28.11.2019 New features on the CSCS account and resources management tool Since the beginning of 2019, CSCS has provided a web-based tool to let users manage their accounts and projects. One of...
11.11.2019 Date visite guidate del CSCS 2020 Il CSCS organizza delle visite guidate aperte al pubblico per permettere a chiunque fosse interessato di visitare...
06.11.2019 Visit new CSCS booth at SC19 Since 2011, CSCS and the hpc-ch Community have hosted a booth at the annual SC Conference, and this year we will be back...
29.10.2019 Monte Leone shutdown End of September 2019, after 5 years of successful computing, Monte Leone was retired as a production cluster.
24.10.2019 CSCS Hosts 74th HPC User Forum in Lugano A group of about 50 high-performance computing (HPC) specialists and industry experts gathered for the 74th HPC User...
03.10.2019 Workshop: High-Performance Computing with Python CSCS is pleased to announce that the "High-Performance Computing with Python" course will be held from November 11-13,...
01.10.2019 User Lab Day 2019: The Scientific Community Meets, Learns from CSCS Staff in Lucerne Workshop The User Engagement & Support team of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) welcomed more than a hundred of...
24.09.2019 Workshop: Introduction to Parallel Programming with HPX CSCS is pleased to announce that the "Introduction to Parallel Programming with HPX" course will be held from October...
16.09.2019 CSCS supporting the Visionary Day CSCS is delighted to be a sponsor supporter of the first edition of the Visionary Day that will take place in Lugano on...
10.09.2019 Workshop: Advanced C++ CSCS is pleased to announce that the "Advanced C++" workshop will be held from October 14-16, 2019 at CSCS in Lugano,...
27.08.2019 CSCS to host the HPC User Forum CSCS is pleased to announce the HPC User Forum that will be held from October 7 to 8, 2019 at the Hotel De La Paix in...
13.08.2019 Workshop: Advanced Scientific Visualization with ParaView CSCS is pleased to announce the course “Advanced Scientific Visualization with ParaView” to be held on September 25-26,...
08.08.2019 Extension of CSCS home page with “social wall” We are happy to announce an extension of the home page of www.cscs.ch with a “social wall”, to aggregate the feeds of...
27.06.2019 ETH Zurich Team RACKlette Earns Success at ISC-HPCAC Student Cluster Competition ETH Zurich Team RACKlette participated for the first time in the 2019 ISC-HPCAC Student Cluster Competition. RACKlette...
25.06.2019 Video: Information Event on Swiss participation in EuroHPC The video of the information event on Swiss participation in EuroHPC - The European High-Performance Computing Joint...
24.06.2019 Save-the-date: CSCS User Lab Day on September 9, 2019 in Luzern CSCS is delighted to invite you at the “CSCS User Lab Day – Meet the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre”, which will...
12.06.2019 Information Event on Swiss Participation in EuroHPC The State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI), Euresearch and CSCS, would like to invite you to an...
16.05.2019 Fresh Faces of HPC: The Chairman of the HPC-AI Advisory Council discusses the ISC19 Student Cluster Competition Professionals across the field of high-performance computing (HPC) are preparing for yet another productive gathering at...
14.05.2019 Workshop: High-Performance Computing with Python The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre is pleased to announce that the "High-Performance Computing with Python" course...
29.04.2019 Knowledge is Computing Power: A Conversation with the HPC Advisory Council Swiss Conference Organizers The HPC-AI Advisory Council (HPCAIAC), along with the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) and the HPCXXL Board,...
23.04.2019 Event: European Trilinos User Group Meeting The Trilinos Project Team and CSCS are pleased to announce a one-day European Trilinos User Group Meeting.
17.04.2019 Workshop: Software Management The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre is pleased to announce the "Software Management" course to be held on May...
16.04.2019 21.7 Mio. node hours distributed in the User Lab and PRACE Tier-0 calls A total of 21.7 Mio. node hours has been distributed in the first two calls of 2019 in the User Lab and PRACE Tier-0...
09.04.2019 Fenix Consortium partner ETH Zurich/CSCS e-infrastructure enabling nine projects from Human Brain Project To create the Fenix Infrastructure, leading European Supercomputing Centres BSC (Spain), CEA (France), CINECA (Italy),...
02.04.2019 CSCS/USI Summer School 2019 on HPC and Data Analytics The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre and Università della Svizzera Italiana are pleased to announce that the annual...
27.03.2019 I premi Doron 2019 vanno al Prof. dott. Thomas Schulthess e al Centro Culturale Chiasso Il 3 aprile 2019 la Fondazione Svizzera per il Premio Doron assegnerà a Zugo due premi all’impegno scientifico e...
26.03.2019 Interactive Supercomputing with JupyterLab Bridging the gap between desktop computing and High-Performance Computing.
25.03.2019 EuroHack19 - GPU Programming Hackathon CSCS is pleased to announce that the fifth GPU-programming EuroHack will be held from September 30 to October 04, 2019...
06.03.2019 PRACEdays19 Call for Contributions and Posters PRACE will organise the sixth edition of its Scientific and Industrial Conference – PRACEdays19 – as part of the EuroHPC...
05.03.2019 CSCS and PSI start project to enable extreme data scientific workflows across institutions An ambitious project proposed jointly by CSCS and PSI has been selected to receive the Swissuniversities P-5 grant. The...
15.02.2019 Webinar: Getting Started at CSCS We are glad to announce the webinar “Getting Started at CSCS”, to be held on February 27th 2019.
12.02.2019 Workshop: Efficient and distributed training with TensorFlow on Piz Daint We are pleased to announce that the "Efficient and distributed training with TensorFlow on Piz Daint" course will be...
04.02.2019 Exascale computing is coming soon, but will scientific communities be ready to make use of it? CSCS joined beginning of 2019 the second phase of the ESiWACE-2 project.
01.02.2019 BrainComp Call for Proposals CSCS co-sponsoring the BrainComp Young Researchers Competition to solve neuroscientific problems by using HPC.
29.01.2019 The CSCS partner NCCR MARVEL PIs wins swissuniversities grant to scale-up Materials Cloud The multidisciplinary team made up of people from EPFL and CSCS (ETH) won a swissuniversities P-5 grant to further...
25.01.2019 Call for Proposals for HPC Compute Resources from DECI-15 (Tier-1) The PRACE DECI programme provides cross-national access to European Tier-1 HPC resources (national systems). Access will...
14.01.2019 CSCS new users web-portal CSCS has opened a new web-based tool to let users manage their accounts and projects.
13.12.2018 Event - Metrics and Logs: Elastic{Meetup} #40 CSCS welcomes the Elastic Community to first Elastic Meetup in Ticino for an evening of information sharing.
03.12.2018 MaX centre of excellence gets additional funding CSCS is participating since its creation in 2015 in in the Materials at eXascale (MaX) centre of excellence.
28.11.2018 Date visite guidate del CSCS 2019 Sono ora disponibili online le date per le visite guidate aperte al pubblico del CSCS. Vi aspettiamo numerosi!
31.10.2018 Maestro Consortium Maestro Consortium addresses the ubiquitous problems of data movement in data-intensive applications and workflows
04.10.2018 Visit of the EU Telecom & Digital Attachés Thomas Schulthess introduces the participants to the Piz Daint supercomputer
02.10.2018 CSCS User Lab Day 2018 – Meet the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre In Lucerne CSCS welcomed on September 11 more than 70 scientists from Swiss universities and research institutions to...
12.09.2018 CSCS Call for proposals and the PRACE Tier-0 Call 18 Information on the next regular CSCS Call for proposals and the PRACE Tier-0 Call 18.
21.08.2018 Highlights of the CSCS-USI Summer School 2018 A review of the CSCS-USI Summer School on "High Performance & Parallel GPU Computing”
11.07.2018 Course: High-Performance Computing with Python CSCS is pleased to announce the "High-Performance Computing with Python" course.
22.06.2018 ETH-Library Interview with Thomas Schulthess The Director of CSCS explains the importance of supercomputers for the scientific research.
18.06.2018 CSCS booth at ISC 2018 Conference Since 2011 CSCS and the hpc-ch Community are present at the ISC Conference and this year is no exception! Our booth will...
15.06.2018 PASC18 Registration Deadline The last chance to register to PASC18 in Basel is approaching
20.04.2018 Workshop on Exploiting Supercomputers and Containers for Data Science CSCS is pleased to announce a two and a half day workshop on Exploiting Supercomputers and Containers for Data Science...
18.04.2018 CSCS User Lab Day - Meet the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre CSCS is delighted to invite you at the “CSCS User Lab Day – Meet the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre”, which will...
05.04.2018 CSCS Annual Report 2017 It is with pleasure that we publish today the CSCS Annual Report 2017.
04.04.2018 Take a dive into the world of Piz Daint PRACE presented a video about the Supercomputer Piz Daint hosted by the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre CSCS, its...
09.03.2018 CSCS Call for proposals and the PRACE Tier-0 Call 17 Information on the next regular CSCS Call for proposals and the PRACE Tier-0 Call 17.
27.02.2018 Workshop: Directive Based GPU Programming The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre is pleased to announce that the "Directive Based GPU Programming" workshop will...
22.02.2018 Workshop: In Situ Analysis and Visualization with SENSEI & Advanced Visualization Techniques The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre is pleased to announce the two-day workshop "In Situ Analysis and Visualization...
15.02.2018 Webinar on Best Practices for Building Software CSCS is pleased to announce a webinar on Best Practices for Building Software on Piz Daint, to be held on Thursday...
14.02.2018 CSCS-USI Summer School 2018 CSCS is pleased to announce the CSCS-USI Summer School on "High Performance & Parallel GPU Computing” that will be held...
31.01.2018 The best apprentice of Ticino in the category systems administrator David Isztl, apprentice of ETH Zurich at CSCS from 2013 – 2017, has been awarded the prize for best apprentice of Ticino...
13.10.2017 PASC18 Call for Submissions The PASC18 Organizing Team is pleased to announce that submissions are now open for minisymposium, paper and poster...
04.10.2017 PRACE 15th Call continues to award outstanding research in HPC The 15th PRACE Call for Proposals yielded 76 eligible proposals of which 46 were awarded a total of close to 1.7...
12.09.2017 A la découverte de Piz Daint, le 3e ordinateur le plus puissant du monde Le Centre suisse de calcul scientifique (CSCS) est utilisé par le LHC du Cern, le projet Blue Brain ou encore Météo...
03.07.2017 Fourth PASC Conference in Lugano The fourth PASC Conference took place in Lugano from 26 to 28 June. It has grown yet again, with close to 400...
30.06.2017 Factsheet: “Piz Daint”, one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world A new fact sheet on "Piz Daint, one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world" is now available.
19.06.2017 “Piz Daint”, one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world A hardware upgrade in the final quarter of 2016 saw “Piz Daint”, Europe’s most powerful supercomputer, more than triple...
20.03.2017 "Piz Daint" for Europe, European supercomputers for Switzerland Spearheaded by ETH Zurich and CSCS, Switzerland has from the outset been a member of the Partnership for Advanced...
02.02.2017 CSCS & USI Summer School 2017 CSCS is pleased to announce the CSCS & USI Summer School 2017.
16.12.2016 Video of the 25th anniversary celebration of CSCS On 19 October around 60 representatives from politics, industry and science celebrated the 25th anniversary of...
20.10.2016 Impressions of 25 years of CSCS On 19 October around 60 representatives from politics, industry and science celebrated the 25th anniversary of...
19.10.2016 "Collaboration has never been as close as it is today" The Swiss National Computing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano is hosting a party with 60 guests on the 19th of October to...
18.10.2016 Twenty-five years supporting Switzerland as a research hub The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) is turning twenty-five. Having established itself on the international...
11.10.2016 Video shutdown Albis and Lema Video of the shutdown of the supercomputers Albis and Lema after more than 4 years of service.
26.09.2016 Allocation of computer time, October 2016 to September 2017 The demand for computer time for the new computing period from October 2016 to September 2017 was over three times...
05.09.2016 More efficient simulations for more efficient aircraft The ‘Piz Daint’ supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) is again assisting researchers in...
19.07.2016 ISC Best Visualization Award The visualization of the research work results of Mauro Calderara, Sascha Brueck, Andreas Pedersen, Mohammad Hossein...
15.06.2016 PASC16 in Lausanne Scientists from a wide range of disciplines gathered at the SwissTech Convention Center in Lausanne from 8 to 10 June...
10.05.2016 Allocation of computer time, April 2016 to March 2017 32 new projects have been running on the CSCS supercomputer infrastructure since April. Together with 10 smaller and 20...
23.03.2016 "The strength and uniqueness of the PASC Conference lies in its multidisciplinarity" The PASC Conference is one of the outcomes of the PASC initiative (Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing). The...
22.10.2015 Alla scoperta dei supercomputer di Lugano e della ricerca «I cervelli che contano» è stato lo slogan della giornata delle porte aperte tenutasi a Lugano presso il Centro...
12.10.2015 Porte Aperte al CSCS All´insegna del motto “I cervelli che contano”, il Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico ha il piacere di invitarvi...
20.07.2015 Lugano hosts first EuroHack Despite what the name “EuroHack” may lead people to believe, no external systems were hacked during the EuroHack...
10.07.2015 Piz Daint, the first supercomputer with sustained petaflops-scale performance in Switzerland A new fact sheet on "Piz Daint, the first supercomputer with sustained petaflops-scale performance in Switzerland" is...
30.06.2015 CSCS – an engine for innovation and a User Lab for cutting-edge research A new fact sheet on "CSCS - an engine for innovation and a User Lab for cutting-edge research" is now available.
17.06.2015 Second PASC Conference at ETH Zurich The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) held its second annual conference on advanced scientific computing...
25.02.2015 Monte Rosa is history - the future is a universal computing platform The Monte Rosa supercomputer has been supporting users at CSCS in their scientific research since 2009. There have been...
07.01.2015 PASC15 Conference: Call for Participation The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) is delighted to launch a Call for Participation to its next...
05.01.2015 Umweltbericht 2015 der Bundesverwaltung - Berichtsperiode 2013–2014 Auf Seite 29 des Umweltbericht 2015 der Bundesverwaltung wird über das CSCS berichtet:
11.12.2014 University of Zurich takes a stake in CSCS supercomputer In May the Executive Board gave approval for the expansion of supercomputing at CSCS. The University of Zurich will...
10.11.2014 "Piz Daint" on the list of Gordon Bell Prize finalists For almost four decades the Gordon Bell Prize has been awarded every year to recognize outstanding achievement in...
18.06.2014 User Meeting 2014 In recent years CSCS used to organize an annual User Day that gave you an update on CSCS roadmap, projects, and...
17.06.2014 Slidecast from the PASC14 Conference Almost 250 researchers flocked to the first PASC conference at ETH Zurich to take part in an interdisciplinary meeting...
12.06.2014 Scientific supercomputing in the spotlight Almost 250 researchers flocked to the first PASC conference at ETH Zurich to take part in an interdisciplinary meeting...
11.09.2013 Promising hybrid computer architecture at CSCS With “Piz Daint” the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) is putting a new supercomputer system in operation that...
24.07.2013 CSCS - a User Lab for world-class research A new fact sheet on "CSCS - a User Lab for world-class research" is now available.
20.03.2013 With "Piz Daint" CSCS enters the path towards petaflop computing The new CSCS supercomputer named "Piz Daint" is the first and largest Cray XC30 system installed worldwide. Its...
27.01.2013 Supercomputer, strumenti della scienza moderna Il 25 gennaio il Dr. Diego Rossinelli ha intrattenuto il pubblico del CSCS parlando di "Supercomputer, strumenti della...
28.11.2012 HP2C − an initiative for more computing efficiency A new fact sheet on "HP2C - an initiative for more computing efficiency" is now available.
25.11.2012 Alla scoperta dei pericoli dei terremoti attraverso le simulazioni Il CSCS ha deciso di organizzare un ciclo di conferenze scientifiche aperte al pubblico per permettere a chiunque fosse...
25.09.2012 CSCS grants 53,163,300 computing hours 25 research teams applied for computing time at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) during the time period...
03.09.2012 Grande successo di pubblico alle porte aperte Oltre 2000 visitatori hanno partecipato alle Porte Aperte del CSCS. Sabato scorso il CSCS ha aperto le sue porte al...
03.09.2012 Open day On Saturday CSCS opened its doors to the public from 10am to 5pm. Visitors were greeted with tours of the computer...
31.08.2012 National high-performance computing strategy set in stone After almost two years in the making, Switzerland has a new high-performance computing centre – and one of the most...
28.08.2012 HP2C projects and their chief initiators A new fact sheet on "HP2C projects and their chief initiators" is now available.
14.06.2012 Porte Aperte Il nuovo centro svizzero di calcolo scientifico, costruito all'insegna della lungimiranza nella progettazione, dell'...
31.05.2012 CSCS Relocation from Manno to Lugano-Cornaredo Information on system availability and downtimes during the move from Manno to Lugano-Cornaredo. This webpage is updated...
17.04.2012 CSCS - driving innovation in computational research in Switzerland A new fact sheet on "CSCS - driving innovation in computational research in Switzerland" is now available.
12.03.2012 CSCS moves into new computer centre in Lugano The staff at CSCS have moved to their new office at Lugano-Cornaredo. The new ultra-modern office building will provide...
16.01.2012 Timelapse with the construction of the new computing centre in Lugano See the construction of the new building for the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre in Lugano.
07.10.2011 Visit US Ambassador The American ambassador in Switzerland pays the CSCS a visit. A technology and science enthusiast, the diplomat was...
30.09.2011 User Day 2011 The CSCS User Day brought together around 60 users in Lucerne on 23 September. Exciting scientific lectures, lively...
03.02.2011 Roofing Ceremony On February 3rd, 2011 ETH Zurich and Implenia Impresa Generale SA are pleased to celebrate with the authorities the...
20.12.2010 Assembling the Data Centre Roof Have a look to the assembling of the data center roof for the new Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano...
20.05.2010 Energy Colloquia Ladina Gilly presents the New CSCS Building at the Energy Colloquia at ETH Zurich
26.09.2009 Funding for new CSCS building confirmed On December 16th, 2009 Dr. Fritz Schiesser, President of ETH Board, confirmed that the Swiss federal Parliament had...
23.04.2009 L'astrofisica e i supercomputer Il prof. Lucio Mayer dell'Università di Zurigo ci spiega come lavorano gli astrofisici e come utilizzano per il proprio...
