Video: Assembling of the Cray XC30 “Piz Daint” at CSCS
The Cray XC30 has arrived at CSCS on December 5th, 2012. After just a few days of assembly it has found its place in the new CSCS machine room, complementing the already … Read More
Call for Registration: First International Conference on ICT for Sustainability ICT4S in Zurich
ICT4S is a joint effort of academia, industry, national and international organizations to take stock of the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in energy efficiency and sustainable development. … Read More
NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) and NCAR Yellowstone supercomputer
Rich Loft, Director of Technology and Development at the Computing Lab of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Aaron Andersen (Deputy Director for Operations at NCAR) have been … Read More
Video: HPC Advisory Council Swiss Workshop Announcement
Hussein Harake (CSCS), Brian Sparks (HPC Advisory Council) and Gilad Shainer (Chairman of the HPC Advisory Council) invite you to participate in the HPC Advisory Council Swiss Workshop to be … Read More
Submissions for ISC Research Papers, Tutorials Now Being Accepted
The 2013 International Supercomputing Conference Research Paper and Tutorials Committees are now accepting abstracts and tutorial proposals for ISC’13 in Europe. The ISC’13 Call for Papers is supported by the … Read More
Video: Rich Brueckner of insideHPC visits the hpc-ch booth at SC12
As is tradition, Rich Brueckner of insideHPC visited the Swiss hpc-ch booth at the SC12 conference in Salt Lake City. Rich describes some of the hot topics at SC12, including … Read More
CSCS supercomputers help to understand why pacemakers sometimes don’t help
In certain heart diseases, the left ventricle does not contract simultaneously. Usually, a pacemaker can come to the rescue here. Why this does not help in thirty per cent of … Read More
Video: Direct Numerical Simulation of Flow in Engine-Like Geometries
Jean Favre (CSCS) presents at SC12 a video created together with Martin Schmitt and Christos E. Frouzakis ETH Zurich of direct numerical simulation of flow in engine-like geometries. Internal combustion … Read More
Andreas Born presents his poster on “Computational and storage requirements for earth system modeling”
Andreas Born from the Climate and Environmental Physics group at University of Bern presented at CSCS User Day a poster portraying the work that the entire group has been doing … Read More
Bellatrix Day @EPFL: HPC benefits and critical aspects
Dear HPC enthusiasts, Bellatrix is the new EPFL computing cluster managed by DIT. To mark the imminent production start of this new machine, a joint Dell-Intel-EPFL event will take place … Read More
David Daverio presents his poster “Cosmic strings simulation”
During CSCS User Day, PhD student David Daverio in the Geneva cosmology group of Martin Kunz at University of Geneva presented his work on “Cosmic strings simulation”. David also gave … Read More
Green500 list: Two Swiss HPC systems in the top 10
The latest Green500 list (https://www.top500.org/green500/) has been released today at the SC12 supercomputing conference in Salt Lake City, USA. The purpose of the Green500 is to provide a ranking of … Read More