The Monte Rosa supercomputer has been supporting users at CSCS in their scientific research since 2009. There have been hundreds of publications based on its computing power. Now this supercomputer is being removed from the network. Monte Rosa is being replaced by a high-performance platform that marks the start of a new era for CSCS […]
With a short but felt ceremony CSCS powered down the Monte Rosa supercomputer. The command to switch-off Monte Rosa for the very last time was given by Fabio Verzelloni, one of its system administrators. During the well-attended ceremony both by CSCS and Cray staff Michele De Lorenzi interviewed Mario Mattia from Cray, Thomas Schulthess Director […]
Seattle, WA and Manno, Switzerland – May 17, 2011 – Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. announced that it has signed a contract with the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) to upgrade its current Cray XT5 system, nicknamed “Monte Rosa” to a Cray XE6 supercomputer. The Monte Rosa system at CSCS will be upgraded with Cray’s […]
Datacenter Knowledge is kindly reporting about the movie with the assembling of the Cray XT 5 supercomputer “Monte Rosa” at CSCS. Even if the video is almost two years old (May 2009), it is still worth to have a look. Read the article on Datacenter Knowledge »
In Summer 2010 CSCS organized a two days introduction course to Rosa and the Cray environment. The videos of the different presentations are now available online on the multimedia portal of CSCS and ETH Zurich. You are invited to have a look to the videos if you want an introduction to parallel computing in general […]
