The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre ( Italian : Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico ; CSCS ) is the national high-performance computing centre of Switzerland . It was founded in Manno , canton Ticino , in 1991. In March 2012, the CSCS moved to its new location in Lugano -Cornaredo.
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57-498: A new POWER6-based System p 575 with 32 POWER6 cores at 4.7 GHz and up to 256 GB of RAM with water cooling. All IBM System p5 and IBM e Server p5 machines support DLPAR (Dynamic Logical Partitioning) with Virtual I/O and Micro-partitioning . System p generally uses the AIX operating system and, more recently, 64-bit versions of the Linux operating system. The IBM p690 was, at
76-516: A technology platform for Swiss research in computational science . CSCS is an autonomous unit of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich ( ETH Zurich ) and closely collaborates with the local University of Lugano (USI). The building at the new location Lugano-Cornaredo has a pillar-free machine hall of 2,000 m and can be powered with up to 20 MW electricity. Water for cooling
95-447: A user lab, CSCS promotes and encourages top-notch research. Simulations created on supercomputers yield completely new insights in science. Consequently, CSCS operates cutting-edge computer systems as an essential service facility for Swiss researchers. These computers aid scientists with diverse issues and requirements - from the pure calculation of complex problems to analysis of complex data. The pool of national high-performance computers
114-517: Is available to its users as a so-called user lab: all researchers in and out of Switzerland can use the supercomputer infrastructure. In addition to the computers of the User Lab, CSCS operates dedicated compute resources for strategic research projects and tasks of national interest. Since 2001, the calculations for the numerical weather prediction of the Swiss meteorological survey MeteoSwiss take place at
133-515: The Swiss systems biology initiative SystemsX and the Centre for Climate Systems Modelling C2SM at ETH Zurich . For supporting the further development of its supercomputing services, CSCS regularly evaluates relevant new technologies ( technology scouting ) and publishes the results as white papers on its website. In 2009, CSCS and the University of Lugano jointly launched the platform HP2C with
152-544: The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre is a so-called National User Lab. It is open to all Swiss researchers and their assistants, who can get free access to CSCS' supercomputers in a competitive scientific evaluation process. In addition, the centre operates dedicated computing facilities for specific research projects and national mandates, e.g. weather forecasting . It is the national competence centre for high-performance computing and serves as
171-572: The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre. In January 2008, the first operational high-resolution weather forecasting suite in Europe was taken in production on a massively-parallel supercomputer at CSCS. Another dedicated computer resource operated by CSCS is the Swiss tier-2 computer cluster for the Computing Grid of the CERN LHC accelerator. CSCS also provides storage services for massive data sets of
190-680: The Systems Agenda, the family was again renamed to System p5 . The System p5 now encompassed the IBM OpenPower product line. In 2007, after the introduction of the POWER6 processor models, the last rename under the System p brand dropped the p (numbered) designation. In April 2008, IBM announced a rebranding of the System p and its unification with the mid-range System i platform. The resulting product line
209-723: The differences between throughput and number crunching-optimized systems no longer existed. Since then, System p machines evolved to use the POWER5 but also the PowerPC 970 for the low-end and blade systems. The last System p systems used the POWER6 processor, such as the POWER6-based System p 570 and the JS22 blade. In addition, during the SuperComputing 2007 (SC07) conference in Reno, IBM introduced
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#1732855611923228-572: The goal to prepare the application codes of Swiss researchers for upcoming supercomputer architectures. 46°1′28.81″N 8°57′36.21″E / 46.0246694°N 8.9600583°E / 46.0246694; 8.9600583 IBM System p The IBM System p is a high-end line of RISC ( Power )/ UNIX -based servers. It was the successor of the RS/6000 line, and predecessor of the IBM Power Systems server series. The previous RS/6000 line
247-405: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CSCS&oldid=1250623814 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico The main function of
266-472: The supercomputers is taken from Lake Lugano in 45m depth and pumped over a distance of 2.8 km to the centre. Thus, little energy is consumed for providing the cooling and the computer centre achieves a high energy efficiency with a PUE < 1.25. Supercomputer procurements at CSCS can be categorised into two phases: In the first phase from 1991 to 2011, the centre focused on proven technologies in order to facilitate user access to its services. This strategy
285-503: The time of its release in late 2001, the flagship of IBM's high-end Unix servers during the POWER4 era of processors. It was built to run IBM AIX Unix, although it is possible to run a version of Linux minus some POWER4-specific features. It could support up to 32 (1.5, 1.7 or 1.9 GHz) POWER4+ processors and 1 TB of RAM , which weighs well over 1000 kg. It was used in a supercomputer at Forschungszentrum Jülich in 2004, and
304-478: Was called IBM Power Systems . Whereas the previous RS/6000 line used a mix of early POWER and PowerPC processors, when pSeries came along, this had evolved into RS64-III and POWER3 across the board—POWER3 for its excellent floating-point performance and RS64 for its scalability, throughput, and integer performance. IBM developed the POWER4 processor to replace both POWER3 and the RS64 line in 2001. After that,
323-459: Was centred on the SX vector processor architecture of NEC . The IBM SP4 , installed 2002, was the first production system of CSCS with a massively-parallel computer architecture. The procurement of the first Cray XT3 in Europe in 2005 marked the beginning of the second phase. Since then, CSCS concentrates on early technologies, preferably before they become a generally available product. Run as
342-482: Was discontinued in late 2005. Released in 2004. System p was rebranded to Power Systems in 2008. OpenPower was the name of a range of servers in the System p line from IBM . They featured IBM's POWER5 CPUs and run only 64-bit versions of Linux . IBM's own UNIX variant, AIX is not supported since the OpenPower servers are not licensed for this operating system . There were two models available, with
361-404: Was originally a line of workstations and servers. The first System p server line was named the e Server pSeries in 2000 as part of the e-Server branding initiative. In 2004, with the advent of the POWER5 processor, the server family was rebranded the e Server p5 . In 2005, following IBM's move to streamline its server and storage brands worldwide, and incorporating the "System" brand with
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