Piz Daint is a supercomputer in the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, named after the mountain Piz Daint in the Swiss Alps.
| Active | 2012–present (upgraded November 2016) |
|---|---|
| Location | Swiss National Supercomputing Centre |
| Architecture | Intel Xeon E5-26xx (various), Nvidia Tesla P100 |
| Power | 2.272 MW |
| Operating system | Linux (CLE) |
| Storage | 8.7 PB |
| Speed | 25.326 PFLOPS (LINPACK) |
| Ranking | TOP500: 20th, as of November 2021[update][1] |
| Website | www |
It was ranked 8th on the TOP500 ranking of supercomputers until the end of 2015, higher than any other supercomputer in Europe.[2] At the end of 2016, the computing performance of Piz Daint was tripled to reach 25 petaflops; it thus became the third most powerful supercomputer in the world.[3][4][5][6] As of November 2021, Piz Daint is ranked 20th on the TOP500.[7][1]
History
editThe original Piz Daint Cray XC30 system was installed in December 2012.[8] This system was extended with Piz Dora, a Cray XC40 with 1,256 compute nodes, in 2013.[9] In October 2016, Piz Daint and Piz Dora were upgraded and combined into the current Cray XC50/XC40 system featuring Nvidia Tesla P100 GPUs.
References
edit- ^ a b November 2021 TOP500 Supercomputer Sites
- ^ November 2016 TOP500 Supercomputer Sites
- ^ Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, 19 June 2017 (page visited on 19 June 2017).
- ^ Anna Maltsev and Felix Würsten, "Piz Daint is a world leader", ETH Zurich, 19 June 2017 (page visited on 19 June 2017).
- ^ (in French) "Un superordinateur suisse au 3e rang mondial des machines de pointe", Swissinfo, 19 June 2017 (page visited on 19 June 2017).
- ^ "TOP500 list refreshed, US edged out of third place", TOP500, 19 June 2017 (page visited on 19 June 2017).
- ^ "Piz Daint - Cray XC50, Xeon E5-2690v3 12C 2.6GHz, Aries interconnect, NVIDIA Tesla P100 | TOP500". www.top500.org. Retrieved 2020-11-30.
- ^ CSCS: Piz Daint Archived 2014-03-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ CSCS: Piz Daint & Piz Dora
