Forscherteam aus dem Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory gewinnt ACM Gordon Bell Prize
Alexandros Nikolaos Ziogas, Dr. Tal Ben Nun, Timo Schneider und Prof. Torsten Hoefler aus dem Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory haben den angesehenen ACM Gordon Bell Prize erhalten. (Englisch)
ACM named a six-member team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich recipients of the 2019 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for their project, "A Data-Centric Approach to Extreme-Scale Ab initio Dissipative Quantum Transport Simulations." The team consists of Alexandros Nikolaos Ziogas, Dr. Tal Ben Nun, Timo Schneider and Prof. Torsten Hoefler from the Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory at the Department of Computer Science, as well as Guillermo Indalecio Fernández and Prof. Mathieu Luisier from the Integrated Systems Laboratory at the Department of Electrical Engineering.
The team developed a method that can simulate nanoelectronics devices and their properties realistically, quickly, and efficiently, using software named OMEN, a so-called quantum transport simulator. These simulations may help combat the overheating and the increased costs of cooling in increasingly small and powerful transistors used in supercomputers.
The Gordon Bell Prize, named after a pioneer in high-performance and parallel computing, is awarded each year to recognise outstanding achievement in high-performance computing, with particular emphasis on rewarding innovation in applying high-performance computing to applications in science, engineering, and large-scale data analytics.