Cray’s Gemini Interconnect Wins HPCwire Editors’ Choice Award
Last August we presented Palu, the newest Cray XE6 installed at CSCS. Palu was part of a joint collaboration between Cray and CSCS, to enable CSCS and its user community … Read More
Conference Report: 14th ECMWF Workshop on the Use of High Performance Computing in Meteorology
The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF, Reading, UK) organized from November 1 to 5, 2010 the 14th Workshop on the Use of High Performance Computing (HPC) in Meteorology. … Read More
Videos of Forum on Parallel File Systems for HPC now Online
The recordings of the last hpc-ch community forum on Parallel file systems for HPC are now online. More than 40 colleagues from all over Switzerland attended the forum. The videos … Read More
Swiss Contribution to SC10
A look to the schedule of the Supercomputing Conference (SC10) in New Orleans (November 13-19, 2010) shows that Switzerland is being represented in panels, doctoral research showcases and as a … Read More
Follow hpc-ch on Twitter: hpcch
Now hpc-ch is also posting content and news on twitter as hpcch. On twitter we will post links to the articles published on the blog and in addition shorter that … Read More
Conference Report: Gordon Conference “Grand Challenges in Data-Intensive Discovery”
The Grand Challenges in Data-Intensive Discovery conference was be held at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) October 26 – 28, 2010. “Gordon” is a new machine funded by NSF … Read More
EMPA Joins the hpc-ch Community
We are very happy to announce that Empa joined the hpc-ch community as a regular member. Empa is an interdisciplinary research and services institution for material sciences and technology development … Read More
HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2011
The HPC Advisory Council and the Swiss Supercomputing Centre will host the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2011 in the Lugano Convention Centre, Lugano, Switzerland, from March 21-23, 2011. The … Read More
CSCS Call for Proposal 2011
Since May 2010 Production Project Proposals for CSCS can be submitted at any time. The deadline for the next allocation period (April 1st, 2011) is December 1st, 2010. There are … Read More
Groundbreaking method for computer simulation: Car-Parrinello method turns 25
ETH Life just published an article on the Car-Parrinello method for performing ab-initio quantum mechanical molecular dynamics (MD). Prof. Parrinello, one of the two scientists that created the methods holds … Read More
Laying the Foundation Stone for CSCS Building in Lugano
Monday, October 18 has been an important day for the implementation of the Swiss National HPC Initiative (HPCN). In Lugano Cornaredo there was the ceremony for the laying of the … Read More
Agenda of Next Community Forum on Parallel File Systems for HPC
Next October 28, the members of the hpc-ch community will meet at ETH Zurich to discuss about parallel file systems for HPC. 35 participants registered to this meeting and will … Read More