News
Sunday, 12 May 2013
PRACE Call for Proposal
PRACE has issued a Call for Proposals for DECI-11 (Tier-1): ( deadline: 10th June 2013, 12:00 CEST ; stake: 1 year allocation starting: 1st Nov, 2013 ; resources: all Tier-1 machines)
Let us know if you respond and participate!
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Fifth CÉCI Scientific Meeting program announced.
The program for the fifth CÉCI scientific meeting day on April the 19th is available here (pdf - 71K)
Do not forget to register by sending an email to David.Colignon@ulg.ac.be !
Saturday, 23 March 2013
DRAGON1 installed at UMons
After Hmem and Lemaitre2, Dragon1 is the third CÉCI cluster to be set to production. It is installed at UMons. With fast Sandy Bridge E5-2670@2.6GHz and large maximum running times, it is the perfect match for single-core long jobs. From today, you can access it with your CÉCI credentials.
Friday, 22 March 2013
Echoes from PRACE
A.k.a. "curl www.prace-ri.eu/ | grep Interesting"
- Heterogeneous computing - impact on algorithms
- Computer Science Summer School 'Programming Heterogeneous Parallel Architecture'
- International Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences
- PRACE Summer School 2013, Ostrava, Czech Republic
- PRACE Spring School 2013, Umeå, Sweden
- 7th Parallel Tools Workshop 2013
- MAPPER Summer School 2013 on Distributed Multiscale Computing
Saturday, 09 March 2013
Additional training sessions planned mid March
Following the training sessions organized last Fall, The CISM and the CÉCI offer, this year, two additional training sessions
- Advanced gpu programming (by Sidi Mahmoudi, UMons) on Thursday March 14th at 14:00 in the DAO room of the Vinci Building in Louvain-la-Neuve
- MPI code debugging on Thursday March 21st at 14:00 in the CANDIX room of the Vinci Building in Louvain-la-Neuve
Registration is free but mendatory at this web page. More info on the CISM website
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
7th PRACE Regular Call for Proposals open
The 7th PRACE Regular Call for Proposals will be open from 13 February 2013 until 26 March 2013, noon, 12:00 Brussels Time.
More info at http://www.prace-ri.eu/Call-Announcements
Monday, 11 February 2013
Fifth CÉCI Scientific Meeting date set
The date for the fifth CÉCI scientific meeting day is set to Friday, April the 19th. It will be organised in Namur. More information soon.
Wednesday, 07 November 2012
Two PRACE news
- PRACE update: Re-opening of Call 6
- PRACE Awards Record Number of Core Hours
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Belgium is now part of PRACE
Belgium has entered the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) Council. See more information here.
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Future Generations of Processors and Systems.
The next Symposium on Future Generations of Processors and Systems (FGPS 175)
is held in UMONS, on November 9th, 2012. Participation is free, but
registration (before October 31rd)
is mandatory.
Press Coverage
Monday, 22 April 2013
La Libre article about UNamur's cluster inauguration.
La Libre has a short article about the latest CÉCI scientific day, held in Namur on April 19th, 2013, where the new CÉCI cluster was inaugurated.
See the article here.
Tuesday, 01 May 2012
Article about CÉCI and CISM in 'La Quinzaine'
La Quinzaine, the internal magazine of UCLouvain, publishes an article about the CISM and the CÉCI in its May issue.
See the article here.
Friday, 10 February 2012
Second Datanews article about CÉCI this year
The latest issue of Datanews offers a one-page article about the CÉCI. Based on an interview with Thomas Keutgen, manager at the supercomputing centre of UCL, the article details the CÉCI initiative, organization and roadmap. The article highlights the fact that, by 2013, the CÉCI clusters should represent a total of 6000 to 7000 compute cores.
See the article here.
Friday, 27 January 2012
Datanews article about CÉCI
Datanews publishes an article about Lemaitre2, the new CÉCI cluster installed at UCL. The article, titled "L'UCL installe 14 Tflops", describes the new cluster and compares its features to the olders clusters from UCL. The article also brievely presents the CÉCI and its organisation.
See the article here.
Monday, 20 December 2010
Roundup for the year 2010
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22 November 2010 : Article in "La Libre Belgique" about the (lack of) funding of the F.R.S.-FNRS, citing the CÉCI as an example.
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17 November 2010 : Two mentions of the CÉCI agreement signature on the FNRS news. Read the first one and the second one.
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16 November 2010 : TV report by Canal Zoom about the signature of the CÉCI consoriumt agreement.
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12 November 2010 : Article in "Le Vif" about the creation of the CÉCI consortium.
