SC attracts an exclusive group of scientists, researchers, department managers, lab directors and decision makers from all corners of the High Performance Computing (HPC) and networking industry. This year, SC13 will feature one of the largest exhibitions in conference history, with nearly 400 exhibitors from industry and research institutions around the world. The representatives of CSCS and [...]
Piz Daint is No.6 on the TOP500 and the most energy efficient system in the TOP10 “The new entry in the TOP10 is at No. 6 –Piz Daint, a Cray XC30 system installed at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano, Switzerland and now the most powerful system in Europe. Piz Daint achieved 6.27 [...]
The Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) announces that the upgraded Cray XC30 supercomputer “Piz Daint” has exceeded petaflops sustained performance in scientific production runs. At the same time “Piz Daint” demonstrates significant improvements in the energy efficiency. This important milestone will enable researchers to study more detailed models with higher accuracy. “Piz Daint”, in operation [...]
The last edition of Scientific Computing World asked a number of industry experts the question of how and when we might reach exascale computing. For Thomas Schultess, professor of Computational Physics and director at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS), “The industry at large is in a state of confusion, because exascale as a goal [...]
