Team from Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory wins ACM Gordon Bell Prize
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.
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.