Service and Compute Resources

Cray XE6 – Monte Rosa

Named after Monte Rosa in the Swiss-Italian Alps, elevation 4634m
1496 compute nodes each one with 2 16-core AMD Opteron 6272 @ 2.1 GHz Interlagos processors.  47'872 compute cores over 46 Terabytes of memory. Read more ...

Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) also joined CSCS in the upgrade in 2009 co-investing in the CRAY XT5 upgrade 'Monte Rosa'.

Cray XK6 - Tödi

Named after Tödi in the west part of the Glarus Alps, elevation 3614m
176 nodes, each with 16-core AMD Opteron CPU, 32 GB DDR3 memory and one NVIDIA Tesla X2090 GPU with 6 GB of GDDR5 memory . Read more ..

IBM iDataPlex - Castor

Named after the mountain in the Pennine Alps on the border between Valais, Switzerland and the Aosta Valley in Italy, elevation 4228m
Castor, a 16-nodes iDataPlex cluster is available for scalable GPU code development,  tuning and performance optimization.  Each node is composed of two Intel processors  and two NVIDIA M2090 GPU devices. Read more ...

IBM x3850 - Piz Julier

Named after Piz Julier in the Albula Group and Rhaetian Alps, in Graubünden, elevation 3380m
14 nodes: 2x IBM x3850 M2 system (24 cores, 256GB RAM); 12x Transtec Lynx CALLEO High-Performance Server 2840 (24cores, 48GB RAM). Read more ...

DALCO SM Visualization Cluster - Eiger

Named after the mountain in the Bernese Alps, elevation 3970m
15 nodes with dual-socket six-cores AMD Opteron 2427 processor @ 2.2 GHz 24 GB of main system memory per node. 8 nodes with larger main system memory capacity up to 48 GB. Read more ...

Next-generation Cray XMT - Matterhorn (Left) and SGI ALtix UV/1000 - Rothorn (Right)

The former is named after the Swiss-Italian mountain in the Pennine Alps, elevation 4478m
2 TB of globally shared memory and 64 Cray Threadstorm processors which allow to run 8'192 simultaneous hardware threads . Read more ...

The latter after the Brienzer Rothorn in the Swiss Alps, elevation 2351 m
32 Intel 8-core processors @ 2.67 GHz in 16 blades 2 TB of RAM. Read more ...

CRAY XT4 – Piz Buin

Named after Piz Buin in the Silvretta range of eastern Switzerland, elevation 3312m
264 AMD quadcore Opteron @ 2.3 GHz. 2112 GB DDR RAM, 30 TB Disk. This system, installed in 2007, is the main platform for the Swiss weather forecasts. Read more ...

CRAY XT4 – La Dôle

Named after La Dôle in the Jura mountains in Vaud, western Switzerland, elevation 1677m
160 AMD quadcore Opteron @ 2.3 GHz. 1280 GB DDR RAM , 4 TB System Raid. This system was installed at the end of 2009 and it is the second platform for the Swiss weather forecasts. Read more ...

SUN - LCG-Tier2 cluster - Phoenix

96 nodes with Intel Nehalem @2.53 GHz quad-core (768 cores total); 2304 GB DDR3 RAM; 900 TB Disk and 40 Gbit IB QDR interconnect
 
The CSCS LCG cluster is a dedicated resource for the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics (CHIPP), mainly to analyze data coming from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments at CERN. CSCS operates the Swiss Tier2 in the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) for CHIPP and provides support to the whole CHIPP community. It is also part of the infrastructure of the European Grid Initiative (EGI).