Switzerland joining EGEE 7 March, 2005, GSI- Darmstadt by CSCS, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre

7 March 2005, M.-C. Sawley HB networks make locality less of an issue

7 March 2005, M.-C. Sawley CSCS mission statement CSCS is the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, providing, developing and promoting technical and scientific services for the Swiss research community on the fields of high-performance and high- throughput computing. It is a centre of competence that pioneers new information technologies; collaborates with domestic and foreign researchers, and carries out its own research and development in computational sciences and scientific computing.

7 March 2005, M.-C. Sawley Scientific Advisory Board Resource Allocation Board CSCS Advisory Function Strategic Level Operational Level User Group (self organised) CSCS Management 4 Steering Board Operational Hierarchy, funding Advice Strategic Steering Governance Acceptance (Self organised) Group Federal Dpt. Interior ETH Rat EPFL PSI EAWAG ETH Zurich WSL EMPA

7 March 2005, M.-C. Sawley Fluid Dynamics

7 March 2005, M.-C. Sawley Molecular Sciences The DNA molecule, a complex assembly of amino-acids in a double-helix frame… Collaboration with ETH Zürich, Prof. Parrinello

7 March 2005, M.-C. Sawley CSCS positioning User facility delivering leadership class computing for high end science nationwide Supporting breakthrough scienceSupporting breakthrough science Leading-edge programmsLeading-edge programms Academic partnershipsAcademic partnerships World class connectivityWorld class connectivity Sustainable path for leadership-class computersSustainable path for leadership-class computers

7 March 2005, M.-C. Sawley Different collaborative models To maintain and implement services for a large community at a sustainable cost Large User Projects (more than 150 refereed papers quoted) Partnership models for development, education and new technologies

7 March 2005, M.-C. Sawley CSCS Core business Modeling & Simulation Computer Science Domain Expertise

7 March 2005, M.-C. SawleyRoadmap High energy physics Zenith 08 Horizon Physics/ Astropyhsics Plasma physics Chemistry/ Materiali Meteo and Clima Engineering CFD Life sciences Virtual reality Computational Accelerator physics Data service Grid programme

7 March 2005, M.-C. Sawley The Grid programme Thematic  Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG) and SBG (Swiss Biogrid) Projects for prototyping specific Grid activities  Computing on demand, computational steering, remote visualization, remote instrumentation, brokering agents, etc.  Intelligent Scheduler Development with 2 partenrs: EPFL, University of Fribourg  Geneva project (University of Hannover) New business models with private sector

7 March 2005, M.-C. Sawley From infrastructure services.... HPC Advanced visualization Archive service Courses and tutorials

7 March 2005, M.-C. Sawley....to co-laboratory services Community building User services administration Distributed virtual workspaces and Advanced interfaces Knowledge space

7 March 2005, M.-C. Sawley With a cutting edge profile, expanding competence centre, with a present headcount of 32, comprised of 18 University Engineers, Scientists and Computer Scientists (6 PhD, 12 university degrees from MSc to Bachelor) and 7 Technical Engineers. multilingual and multicultural CSCS Official working language is English. The staff of the CSCS has a very strong international character, with 9 different nationalities, and is capable of speaking 10 different languages.

7 March 2005, M.-C. Sawley...we can develop a strategy of first class partnerships with Worldclass scientific players present in Switzerland Worldclass scientific centres Wordclass industrial partners And expand our network of direct, value added relations with some of the leaders in scientific computing in the US and Europe

7 March 2005, M.-C. Sawley Success is critical for a number of scientific themes Bioinformatics Chemistry Fusion HEP System biology Nanotechnology Remote visualization Leadership class IT servers and services Computer science, mathematics, tools Environment Engineering

7 March 2005, M.-C. Sawley Working for enabling scientific discovery in world class scientific centres in Switzerland