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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
Funding for new CSCS building confirmed
December 21st, 2009
On December 16th Dr. Fritz Schiesser, President of ETH Board, confirmed that the Swiss federal Parliament had passed the funding for the new CSCS building. Read more...
HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2010
December 17th, 2009
CSCS co-organizes the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2010. The workshop is dedicated to InfiniBand training – InfiniBand architecture, hands-on training, advanced features, fabric management, and more...
CSCS Joins Cray's Exascale Research Initiative
December 2nd, 2009
CSCS is one of the two initial partners of Cray in its European Exascale Research Initiative targeted at exploring new ideas and technologies for overcoming the challenges of delivering a supercomputing system capable of sustained exaflop (one quintillion mathematical calculations per second) application performance. Read more...
Hybrid Multicore Consortium
November 26th, 2009
CSCS is one of the organizing members of the new Hybrid Multicore Consortium together with Oak Ridge National Labs, Berkeley National Labs, Los Alamos National Labs and Georgia Tech University. The consortium will explore hybrid multicore architectures as a significant, yet unrealized promise for delivering high-end production computing capabilities for the most demanding science applications.
The Swiss HPC Service Provider Community
November 25th, 2009
CSCS is one of the promoter of hpc-ch, the Swiss Service Provider Community. The goal of hpc-ch is to support and foster the knowledge exchange between providers of HPC systems at Swiss universities. 11 organizations are already member of hpc-ch and 3 joined as guest.