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Phoenix PhaseC Upgrade Passed Acceptance Test
CSCS is happy to announce that Phoenix PhaseC Upgrade passed today the acceptance test. Phoenix is a HPC system run by CSCS used by the researchers of the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics CHIPP to...
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CHIPP Phoenix Phase C Now Fully Operational
CSCS is happy to announce that the Phase C of the Phoenix cluster of CHIPP has being put fully operational this Tuesday. At the same time Phase B has been switched off and is being decommissioned. The...
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Videos: The Physics and Experiments at the LHC
CSCS is operating an HPC system for the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics (CHIPP), which is used to analyze the data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment at CERN. CSCS asked CHIPP to...
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Record CPU Time in September on Phoenix (LCG2 Grid Cluster)
After upgrading to Phase C and making several improvements during the last months, September 2010 surpassed all Phoenix GRID Cluster records running around 200.000 jobs and computing more than 850.000...
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Phoenix Phase D to Analyse LHC Data Inaugurated
Today, CSCS announced the inauguration of phase D of the «Phoenix» cluster. Phase D increases the computing capabilities of Phoenix by 20% with 240 more cores, and storage increased by 30% with 230 TB,...
View ArticleInterview with Christoph Grab – First Results from the LHC Experiment and the...
Christoph Grab is professor for experimental physics at ETH Zurich and coordinates the computing infrastructure for the Swiss particle physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment at CERN....
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Visit of the ATLAS experiment at CERN: Behind the scenes of the search for...
In the last weeks the international press was reporting about the first results in the search for the Higg particle at CERN. The infrastructure behind the the LHC experiment in Geneva is impressing in...
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Efficiency of clusters used by CSCS to analyze CERN data up to 20% higher...
On Feb. 16 2012, the ATLAS I/O performance tests ran a CSCS showed that the current configuration of Phoenix, the cluster providing service to the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics, outperforms in...
View ArticleChristoph Grab comments on the latest results on the search for the Higgs...
Today researchers working on the LHC experiment at CERN presented the observation of a new particle with a mass of 125 GeV. This is a very important step on the search for the standard model (SM) Higgs...
View Articlehpc-ch Forum: CHIPP Phoenix Life Cycle Management at CSCS
Last October EPF Lausanne, the University of Lausanne and Vital-IT hosted a hpc-ch Forum on Hardware Life-Cycle and User Policies for HPC systems. As HPC service provider we are concerned with...
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