Sponsors
PASC18 would like to thank its partners and sponsors for their support.
Industry Sponsors
Platinum Sponsorship
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), United States
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is an industry leading technology company, enabling customers to go further, faster. With the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio, spanning the cloud to the data centre to workplace applications, our technology and services help customers around the world make IT more efficient, more productive and more secure.
HPE’s innovative, purpose-built HPC systems and technologies are enabling innovation at all levels and across the globe. The portfolio’s key differentiators include a converged infrastructure purpose-built to scale; striking optimization and efficiency; and straightforward management and deployment.
Gold sponsorship
IBM, Switzerland
IBM's European labs are located in Zurich, Switzerland and Dublin, Ireland, Germany and England. Last year for the 25th year in a row IBM was the U.S. patent leader with 9,043 patents. IBM Research is dedicated not only to fundamental research, but also to exploring and creating innovative industry and customer-oriented solutions.
IBM's global labs are involved in hundreds of joint projects with universities particularly throughout Europe, in research programs established by the European Union and the Swiss government, and in cooperation agreements with research institutes of industrial partners.
Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland
The Paul Scherrer Institute PSI is the largest research institute for natural and engineering sciences in Switzerland, conducting cutting-edge research in three main fields: Matter and Material; Energy and the Environment; and Human Health. PSI develops, builds and operates complex large research facilities. Every year, more than 2500 scientists from Switzerland and around the world come to PSI to use our unique facilities to carry out experiments that are not possible anywhere else.
PSI is committed to the training of future generations, with about one quarter of its staff being apprentices, post-graduates or post-docs. For school pupils it offers the school laboratory, iLab.
Silver sponsorship
Cray Computer GmbH, Switzerland
DataDirect Networks (DDN), United States
NCCR-MARVEL, Switzerland
Microsoft Switzerland Ltd, Switzerland
Novartis International AG, Switzerland
NVIDIA GmbH, Germany
Institutional partners
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), USA
Basel Stadt, Switzerland
Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) of ETH Zurich, Switzerland
ETH Board, Switzerland
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC), Switzerland
ACM Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing, USA
Media partners
The Swiss HPC Service Provider Community (hpc-ch), Switzerland
insideHPC Media, USA
Event partners
Computing Patterns for High Performance Multiscale Computing (ComPat), European collaboration
ISC High Performance 2018, Germany