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The CSCS mission has been recently reinforced by the adoption of a development and investment plan, more autonomy and a new governance: its mission is to provide the calculating power, storage capacity and expertise for the simulation, modelling and analysis of complex data, necessary for Switzerland's leading scientific research. In 2003, in collaboration with CERN and the Swiss particle physics research laboratories, the centre began the construction of the Swiss link (Tier 2) of the worldwide LCG Grid. In the coming weeks CSCS, together with its partners, will be launching the national Grid Initiative for a selection of applications beyond particle physics.
This talk will give the perspective of the development plan of the CSCS for the 4 years to come. Localization, integrity and access to data, computing resources and skills have become steadily more important in scientific computing. In this context, the CSCS has a new role to play as facilitator for interdisciplinary collaborations of national scope in areas such as deep computing, distributed computing, benchmarking, data-intensive computing and remote visualization.
The portfolio of scientific applications at CSCS is presently formed by molecular sciences, computational chemistry, material modelling, climate and meteorology (partner of Meteo Swiss for daily forecast), engineering, physics and high energy physics, and is rapidly opening up to new disciplines, like biomedical applications.
(http://www.cscs.ch/)