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Doctoral students Marcin Charpek and Mikhail Khalilov from Professor Torsten Hoefler's SPCL group have won the Best Student Paper Award and Best Reproducibility Advancement Award at the SC23 Conference. Congratulations! Watch the video from the conference here.

Founded by Professor Torsten Hoefler and his students, and supported by the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Team RACKlette offers computer science students the chance to learn about high-performance computing and get first-hand experience of how to set up and optimise such systems to run scientific or industrial applications.

In theory, quantum computers vastly outperform classical computers in terms of computing speed. For them to do so in practice, it is necessary to design more and novel high-​speed algorithms, says ETH supercomputing specialist Torsten Hoefler. 

Professor Torsten Hoefler, Head of the Institute for High Performance Computing Systems, is the inaugural recipient of the Jack Dongarra Early Career Award. Big congratulations!

Torsten Hoefler, Marc Pollefeys and Zhendong Su, professors at the Department of Computer Science, have been named ACM Fellows. The distinction recognises the extensive research contributions in their respective fields. Congratulations!

Three teams of researchers from the Department of Computer Science have received awards at the ACM Computer and Communications Security Conference (CCS), one of the top conferences in the field of security.

For his exceptional work, Marcin Copik, doctoral student at the Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory, has been awarded an ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship. Congratulations!

IEEE Computer Society honours Professor Torsten Hoefler with the Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award for his pioneering contributions to large-​scale parallel processing systems and supercomputers. The ideas and software professor Hoefler and his group developed are used by tens of thousands of scientists to power large-​scale scientific simulations and artificial intelligence systems.

Dr. Maciej Besta, who is a member of the Scalable Parallel Computing Lab at the Department of Computer Science, has won the 2022 SIGHPC Doctoral Dissertation Award. Congratulations!

When working with neural networks, their training is the single most resource-​demanding and costly process. Two computer scientists from Torsten Hoefler's team have now developed a software that considerably speeds up training. This will be especially relevant for scientific applications of future users of “Alps” at CSCS.

Adrian Perrig and Torsten Hoefler, professors at the Department of Computer Science, have been named IEEE Fellows. The prestigious grade of IEEE Fellow is conferred upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest.

Manuela Fischer, Maciej Besta and Francesco Locatello, three doctoral students from the Department of Computer Science, have won the ETH Medal for their outstanding doctoral theses.

Marcin Copik, doctoral student at the Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory at the Department of Computer Science, was awarded the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship. The program aims to empower the next generation of exceptional computing research talent. 

Congratulations to Torsten Hoefler who is now a member of the Academia Europaea, a pan-​European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences.  

The EXCLAIM research initiative is developing a new generation of high-resolution weather and climate models. D-INFK professors Torsten Hoefler and Andreas Krause, as well as the Swiss Data Science Center, are part of the multidisciplinary project.

A group of scientists is creating a digital twin of our planet to simulate the Earth system in future. Professor Torsten Hoefler from the Institute for High Performance Computing Systems is one of the researchers showing how this can be achieved.

Professor Olga Sorkine-Hornung and Professor Torsten Hoefler have been honoured with an ERC Consolidator Grant for the outstanding work in their respective research field.

The International Open Benchmark Council committee has recognized Professor Torsten Hoefler with the BenchCouncil Rising Star Award for his valuable work in the field of benchmark testing, metrics and optimization.

Prof. Torsten Hoefler, head of the Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory, has been promoted to Full Professor. He has won many awards and is known for his commitment to teaching.

Doctoral student Johannes de Fine Licht and Bachelor student Manuel Burger from the Scalable Parallel Computer Laboratory have won in two categories at the Xilinx Open Hardware Design Contest.

Congratulations to Marcin Copik as well as Grzegorz Kwasniewski and team for winning major student awards at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC19) in Denver, USA.

The ACM Gordon Bell Prize, the most prestigious prize in the area of supercomputing, has been awarded to two research teams from the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Electrical Engineering for developing a simulation that maps heat in transistors.

Two research groups from ETH Zurich have developed a method that can simulate nanoelectronics devices and their properties realistically, quickly, and efficiently. This offers a ray of hope for the industry and data centre operators alike, both of which are struggling with the (over)heating that comes with increasingly small and powerful transistors - and with the high resulting electricity costs for cooling.

On January 24, 2019, Tal Ben-Nun was named one of 2019’s 30 most influential people in technology under the age of 30 (“30 under 30”) by Forbes Israel.

Assistant professor Torsten Hoefler leads the Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory. His research areas include high-​performance computing, performance modeling and parallel programming.

Prof. Marc Snir says that systems with exascale performance are likely to be deployed in 2020-​2023. He is involved in several efforts to define the software research agenda for exascale and start executing on it. In his opinion, exascale may be the end of the road, at least for a system using silicon technology. Prof. Hoefler is asking Prof. Snir about his views on high-​performance computing in the next decade. 

According to the European Research Council, its ERC grants “aim to support up-​and-coming research leaders who are about to establish a proper research team and to start conducting independent research in Europe”. Professor Torsten Hoefler has been awarded one of these prestigious grants. His group addresses a fundamental and increasingly important challenge in computer science: how to efficiently program heterogeneous supercomputers with millions of processors of different architectures.

Computer scientist Torsten Hoefler is the winner of this year’s Latsis Prize awarded by ETH Zurich. His Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory is one of the few laboratories to combine theory and application in the field of high-​performance computing. Although mentors warned him against uniting these two aspects, it is precisely by doing so that he has now achieved his success.

The Scalable Parallel Computing Lab at ETH Zurich will become a member of Intel(R) Parallel Computing Center community. The goal is to tackle the challenges of growing parallelism in high performance computing.

ETH Zurich and EPFL are jointly entering into a new research partnership with Microsoft Research. Over five years, Microsoft Research will provide five million Swiss francs of funding to support IT research projects. Microsoft researchers will also work closely with the scientists at the two universities.

Professor Torsten Hoefler conducts research in the field of high-performance computing on highly parallel systems. He strengthens the Department of Computer Science and ETH Zurich in particular also in the important focus area "scientific computing and simulation". (German)