Piz Daint (supercomputer)
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Piz Daint is a supercomputer in the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, named after the mountain Piz Daint in the Swiss Alps.
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Active | 2012–present (upgraded November 2016) |
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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 |
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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]