A new supercomputer has appeared in Switzerland

The machine, named "Alpes", was officially presented by Minister of Economy Guy Parmelin on September 14, 2024 at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center in Lugano, Canton of Ticino (Swiss National Supercomputing Center CSCS ).

SWI writes about this .

It is one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. It will be used for weather forecasting by the Swiss Hydrometeorological Center Meteo Schweiz (Bundesamt für Meteorologie und Klimatologie). The new supercomputer will also perform calculations for climatology and artificial intelligence (AI) needs.

It would take a normal laptop 40,000 years to perform the calculations that Alps can do in a day. Michele De Lorenzi, deputy director and head of the CSCS communications department, told the Keystone-SDA news agency about this.

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In the June 2024 world ranking of five hundred supercomputers, this computer took sixth place, but at that time it had not yet been put into operation and put into operation, so in the future it may be even higher in this ranking.

However, as Michele De Lorenzi emphasizes, this rating is absolutely not important. “It was important for us that the computer could effectively solve the tasks set before science”, – he remarked. To carry out calculations during normal operation of the “Alpa” computer; requires about 5.2 megawatts of energy, that is, it is about five times more powerful than the Jet d'Eau fountain in Geneva.

The computer is housed in 33 cabinets covering an area of ​​116 square meters. meters Compared to its predecessor, the Piz Daint supercomputer, it is 20 times more powerful. “One cabinet of the Alps supercomputer corresponds to almost the entire performance of the Piz Daint machine”, – says Michele De Lorenzi. At the same time, although the predecessor computer had 20 times less computing power, it consumed only three to four times less electricity.