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