Short presentation at booth #396 @SC15 – Meet Swiss HPC
The Swiss HPC community hpc-ch and CSCS invite you to visit the “Swiss House of HPC” at SC15 in Austing at booth 396, where you can meet Swiss HPC specialists and … Read More
Tag: Technology
Video of Monte Rosa Cray XE6 power-down at 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 … Read More
The long road to exascale computing: Thomas Schulthess on SCW
The last edition of Scientific Computing World asked a number of industry experts the question of how and when we might reach exascale computing. For Thomas Schultess, professor of Computational … Read More
New Hybrid Computer Architecture at CSCS Delivers Promising Results
The Swiss National Supercomputing Center’s (CSCS) new Cray XC30 supercomputer from computer manufacturer Cray is making its debut at CSCS in Lugano. Cray and CSCS are collaborating to equip this … Read More
EPFL researchers are shifting the Internet into high gear
A new-generation analog-to-digital converter (ADC) developed by a joint IBM-EPFL team has the potential to greatly increase the speed and volume of data that can be transferred over the Internet. … Read More
UZH, FGCZ & SystemsX.chintroduces software framework VM-MAD – a cloud/cluster software for service-oriented academic environments
The Grid Computing Competence Center (GC3) at the University of Zurich (UZH) together with FGCZ (Functional Genomics Center Zurich), and SystemsX.ch will present at the International Supercomputing Conference 2013 (ISC13) … Read More
Fantastic flash memory combines graphene and molybdenite
EPFL scientists have combined two materials with advantageous electronic properties – graphene and molybdenite – into a flash memory prototype that is very promising in terms of performance, size, flexibility … Read More
Installation of the IBM TS3500 tape library at CSCS
In early 2013 an automated tape library (IBM TS3500) was installed at CSCS increasing the storage capacity up to ~ 27.4 PB petabytes of uncompressed data. The library is composed of 16 … Read More
A New Super-Green Supercomputer at EPFL
Since January 28, researchers from EPFL and the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne have benefitted from a new supercomputer, the BlueGene/Q. This computer is four times more powerful than its … Read More
CSCS participates to radio broadcast about the future of Internet
On January 9th 2013 CSCS participated in the RSI RETE UNO radio program “Millevoci” to discuss the future of internet. Nicola Colotti invited CSCS associate director Michele De Lorenzi and two … Read More
Call for registration – HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2013 – March 13-15
The HPC Advisory Council, a leading organization for high-performance computing research, outreach and education, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, will host the 4th HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2013 … Read More
Slidecast: New HSM over GPFS/TSM at CSCS
Stefano Gorini (CSCS) presented at the HPC Advisory Council in Lugano the storage of CSCS based on a GPFS / HSM solution. The GPFS filesystem at CSCS QFS/SAM-FS to GPFS … Read More