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Annual Report 2011 - CSCS

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II KEY INFORMATION<br />

Founded in 1991, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, <strong>CSCS</strong>,<br />

develops and promotes technical and scientific services for the Swiss<br />

research community in the field of high-performance computing.<br />

<strong>CSCS</strong> enables world-class scientific research by pioneering, operating<br />

and supporting leading-edge supercomputing technologies.<br />

Largest Production Machine<br />

Monte Rosa, Cray XE6, 402 TFlops,<br />

47 872 Cores, 46 TB Memory<br />

User Community<br />

<strong>2011</strong>: 80 Projects, 704 Users<br />

2010: 65 Projects, 605 Users<br />

Investments<br />

<strong>2011</strong>: 15.8 Mio CHF<br />

2010: 8.4 Mio CHF<br />

Computing Time for Science<br />

<strong>2011</strong>: 177 201 383 CPU h<br />

2010: 168 147 399 CPU h<br />

Employees<br />

<strong>2011</strong>: 51<br />

2010: 50<br />

Operational Costs<br />

<strong>2011</strong>: 11.9 Mio CHF<br />

2010: 14.3 Mio CHF

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