Sponsors

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Switzerland

HPE HPC solutions scale up or scale out, on-premises or in the cloud, with purpose-built storage and software to power innovation. All your workloads, within your economic requirements.

HPE NVIDIA Alliance, Global Organization

The HPE & NVIDIA Alliance brings together best-in-class people, technology and partners. Through continuous collaboration, innovation & validation our companies are able to produce and deliver amazing high-performance compute platforms which help our customers solve mysteries and find solutions around the globe.

Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland

The Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) is the largest research institute for natural and engineering sciences in Switzerland, conducting cutting-edge research in three main fields: matter and materials, energy and the environment and human health. PSI develops, builds and operates complex large research facilities. Every year, more than 2500 scientists from Switzerland and around the world come to PSI to use our unique facilities to carry out experiments that are not possible anywhere else. PSI employs 2100 people and is part of the ETH Domain. Together with strong partners in the ETH Domain, PSI’s research division “Scientific Computing, Theory, and Data” focuses on the development of new computer and data technology. Comprehensive computer simulations, modelling, theoretical calculations and data analysis represent an essential component of the natural and engineering sciences. This is all the more true at PSI with its globally unique ensemble of large research facilities. Both their operations and the experiments that take place here produce large amounts of data.

EPFL-SCITAS, Switzerland

SCITAS, which stands for Scientific IT and Application Support, is a central service at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) that provides scientific computing resources and High Performance Computing (HPC) expertise to the EPFL community. SCITAS offers professional operation and maintenance of HPC clusters equipped with CPU or CPU/GPU nodes, an optimized scientific software stack, high bandwidth and low latency networks and petabyte-scale parallel distributed file systems shared between the clusters. Its supercomputer Kuma, is ranked 102 in the Top500 and 23rd in the Green500. SCITAS also provides specific application support for scientific software development.