George Lake is professor for astrophysics at the University of Zurich (UZH). At his visit to the hpc-ch booth at SC11 we interviewed him about his research activities. George told … Read More
We were very happy to again welcome Rich Brueckner of insideHPC at the Swiss hpc-ch booth at SC11 after his recent visit at ISC11. We had the discussion shortly before … Read More
Torsten Hoefler, currently Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, USA, has been appointed as Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Computational Science at ETH Zurich. Torsten Hoefler … Read More
John Feo is the director of the Center for Adaptive Supercomputer Software (CASS) at the Pacific Northwest Laboratory. John and his team are using a Cray XMT 1 supercomputer since … Read More
Robert (Bob) Techentin is Principal Software Engineer in the Special Purpose Processor Development Group at Mayo Foundation (Rochester, Minnesota). Robert is one of the first users of the new Cray … Read More
Ulrich Schättler is working for Germany’s National Meteorological Service, the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD). He started at DWD as software engineer. Years ago he has been asked to parallelize the weather … Read More
At SC11 David Cremese (IBM Switzerland & Austria) visited the hpc-ch booth. As deep computing sales manager David is also responsible for the Swiss universities and research centers represented at … Read More
Nicola Bianchi (CSCS) presents the last supercomputer arrival at CSCS: The Cray XK6 supercomputer which is a trifecta of scalar, network and many-core innovation. It combines Cray’s proven Gemini interconnect, … Read More
Stephen Trofinoff (CSCS) presents how to schedule GRES resources with SLURM. Download the slides of the presentation (PDF) »
CSCS has experience of operating multi-purpose GPU clusters for a diverse project and service portfolio. Vincenzo Annaloro (CSCS) presents details on system installation and operation for two clusters: a production … Read More
While the peak performance and energy efficiency of computing hardware are constantly growing, the development of fast scientific software is experiencing an important paradigm shift. Efficient algorithm implementations face rigid … Read More
MeteoSchweiz invites you to attend its research colloquium FOKO 2011-2: How much high performance computing does meteorology need? 29 November 2011, 10:30 am – 4:30 pm at MeteoSwiss, Krähbühlstrasse 58, … Read More
