by Peter Rüegg, ETH Zurich It’s a fact: Switzerland’s Piz Daint is the fastest supercomputer in Europe. What’s more, it has now been named the greenest petaflop computer in the world at SC13 in Denver, Colorado (USA). Piz Daint performs 3.2 billion operations (3.2 gigaflops) per watt, making it fourth in the Green500 ranking of […]
The Gordon Bell Prize is awarded each November at the annual Supercomputing conference (SC). It recognizes outstanding and innovative achievements in applying high-performance computing to the sciences, to engineering, and to large scale data analytics. Candidates submitted their work by May 3rd, 2013, and two months later, the ACM Gordon Bell Prize Committee announced the six finalists for the […]
