Whamcloud and CSCS have announced a Lustre support agreement. CSCS has a Lustre-based scratch file system for their flagship supercomputer system, Monte Rosa, which is a 47,872 core Cray XE6. … Read More
The representatives of hpc-ch are ready to welcome you with coffee, chocolate and the latest news about HPC in Switzerland at the ISC12 conference. You can meet us at booth … Read More
On June 3rd, 2012 the RSI LA1 (Radiotelevisione Svizzera Italiana) broadcasted “Il Giardino di Albert” dedicated to the Nanotechnology (“Nanoparticelle e tecnologia informatica”). During the programme, one slot was reserved … Read More
We congratulate Yves Ineichen (Paul Scherrer Institute/IBM Research Zurich), Andreas Adelmann (PSI), Costas Bekas (IBM Ruschlikon), Alessandro Curioni (IBM Ruschlikon) & Peter Arbenz (ETH Zurich) who have won the PRACE Award … Read More
CSCS, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre organized in May 2012 a course on “Using the next-generation Cray XMT (uRiKA) for Large Scale Data Analytics”. Here are now published the slidecasts … Read More
Analysis and prediction of financial risks, such as market and credit risks, is one of the central problems in modern economy. An adequate understanding of the available risk data requires … Read More
Tim Robinson, a staff member of CSCS, was awarded best paper at the recent Cray User Group (CUG) meeting in Stuttgart. The paper, entitled “Software usage on Cray systems across … Read More
The Swiss radio broadcast reported (in German) about CSCS, Supercomputing and the move to the new building in Lugano. DRS3 visited CSCS at the end of April, just after the … Read More
Setting the Scope In this forum we would like to discuss the different aspects related to providing an infrastructure for the HPC systems we are operating. In many institutions the … Read More
Small fish bend themselves into a ‘C’ shape before they flee from predators. Observations have suggested that this shape helps them to abruptly put the greatest distance possible between themselves … Read More
This is a reminder for the Advanced Distributed Memory Parallel Programming: MPI-2.2, MPI-3.0 and PGAS workshop to be held at CSCS in Lugano on 23-25 May, 2012. The goal of … Read More
This is a reminder for the next call of proposals at CSCS. If you wish to be considered for the allocation period starting on 1 October 2012, then you need … Read More
