Maria Grazia Giuffreda presented at the CSCS User Meeting 2013 in Lucerne the CHRONOS Call for Proposals. CHRONOS is an annual call for proposals issued by CSCS for high-impact, challenging … Read More
CSCS announces a 3-day training course on GPU programming: Programming for GPUs: Introduction to OpenACC 2.0 & CUDA 5.5 – December 4-6, 2013 Experts from Cray and NVIDIA, together with CSCS … Read More
Researchers from ETH Zurich have successfully demonstrated, for the first time in vivo, how bone tissue responds to local mechanical stimuli that control bone formation. The study reveals how important … Read More
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
Martedi’ 10 settembre 2013, 20.30-22.00 Conferenza pubblica – Stelle, galassie e bytes: supercalcolatori come laboratori virtuali per l’astrofisica Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte Verità – Ascona Gli astronomi utilizzano i più … Read More
The Gordon Bell Prize is awarded each November at the annual Supercomputing conference (SC). It recognizes outstanding and innovative achievements in applying high-performance computing to the sciences, to engineering, and to large … Read More
The Swiss French TV broadcasted in the main news a reportage about the an IBM BlueGene/Q supercomputer being installed at CSCS for EPFL BlueBrain project. Un surper-ordinateur permettant de simuler … Read More
We would like to invite you to attend a talk by Prof. Childs: Hybrid Parallelism for Visualization and Analysis September 10, 11am CSCS, Via Trevano 131, Lugano, Switzerland Prof. Childs … Read More
The following two conferences will take place in September in Heidelberg, Germany: ISC Cloud’13 – HPC and Manufacturing Meet Cloud September 23 – 24, 2013, Heidelberg, Germany On September 23 … Read More
ISC13 dedicated a special session to probe the thinking behind Europe’s Human Brain Project. We asked Prof. Felix Schürmann of EPFL to tell us about the usage of HPC resources … Read More
The Grid Computing Competence Center of the University of Zurich is pleased to announce release 1.0.0 of Elasticluster. Elasticluster is a Python tool to automate the creation, configuration and management … Read More
Switzerland has a very long story related to computing: Z4, one of the first computers, has been installed at ETH Zurich by Konrad Zuse in 1950. In the book “Konrad … Read More
