 hosted by ZHAW
including community dinner on October 9, 2025 - HPC Workflows and Batch Systems
May 15, 2025 hosted by ETH Zurich
including community dinner on May 14, 2025 - AI/ML Services for Science
October 31, 2024 hosted by CSCS
including community dinner on Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - Business Continuity/Crises Management & Energy savings and efficiency
May 23, 2024, hosted by SWITCH - HPC and Data as a service
October 5, 2023, hosted by UZH - HPC Security
May 4, 2023, hosted by University of Basel
including community dinner on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 - User Centric-View on HPC
October 6, 2022 hosted by 2030 Health Genome Center
including community dinner on Wednesday, October 5, 2022 - HPC Configuration Management
May 19, 2022, hosted by Empa - HPC Security
October 7, 2021, hosted by CHUV - Virtualization
May 20, 2021, hosted by University of Lausanne - Access Abstraction to HPC Resources
October 22, 2020, hosted by Empa - Logging and Monitoring
October 3, 2019, hosted by WSL
including community dinner on Wednesday, October 2, 2019 - Cloud and Containers
May 16, 2019, hosted by University of Basel - Storage Technologies and Data Management
October 4, 2018, hosted by CSCS
including visit of the Centre and community dinner on Wednesday, October 3, 2018 - Management and Security of Sensitive HPC Data
May 17, 2018, hosted by Vital-IT/UNIL - Containers for HPC
October 26, 2017, hosted by Paul Scherrer Institut
including visit of SwissFEL and community dinner on Wednesday, October 25, 2017 - Data Science & Machine Learning
May 18, 2017, hosted by T-Systems Switzerland - Technologies for HPC
October 20, 2016, hosted by EPFL - Intra- and Inter-Site Networking for HPC
May 19, 2016, hosted by University of Zurich - Storage technologies for HPC
October 22, 2015, hosted by University of Geneva and University of Fribourg - Software management for HPC
June 11, 2015, University of Basel - Cloud computing and virtualisation for HPC
June 18th 2014, hosted by ETH Zurich and University of Zurich - Monitoring and reporting in HPC
October 23th 2014, hosted by University of Bern - Hardware Life-Cycle and User Policies for HPC systems
October 23th 2013 hosted by EPFL, Vital-IT and University of Lausanne - HPC and Industries (Challenges, Requirements, State of the Art, Best Practices)
May 23th 2013, hosted by Novartis in Basel - Handling huge amount of data for HPC
October 2012, hosted by CSCS & Università della Svizzera italiana - Infrastructure for HPC
May 2012, hosted by EMPA in Dübendorf - Use of GPU and Accelerators for HPC
October 2011, hosted by University of Basel - Scheduler and Queuing System
May 2011, hosted by Paul Scherrer Institut - Operating Systems for HPC and Installation Methods
October 2010, hosted by EPF Lausanne - Parallel File Systems for HPC
May 2010, hosted by ETH Zurich - Getting together
October 2009, hosted by University of Zurich