Piz Daint #1 in Europe
Piz Daint is No.6 on the TOP500 and the most energy efficient system in the TOP10 “The new entry in the TOP10 is at No. 6 –Piz Daint, a Cray … Read More
Piz Daint, the first supercomputer with sustained petaflops-scale performance in Switzerland
The Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) announces that the upgraded Cray XC30 supercomputer “Piz Daint” has exceeded petaflops sustained performance in scientific production runs. At the same time “Piz Daint” … 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
Video: Assembling of NEC Cluster “Mönch” at CSCS
CSCS is operating for professors of ETH Zurich a NEC Cluster called “Mönch”. Mönch is named after a mountain in the Bernese Alps, elevation 4107m. The cluster is a 9 … Read More
TV broadcast: Digital native visiting CSCS
More than 50 students from schools in Ticino visited CSCS to learn about professions related to computer science. The visit was organized together between the office of occupational orientation of … Read More
NVIDIA announces Co-Design Lab for Hybrid Multicore Computing at ETH Zurich
In a blog post NVIDIA announced the creation of the NVIDIA Co-Design Lab for Hybrid Multicore Computing at ETH Zurich. In the post, Peter Messmer, the director of the Co-Design … Read More
Scientific Visualization: In-Silico Modeling for Fracture Fixation in Osteoporotic Bone
The scientific visualization In-Silico Modeling for Fracture Fixation in Osteoporotic Bone will be presented at the SC13 Scientific Visualization Showcase Exhibit in Denver. Authors of the visualization are Juri Steiner … Read More
Spazio ai supercalcolatori: Swiss radio reports about astrophysics and HPC
Laboratori virtuali per far luce sui segreti del cosmo Pianeti, stelle, galassie e l’Universo intero… come nascono ed evolvono quella miriade di oggetti che popolano l’Universo? Dalla formazione dei sistemi … Read More
New insight into the Earth’s deep interior with Cray XE6 Monte Rosa
For 300 years we have known that the Earth’s magnetic field moves gradually westward. Computer simulations on the CSCS super-computer “Monte Rosa” by researchers at ETH Zurich and the University … Read More
COSMO goes hybrid: Interview with Oliver Fuhrer of MeteoSwiss
“This decision is a huge success for the HP2C projects” The COSMO model is used by the German Meteorological Service, MeteoSwiss and other institutions as a basis for their daily … Read More
hpc-ch Forum on Hardware Life-Cycle and User Policies for HPC systems
The hpc-ch community meets twice a year to discuss different topics related to the management and operations of HPC systems. The second meeting of 2013 will be hosted together by … Read More
Cadmos Day 2013
CADMOS, the Center for Advanced Modeling Science, will soon celebrate its fourth birthday. To present the research in the recent years, it is pleased to invite you to the 3rd … Read More