The Swiss National Supercomputer Center (CSCS) is replacing its flagship Piz Daint supercomputer in Lugano, Switzerland, with a new Cray system. The current 25 petaflops Piz Daint, a Cray XC40/XC50 ...

The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) has switched off its Piz Daint supercomputer. After more than a decade of use, the system went offline on January 23. Piz Daint, a 27 petaflops Cray ...

ETH News: Last year, the first phase of installing the new supercomputer "Alps", the successor to "Piz Daint", started. How has the work been going so far during the Corona crisis? Thomas Schulthess: ...

According to a study published in Scientific Reports, anomalies deep within the Earth's mantle appear to be remnants of submerged tectonic plates—but located far from where such plates are typically ...

It was bad enough when the Chinese leapfrogged the United States in the supercomputer field, but now it looks as though Switzerland has come in and poured salt on America’s wounds. This morning, the ...

Piz Daint performs 3.2 billion operations (3.2 gigaflops) per watt, making it fourth in the Green500 ranking of the most energy-efficient supercomputers. The TSUBAME KFC computer at the Tokyo ...

The fastest computer in the world today can deliver about 125 petaflops of performance, but that could quadruple in the coming years. Cray’s XC50, announced Monday, can deliver a petaflop of ...