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
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