Cartoon: How does a simulation scientist work? A typical day
A few weeks ago CSCS had an open day. One of our purposes was to explain to the visitors how scientists use the supercomputers to do their work. With that … Read More
Swiss Italian Radio RSI broadcast “Scintille” reporting about CSCS
The Swiss Italian Radio (RSI) recently broadcast an item on the new CSCS building and the scientific projects running here in their programme “Scintille”. They interviewed Michele De Lorenzi, associate director at … Read More
Tier-0 PRACE Call for Proposals
We would like to make you aware of the following opportunity within the PRACE consortium, with over 1.25 billion CPU Hours of allocatable resource on Tier-0 systems. If you wish … Read More
Video from 41st SPEEDUP Workshop: Thomas Schulthess on “The Swiss HPC strategy towards the Exascale Era”
At the 25 years SPEEDUP anniversary workshop, Thomas Schulthess, director of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre – CSCS, presented the Swiss HPC strategy towards the exascale era. Through several application … Read More
Video from 41st SPEEDUP Workshop: Helmar Burkhart on “A look back at 25 years of Speedup workshops”
Helmar Burkhart presented a review of 25 years of SPEEDUP at the 41st SPEEDUP Workshop. He discussed the beginning of supercomputing in Switzerland with the installation of a first Cray 1S … Read More
Video from 41st SPEEDUP Workshop: Laurent Villard on “Gyrokinetic simulations of turbulence in magnetic fusion plasmas”
At the 41st SPEEDUP Workshop, Laurent Villard presented “Gyrokinetic simulations of turbulence in magnetic fusion plasmas”. Laurent Villard is Adjunct Professor at EPF Lausanne. His research interests include the fast … Read More
Video from 41st SPEEDUP Workshop: David Keyes on “The Missing Mathematics of Extreme Scale Simulation”
David Keyes is dean at the Mathematical and Computer Sciences and Engineering Division of KAUST. He works at the algorithmic interface between parallel computing and the numerical analysis of partial … Read More
Video from 41st SPEEDUP Workshop: Joost VandeVondele on “Sparse matrix matrix multiplication for linear scaling DFT”
At the 41st SPEEDUP Workshop, Joost van de Vondele gave a presentation on “Sparse matrix matrix multiplication for linear scaling DFT”. Joost is an Assistant Professor of Nanoscale Simulation at … Read More
On Swiss Italian Radio today: La complessa (im)precisione della meteorologia globale
Today at 11:10, RSI, the Swiss Italian Radio station will dedicate a broadcast to meteorology and the COSMO model used by MeteoSwiss and other national agencies. The participants are Marco … Read More
Video from 41st SPEEDUP Workshop: Jack Dongarra on the Future of High Performance Computing
One of the main activities of the SPEEDUP Society is the organization of an annual workshop on high performance computing and related topics for the Swiss scientific community. Each year … Read More
Blog of a HPC system administrator visiting NERSC
Nicola Bianchi, a HPC system administrator at CSCS, had an internship at NERSC this summer. His goal was to exchange ideas and experiences with our colleagues in the Bay area … Read More
Call for presentations and participants: hpc-ch Forum on Handling huge amount of data for HPC
Dear members and guests of the hpc-ch community, We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming hpc-ch forum on Handling huge amount of data for HPC to be held … Read More