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NANOTECHNOLOGY CENTEREine Partnerschaft in Nanotechnologie von IBM Research und ETH Zrich

THE WORLD IS OUR LAB

IBM Research Zurich is one of 12 IBM Research la-boratories around the globe. It was established in 1956and is home to world-class scientists representingmore than 45 nationalities. Cutting-edge research andoutstanding scientific achievementsmost notablytwo Nobel Prizesare associated with this lab.

As the largest European branch of IBM Research, its

missionin addition to pursuing innovative researchfor tomorrows information technologyis to cultivateclose relationships with academic and industrial part-ners. IBM Research Zurich strives to be one of thepremier places to work for top researchers, to promotewomen in IT and science, and to help drive Europesinnovation agenda.

In 2011, a new facility for collaborative nano-scaleresearch was opened on the IBM campus in Zurich.The Binnig and Rohrer Nanotechnology Center ispart of a strategic partnership in nanosciences withETH Zurich, one of the worlds foremost science andengineering universities.

WHERE BUSINESS MEETS THE FUTURE ANDRESEARCH MEETS THE MARKET

The Client Center at IBM Research Zurich is aunique place in Europe to gain insights from IBMresearchers, industry and trend experts in order totackle todays and tomorrows challenges.

This think-tank is part of the European IBM Client

Center network. It provides companies, academiaand governments with the opportunity to find out howIBMs R&D assets, trend research, advanced tech-nologies and solutions could enhance their success.It is also the place where customers can get first-handexperience of innovative prototype solutions.

The world is our lab

IBM RESEARCH - ZURICH

Above: The campus of IBM Research - Zurich

Right: The Binnig and Rohrer Nanotechnology Center

The client centers conference rooms are equipped with

state-of-the-art audiovisual and teleconferencing facilities

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CURRENT PROJECTS

SuperMUC: a unique hot-water-cooled supercom-puter located at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre inMunich, Germany. SuperMUC is one Europes fast-est supercomputer designed to help researchers andindustrial institutions investigate some of the worldsmost daunting scientific challenges. SuperMUC con-sumes 40% less energy than a comparable air-cooled

machine, saving $1.25 million in energy costs per year.

Project DOME: ASTRON, The Netherlands Institutefor Radio Astronomy, and IBM are engaged in a five-year collaboration to research extremely fast, but low-power exascale computer systems targeted for theinternational Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The SKA isan international consortium to build the worlds largestand most sensitive radio telescope. Scientists estimatethat the processing power required to operate thetelescope will be equal to several millions of todays

fastest computers. Battery 500: a sustainable mobility project to devel-op lithium-air battery technology capable of poweringa family-sized electric car for approximately 500 miles(800 km) on a single charge.

Secure Enterprise Desktop: an innovative servicethat enables corporate users to securely access thecontents of their entire hard disk, including operatingsystem, applications and company data, from any-where in as little as two minutes.

Phase Change Memory: For the first time, sci-entists at IBM Research have demonstrated thata relatively new memory technology, known asphase-change memory, can reliably store multipledata bits per cell over extended periods of time.This significant improvement advances the develop-ment of low-cost, faster and more durable memoryapplications for consumer devices, including mobilephones and cloud storage, as well as high-perfor-

mance applications, such as enterprise data storage.

IBM RESEARCH - ZURICH AT A GLANCE

Founded: 1956

Director: Dr. Matthias Kaiserswerth

Nationalities: 45

Collaborations: More than 90

Nobel Laureates: 4

1986: Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention ofthe scanning tunneling microscope by HeinrichRohrer and Gerd K. Binnig

1987: Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery ofhigh-temperature superconductivity by K. AlexMller and J. Georg Bednorz

RESEARCH AREAS

Computer Science: Security and Privacy, Business

Integration Technologies, Systems Management Systems: Server Technology, Accelerator

Technology, I/O Link Technologies, SystemSoftware, Energy Management

Storage: Tape Technologies, Heads & Actuators,Storage Systems, Memory and ProbeTechnologies, Phase Change Memory

Math & Computational Science: BusinessOptimization, High Performance Computing,Information Analytics

Science & Technology: Semiconductors, Systems,Beyond the Transistor, Nanotechnology

IBM RESEARCH WORLDWIDE

Founded: 1945

Employees: 3,000

Research Labs: 12 on six continents

Budget: $6.3 billion (2012)

SuperMUC features a hot-water-cooling technology

invented at IBM Research - Zurich, Image credit: LRZ

More information:

www.zurich.ibm.com/nanocenter

For more information:

www.zurich.ibm.com