CSCS is pleased to announce the course Monte Rosa Upgrade: Introduction Course – Interlagos/Gemini” on November 7-9, 2011 at CSCS Manno. The introduction course will provide both existing and new … Read More
The CSCS User Day brought together around 60 users in Lucerne on 23 September. Exciting scientific lectures, lively two-minute personal poster presentations by scientists and discussions were the order of … Read More
The molecular scientist Jürg Hutter, Professor at the University of Zurich, began developing CP2K about ten years ago in collaboration with the research group led by Michele Parrinello, Professor of … Read More
Engineers of Cray are powering up for the first time worldwide a Cray XK6 delivered to a customer. CSCS was the first supercomputing centre signing a contract with Cray for … Read More
The American ambassador Donald Beyer was given a glimpse into the computer infrastructure and day-to-day work at CSCS. A technology and science enthusiast, the diplomat was suitably impressed. American Ambassador … Read More
The CSCS User Day brought together around 60 users in Lucerne on 23 September. Exciting scientific lectures, lively two-minute personal poster presentations by scientists and discussions were the order of … Read More
It is getting warmer in Switzerland and dryer in summer, and climate change will also affect the frequency and character of extreme events. Climate scientists of C2SM Competence Centre (Center … Read More
CSCS evaluated two PCIe attached SSD devices manufactured by Texas Memory Systems in terms of I/O bandwidth and IOPs. One of them is the recently launched “RamSan-70 Gorilla” card designed … Read More
The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) reported today how the group of professor Michele Parrinello demonstrated how diamonds emerge from graphite by using the Monte Rosa Cray XT5 supercomputer. For … Read More
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
