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Founded in 1991, CSCS, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, develops and promotes technical and scientific services for the Swiss research community in the fields of high-performance computing. CSCS enables world-class scientific research by pioneering, operating and supporting leading-edge supercomputing technologies. The centre collaborates with domestic and foreign researchers, and carries out its own research in scientific computing. Located at Manno near Lugano, in the southern, Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, CSCS is an autonomous unit of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich).
Latest News
First Cray XE6 Supercomputer installed at CSCS
July 28, 2010
CSCS, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, is pleased to announce the successful installation of an early-release version of the new Cray XE6 supercomputing architecture manufactured by Cray Inc.
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HP2C New Call for Proposals
July 21, 2010
The High Performance and High Productivity Computing Platform (HP2C) invites the submission of proposals focused on applications of high performance computing to risk analysis for global challenges.
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39th SPEEDUP Workshop on High-Performance Computing
July 20, 2010
The SPEEDUP Society has the pleasure to announce the 39th Workshop on High-Performance Computing on September 6 -7 2010 at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
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Master of Informatics with Major in Computational Science at USI
July 5, 2010
Starting on September 2010 USI offers a Master of Informatics with Major in Computational Science.
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