hpc-ch on our way to SC12
hpc-ch is getting ready for SC12. The first thing to leave for Salt Lake City is our swiss flag cube that we’ll use as a table at the booth. Let’s … Read More
Martin Schmitt presents his poster on “Direct numerical simulation of flow in engine-like geometries”
At CSCS User Day 2012, PhD student Martin Schmitt from the group of Dr. Christos Frousakis at ETH Zurich presents his poster on “Direct numerical simulation of flow in engine-like … Read More
Call for participation: SDCD 2012: Supporting Science with Cloud Computing in Bern
The Swiss Distributed Computing Day is an annual meeting of users and providers of distributed computing technologies. This year’s theme is “Supporting Science with Cloud Computing” and it will be … Read More
Agenda hpc-ch Forum on “Handling huge amounts of data for HPC”, Oct. 25th at CSCS
With 46 participants (registration is now closed), the next hpc-ch forum on “Handling huge amounts of data for HPC” will be the largest forum organized by our community. We are … Read More
CSCS User Day 2012: Best poster winner Anna Possner presents her work on cloud-resolving climate simulations
CSCS, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre organized a poster session during the Use Day. In the next days we will publish some videos where the scientists present their posters. We … Read More
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