18 June 2012

ETH Zurich, IBM and Paul Scherrer Institut Researchers receive 2012 PRACE Award

HAMBURG: At the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC12) researchers from ETH Zurich, the renown science and technology university; IBM Research - Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland’s largest research centre for natural and engineering sciences, received the 2012 PRACE Award.

The PRACE Awards recognizes the best scientific paper in one of the following areas: a breakthrough in science achieved with high performance computing resources, algorithms or implementations that achieve significant improvements in scalability, or novel approaches to performance evaluation on massively parallel architectures.

Yves Ineichen, (ETH, IBM, PSI); Andreas Adelmann (PSI); Costas Bekas, Alessandro Curioni (IBM); and Peter Arbenz (ETH); received the award for their paper “A Fast and Scalable Low Dimensional Solver for Charged Particle Dynamics in Large Particle Accelerators.” ISC12

Citation for the award: “This paper demonstrates how HPC can be used in real time to tune the operation of particle accelerators, which are invaluable tools for research in the basic and applied sciences, in fields such as materials science, chemistry, the biosciences, particle physics, nuclear physics and medicine,” communicated by Prof. Richard Kenway, chairman of the PRACE Scientific Steering Committee.
About PRACE
The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) is an international nonprofit association with its seat in Brussels. The PRACE Research Infrastructure (RI) provides a persistent world-class High Performance Computing (HPC) service for scientists and researchers from academia and industry. The PRACE leadership systems form the apex of the performance pyramid and are well integrated into the European HPC ecosystem. PRACE receives funding from the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n° RI-261557.