Decommission of IBM P5 «Blanc» at CSCS
On January 8th, 2010 the compute nodes of «Blanc» an IBM P5 have been switched off and on January 31st, 2010 the login nodes have also be switched off . … Read More
Decommission of «Palu» at CSCS
On January 27th, 2010 the Cray XT3 has reached the end of its life here at CSCS, for the last time the system has been shut down and disassembled. This … Read More
Move of Dôle at CSCS to a New Location
Today the HPC system called “Dôle” has been moved to a new location inside CSCS. Dôle is being used by MeteoSwiss as failover for Buin, the main production system for … Read More
Case Study of University of Zurich and Intel on High-Performance Computing
University of Zurich and Intel commonly announced a case study for the use of Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 and 5400 series for Schrödiger, the new Sun HPC system of the … Read More
HPC @ University of Bern: ubelix – Uni BErn LInuX cluster
See also the original slides of Andres Aeschlimann as pdf » Purpose This Grid HPC infrastructure is primarily designed to support the researchers at the Campus. They should use their … Read More
Handbook of Research on Computational Science and Engineering: Call for Proposals
We are pleased to invite you to submit your proposals for the contribution of chapters to the “Handbook of Research on Computational Science and Engineering: Theory and Practice”. CSE is … Read More
HP2C: First 8 Projects Accepted
The first 8 projects to be supported by HP2C have been accepted. A decision about 4 additional projects is expected in the next weeks. In December 2009, the steering committee … Read More
New computing systems at CSCS for MeteoSwiss
CSCS is providing HPC services to MeteoSwiss for the National daily weather forecast. Since 2007 the service has been provided by Buin (a Cray XT4) as main production system and … Read More
HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2010
As announced in a previous posting, the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2010 is going to take place in Lugano, 15-17 March, 2010. The 3-day conference is free for attendees … Read More
Funding for new CSCS building confirmed
On December 16th Dr. Fritz Schiesser, President of ETH Board, confirmed that the Swiss federal Parliament had passed the funding for the new CSCS building. This great news follows immediately … Read More
Call for Presentations & Participation: Infiniband Workshop – Lugano 2010
We are glad to announce the call for participation for an Infiniband workshop jointly organized by Mellanox and CSCS in Lugano (March 15-17 2010). The workshop will be dedicated to … Read More
ETH Zurich Annouces Creation of Hybrid Multicore Consortium
On November 18, ETH Zurich announced together with Oak Ridge National Labs, Berkeley National Labs, Los Alamos National Labs and Georgia Tech University the creation of the new Hybrid Multicore … Read More