hpc-ch is looking for Swiss Teams to participate to ISC12 Student Cluster Competition Are student at a Swiss university? Have you strong interest in HPC / Supercomputing? Do you want … Read More
More than 30 members of the hpc-ch will participate to the next forum on «the Use of GPU and Accelerators for HPC» Thursday 27th October 2011 hosted by University of … 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
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
Earlier this year, CSCS hosted a tutorial called “Molecular Dynamics Codes on GPGPUs” — it provided an overview of classical molecular dynamics software, showed some benchmarking results, and gave a … Read More
CSCS is happy to announce that the next-generation Cray XMT has been delivered and assembled. During the acceptance tests CSCS were able to reproduce the numbers submitted to the Graph500 … Read More
CSCS evaluated two different PCIe attached SSD devices with various methods for analyzing bandwidth and IOPs. The performance over SATA drives is huge as expected, by a factor of 20 … Read More
Since October 2009 CSCS uses xCAT in some production environments. xCAT is an open source HPC cluster management. It is agile, extendable, and based on years of system administration best … Read More
CSCS will install by the end of June, 2011 a new Cray XMT. James Maltby of Cray presents the new supercomputer and its new possible applications for science and industry. … Read More
We interviewed Melanie Riedener of Hewlett Pakard (Switzerland) when she was visiting our hpc-ch booth at ISC11 in Hamburg. We asked her to tell us what she is doing at … Read More
Whether data is processed or deleted in computers, both consume energy. The energy is released as heat. A study has now shown that the heat forming can be avoided, and, … Read More
CSCS announced beginning of April the successful deployment of the SLURM Resource Manager on Rosa (Cray XT5). Slurm was developed by Lawrence Livermore and has been ported to the Cray … Read More
