Piz Daint () is a
mountain of the Swiss
Ortler Alps
The Ortler Alps ( it, Ortles-Cevedale ; german: Ortler-Alpen; rm, Alps da l'Ortler) are a mountain range of the Southern Limestone Alps mountain group in the Central Eastern Alps, in Italy and Switzerland.
Geography
The Ortler Alps are separated ...
, overlooking the
Ofen Pass
Fuorn Pass or Ofen Pass ( Romansh: ''Pass dal Fuorn'', german: Ofenpass, it, Passo del Forno) (el. 2149 m.) is a high alpine mountain pass in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. The name is based on the ovens that were used in ironworks i ...
in the canton of
Graubünden. The closest locality is
Tschierv
Tschierv is a village in the Val Müstair municipality in the district of Inn in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. In 2009 Tschierv merged with Fuldera, Lü, Müstair, Santa Maria Val Müstair and Valchava to form the municipality of Val Mà ...
on the north side.
Name
The name was originally spelled ''Piz d'Aint'', which is
Romansh for "inner peak". The name is relative to the peak to the east called ''
Piz d'Ora'', meaning "outer peak". It corresponds to the
local naming convention.
The name was officially changed to ''Piz Daint'' towards the end of the 20th century.
Other uses
Piz Daint is the namesake of the
CSCS supercomputer
A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second ( FLOPS) instead of million instructions ...
announced in 2013.
See also
*
Piz Dora
References
External links
Piz Daint SupercomputerPiz Daint on Hikr
Mountains of Graubünden
Mountains of the Alps
Ortler Alps
Mountains of Switzerland
Two-thousanders of Switzerland
Val Müstair
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