Top Swiss Tech University Joins Push to Spread GPU-Powered Supercomputing

More performance. Less money. Less power. If computers are to hit new performance milestones in a world of shrinking resources and limited budgets, the industry will have to rethink how it designs and builds these systems. Hybrid multicore supercomputers – systems that couple high-performance, energy-efficient GPU accelerators with CPUs – are the ideal way to address this issue. Delivering cost-effective, scalable performance while using far less energy than comparable CPU-based systems, these systems, to many industry experts, represent the next 10-20 years of computational science. Recognizing this, we’re partnering with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) – Albert Einstein’s alma mater – to establish the NVIDIA Co-Design Lab for Hybrid Multicore Computing at ETH Zurich.