Follow the HPC Advisory Council on twitter
One of our members is reporting live from the HPC Advisory Council on twitter: Stay tuned on @arzela (see also the right column of this page). If you also would … Read More
HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop Started Today
The HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2010 started today in Lugano. With more than 110 registered persons this is the largest conference ever dedicated to HPC technologies in Swutzerland. Main … Read More
Getting Space for the New CSCS Building in Lugano
Work has begun in Cornaredo to host the supercomputers of Swiss National Computing Center (CSCS), which in 2012 will move from Manno. The bulldozers are demolishing the old garage of … Read More
CSCS evaluated the ease of use of the PGAS programming model for PRACE
The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe’s work package for future petaflop computer technologies beyond 2010 recently assessed 12 prototypes for next-generation computer architectures. The evaluation included full systems, system … Read More
Agreement between ETH Zurich and USI on Computational Sciences
On 22 February, Zurich and Ticino newspapers (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zürcher Landzeitung, La Regione Ticino, Giornale del Popolo) reported that ETH Zurich has concluded an agreement with the Università della … Read More
Last Days to Register to HPC Council Switzerland Workshop
With more than 100 registered attendees, the HPC Council Switzerland Workshop (Lugano, March 15-17) is having a great success. Download the latest agenda with the list gold ans silver sponsors: … Read More
Green HPC ?
The importance of power consumption and green IT are increasing also for HPC. From Bernard Aebischer of the Centre for Energy Policy & Economics at ETH Zurich (CEPE) I received … Read More
HP2C Presented at the Hybrid Multicore Consortium
Prof. Thomas Schulthess presented the HP2C initiative at the First Workshop of the Hybrid Multicore Consortium in San Francisco (January, January 20, 2010). Have a look to the different presentations … Read More
University of Lausanne Joins HPC-CH Community
We are happy to announce that University of Lausanne is joining the hpc-ch community as a guest. The university will be represented in the community by Hamid Hussain-Khan of the … Read More
Installation of the Phoenix Upgrade for CHIPP
In January 2010 started at CSCS the upgrade of the cluster “Phoenix” that is being used as tier 2 by the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics (CHIPP) in the LHC … Read More
A New Home for Palu: The ENTER Museum for Computer
In a previous blog entry we reported about the Cray XT3, Palu, being decommissioned at CSCS. In the meantime we were able to give a new home to the three … Read More
Call for Papers: The 2010 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference
The following call for papers for the 2010 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference in Caen, Normandy could be of interest for the members of our community. Call for Participation … Read More