The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) supports Swiss scientist in all matters concerning supercomputing and scientific computing. Until October 14th 2011 new requests for compute time for large projects can … Read More
Lucio Mayer and his team simulated for the first time worldwide the birth of the Milky Way. The results stimulated many discussions in online forums. Lucio answers our questions. Lucio, … Read More
This week AMD announced the shipment of the first processors based on its new x86 “Bulldozer” architecture to CSCS and other supercomputer centers. The processors will be used to upgrade … Read More
Christoph Grab is professor for experimental physics at ETH Zurich and coordinates the computing infrastructure for the Swiss particle physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment at CERN. In … Read More
CSCS has been interview by Swiss Italian radio about the results of the ERIS simulation of Lucio Mayer. [audio:http://user.cscs.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/customers/cscs/Multimedia/Cronache_Svizzera_Italiana_ERIS.mp3|titles=Cronache della Svizzera Italiana ERIS]
In 2011, the Board of Trustees of the Marcel-Benoist-Foundation under the chairmanship of Federal Councillor Didier Burkhalter will award the Marcel-Benoist-Prize to Michele Parrinello. The award is in recognition of … Read More
CSCS organised a 2 and half-day intensive course focused on multi-threaded programming, tuning and optimization and multi-threaded libraries on massively parallel processing (MPP) systems that are composed of multi-core processors. … Read More
hpc-ch interviewed Lucio Mayer, Professor at the Unversity of Zurich about simulating the birth of a galaxy. For this work his research group used the HPC resources at the Swiss … Read More
First glimpse into birth of the Milky Way For almost 20 years astrophysicists have been trying to recreate the formation of spiral galaxies such as our Milky Way realistically. Now … Read More
Zetta numerical simulation for science and technology zetta.epfl.ch This brand new magazine will be first released February 2012 and will be issued once a year. We accept articles describing research … Read More
The Swiss National Grid Initiative (SwiNG), the Karlsruhe Institute of Technonolgy (KIT) and the Helmholtz Alliance ‘Physics at the Terascale’ organize the GridKa School 2011. GridKa School offers a broad … Read More
hpc-ch participated to ISC11 in Hamburg with an own booth. If you were not able to participate to the conference you can now see some photos of the booth and … Read More
