Piz Daint (supercomputer)

Piz Daint is a supercomputer in the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, named after the mountain Piz Daint in the Swiss Alps.

Piz Daint
Active2012–present
(upgraded November 2016)
LocationSwiss National Supercomputing Centre
ArchitectureIntel Xeon E5-26xx (various), Nvidia Tesla P100
Power2.272 MW
Operating systemLinux (CLE)
Storage8.7 PB
Speed25.326 PFLOPS (LINPACK)
RankingTOP500: 20th, as of November 2021[1]
Websitewww.cscs.ch/computers/piz-daint/

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

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The 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

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  1. ^ a b November 2021 TOP500 Supercomputer Sites
  2. ^ November 2016 TOP500 Supercomputer Sites
  3. ^ Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, 19 June 2017 (page visited on 19 June 2017).
  4. ^ Anna Maltsev and Felix Würsten, "Piz Daint is a world leader", ETH Zurich, 19 June 2017 (page visited on 19 June 2017).
  5. ^ (in French) "Un superordinateur suisse au 3e rang mondial des machines de pointe", Swissinfo, 19 June 2017 (page visited on 19 June 2017).
  6. ^ "TOP500 list refreshed, US edged out of third place", TOP500, 19 June 2017 (page visited on 19 June 2017).
  7. ^ "Piz Daint - Cray XC50, Xeon E5-2690v3 12C 2.6GHz, Aries interconnect, NVIDIA Tesla P100 | TOP500". www.top500.org. Retrieved 2020-11-30.
  8. ^ CSCS: Piz Daint Archived 2014-03-02 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ CSCS: Piz Daint & Piz Dora