Piz Daint is located at Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico – Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, ETH Zürich, Lugano, Switzerland. How to get access to Piz Daint |
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A hardware upgrade of Piz Daint in the final quarter of 2016 tripled the system performance (more info: see press release).
Architecture | Cray XC40/XC50 |
Peak performance | Hybrid: 25.326 Petaflops (5320 hybrid nodes) Multicore: 1.731 Petaflops (1431 multicore nodes) |
Processors | XC50 (“hybrid”) nodes: Intel® Xeon® E5-2690 v3 @ 2.60GHz (12 cores, 64GB RAM) and NVIDIA® Tesla® P100 16GBXC40 (“multicore”) nodes: Two Intel® Xeon® E5-2695 v4 @ 2.10GHz (2 x 18 cores, 64/128 GB RAM) |
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Operating system | SUSE SLES 11.3 |
Job scheduler | Slurm |
Login nodes | Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2650 v3 @ 2.30GHz (10 cores, 256 GB RAM) |
More information | https://www.cscs.ch/computers/piz-daint/ https://www.cscs.ch/publications/news/piz-daint-one-of-the-most-powerful-supercomputers-in-the-world/ |
Contact | Colin McMurtrie (cmurtrie@cscs.ch) Alex Upton (alex.upton@cscs.ch) |