Brutus is the central high-performance cluster of ETH Zurich. It was introduced to the public in May 2008. A new computing cluster called EULER has been announced and opened to the public in May 2014.[1]
Distributed-memory computations (MPI using MVAPICH2)
Shared-memory, multithreaded applications (OpenMP) up to 1024 GB of memory and/or 48 threads
Third-party (commercial) applications
Trivia
Brutus was ranked the 88th fastest computer in the world in November 2009 (top500.org). Since then, its peak performance has increased three-fold (from 65 to 200 TF).
It was then the most energy efficient general purpose supercomputer in the world (Heise.de)
It successor, EULER, was ranked the 255th fastest computer in the world in June 2014 [2]
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