Our Team

Nedjo Babic

Computers are cool, but supercomputers are cooler!

Hannes Eberhard

With great power comes great responsibility.

Benedikt Falk

I am captivated by how far HPC will unleash the power of computational intelligence.

Marcel Ferrari

SPQR - So many Problems running QuantumespResso

Sophia Herrmann

hpc computer go brrr

Faveo Hörold

Without the wind, the grass does not move. Without software hardware is useless.

Samuel Karško

HPC: Because waiting for a regular computer is like watching paint dry.

Piotr Luczynski

HPC is really fascinating

Julianne Orel

Have you tried restarting the PC?

Hannah Osswald

Here to have a good time.

Alexander Pietak

We put man on the moon but still can't compile a program without getting an error.

Niklas Römer

I needed a new computer, so I tried HPC

Leonard Schmidt

What fascinates me most about HPC is the deep connection between all scientific fields and the potential it unlocks.

Alexander Sotoudeh

I joined RACKlette because ETH didn't stress me enough.

You Wu

HPC accelerates

Yi Zhu

Truth hides in computation.

Manuel Burger

I love the idea of performance and making things go fast.

Manuel was a founding member of the team, taking part at ISC19, SC19, and ISC20.

The team could always rely on his expert skills - there is no compiler error Manuel could not debug. His relentless research into the best matrix configuration helped RACKlette win the "Highest LinPACK" award at ISC19.

He also designed the original RACKlette logo.

Jinfan Chen

Here is our Asian team member with an affinity for complex math problems.

Jinfan has been part of the team in the preparations for SC19 and during the competition at ISC20.

Thore Goebel

Running systems and marathons

Thore was a founding member of the the team and took part in the competitions at ISC19 Frankfurt and SC19 Denver. Amongst many other things the team was always able to rely on his great scripting skills.

André Graubner

I enjoy tackling seemingly simple problems that even the largest computers still struggle with.

André was a founding member of the team, and competed at ISC19. He has been essential to the extensive optimisations on the machine learning models at ISC19, which was key to the team securing 3rd place overall.

Emir Isman

It is always fascinating to see the impact of computing in every field of our lives.

Emir has competed with RACKlette at SC19, ISC20 and SC20. His profound knowledge and experience with Linux and cloud systems have always been of great value to the team.

Simon Jacob

Being efficient is just being lazy, but in a clever way.

Simon has been part of the team during the competitions at SC19, ISC20 and SC20 and has contributed with his knowledge about Linux systems.

Valeria Jannelli

Being a passionate violinist, I am particularly interested in how HPC can revolutionize music.

Valeria was a founding member of the team. She has been part of the team during the competitions at ISC19 in Frankfurt, Germany and SC19 in Denver, Colorado US.

Lukas Kapp-Schwoerer

I am passionate about finding efficient solutions to complex computational problems

Lukas was a founding member of the team, and competed at ISC19. Without him, RACKlette would not exist today. He has been essential to the extensive optimisations on the machine learning models at ISC19, which was key to the team securing 3rd place overall.

Ege Karaismailoglu

I’m fascinated by concepts and solutions built on fundamental relations between seemingly unrelated fields.

Ege was a founding member of the team. He has been essential to the extensive optimisations on the machine learning models for ISC19 in Frankfurt, which has been a key to the team's success there.

Jan Kleine

I’m building an 8-Bit computer on breadboards.

Jan was a founding member of the team, taking part at ISC19, SC19, ISC20, and SC20.

With his deep knowledge of our hardware and software setup he always kept a clear head during stressful competition situations. He was indispensable at tutoring new team members and bringing them up to speed working with the cluster.

Rahul Steiger

I am keen to tackle real-world problems using HPC

Antonia Unger

Imagine going from lifting 8kg at the gym to 512kg... that's how I feel about working with Emmi!

Simon Wachter

I like to apply concepts from lectures to real-world applications.

Simon has been a member of the team during the virtual competition at SC20.

Wendelin Wemhöner

When Moore's law is dying, you simply have to add more nodes.

Wendelin was a team member in 2022 and attended SC22.