Arctur-1 brings award winning performance to Pipistrel

date: 30.06.2014

category: News

Artur's partner Pipistrel recieved the IDC Innovation excellence award in the field of High Performance Computing

The IDC is a worldwide analyst organization providing business intelligence information about the leading edge of IT technologies. At the ISC’14 Conference in Leipzig they proclaimed the winners of The Innovation excellence award for achievement in the field of High Performance Computing (HPC). Amongst the prestigious line-up of companies from the likes of Rolls Royce, Westinghouse and Caterpillar also Pipistrel was one of the awarded companies. Pipistrel got their award for implementing HPC technologies in the record time development of the Taurus G4 aircraft. Pipistrel’s R&D department headed by dr. Gregor Veble is using Arctur’s HPC infrastructure to speed up the development of their aircrafts and for rapid prototyping of different components. The two companies are also cooperation on various projects. One of the projects is also Fortissimo which is part of the ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs (I4MS) initiative.

photo: Philip Loeper

The objective of the award is to showcase success stories of HPC usage in industry and science and to stimulate manufacturers, especially small and medium enterprises to understand the benefits that HPC brings and to ease the decision to start using HPC simulations.

The international Supercomputing Conference ISC’14 was held form 23 – 26 June in Leipzig and is the main event for HPC Computing in Europe. The famous TOP500 List is also announced presenting the most powerful computing machines in the world. There is little change in this year’s top of the chart. The Chinese Tianhe2 machine built by Inspur is still in the lead. The Swiss Piz Daint on the other hand is the fastest machine in Europe with a theoretical computing speed of 7,8 Peta Flop.

photo: Philip Loeper