Just over the mail transom today, news from the Federal Authorities of the Swiss Confederation that they’ve adopted and are funding a national HPC strategy. Bill Feiereisen sent me the pointer and explained what it all means (since the release is in German and I don’t speak much German any more)
You have to read German for this, but this is a significant development in Europe. It cites the adoption of a national strategy for HPC that is to be implemented over three years at a cost of 172M CHF — somewhere around $150M. This is a big deal for a small country, but shows that small can be nimbler than big.
I’ll watch for the announcement to come out in English and post the link here.
Auto-translation from German to English:
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.admin.ch%2Faktuell%2F00089%2Findex.html%3Flang%3Dde%26msg-id%3D27155&sl=de&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Dan – cool, thanks!
For an overview of the HPC activities in Switzerland, have a look at the web pages of the Swiss HPC Service Provider Community (http://www.hpc-ch.org)
The goal of hpc-ch is to support and foster the knowledge exchange between providers of HPC systems at Swiss universities.