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A team of astrophysicists at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre and Leiden University in the Netherlands have been using a combination of simulation and observational data to better understand our outer solar system. The team’s recent findings suggest that a star may have passed close to our solar system billions of years ago that caused smaller celestial bodies to change their trajectories.

The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) today announced the creation of a new consortium called HammerHAI, which will establish a new AI Factory in Germany. Coordinated by the High-Performance Computing Center of the University of Stuttgart (HLRS) and supported by the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), HammerHAI will address the urgent demand for increased AI capabilities in academic research, start-ups, SME’s, and European industry, as well as in the public sector. The AI Factory will install a secure, AI-optimized supercomputing infrastructure, provide expert support services within the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing, and develop solutions to make it easier for researchers and companies of all sizes to access and use powerful AI…

Munich’s premier universities have a long partnership working on earthquake modelling and simulation at LRZ. Most recently, the team used HPC in tandem with monitoring data to better understand the differences between large and small earthquakes.

The journey towards Europe’s first exascale supercomputer, JUPITER, at Forschungszentrum Jülich continues to progress. With the completion of JETI, the second module of this groundbreaking system, the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) has reached another milestone. By doubling the performance of JUWELS Booster—currently the fastest supercomputer in Germany—the JUPITER Exascale Transition Instrument (JETI) now ranks among the world’s most powerful supercomputers, as confirmed today at the SC24 conference in Atlanta, USA.

The world’s foremost supercomputing conference runs Nov. 17–22. Staffers representing Germany’s premier facilities will play an active role in the conference.

The prize recognizes the center’s strategy for sustainable computing as well as its new construction project, HLRS III.

A team of researchers led by Dr. Claudia Finger of the Fraunhofer Research Institute for Energy Infrastructures and Geothermal Systems (IEG) in Bochum has been developing an innovative computer modeling method that improves how we locate and assess seismic activity in urban areas. Using the JUWELS supercomputer at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), the team successfully designed and tested a network of seismic monitoring stations near a hopeful geothermal site.

The High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart and artificial intelligence startup Seedbox Ventures GmbH announced a long-term cooperation agreement. In addition to creating large language models and conducting research on efficient, scalable training algorithms and infrastructures, the partners will develop a secure and cost-efficient service for the provision, use, and quality management of customized AI models in Germany.

Inaugural event showcases the role of HPC centers in supporting industrial and commercial research applications.

The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) and the National High-Performance Computing Network (NHR) have launched a joint collaboration to support users in accessing computing time for artificial intelligence (AI) applications on high-performance computing (HPC) resources.

Using HLRS supercomputers, University of Stuttgart researchers supported Airbus in the development of the next-generation RACER helicopter.

GCS and center leadership is excited to announce the first GCS industry event, which takes place at the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart on. Join us!

As part of its 32nd large-scale call, the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) is now accepting applications for GCS Large-Scale Projects covering the period from November 1, 2024, to October 31, 2025

SuperMUC-NG joins forces with a 20-qubit quantum system built by IQM Quantum Computers, offering researchers at LRZ a powerful new tool to explore emergent forms of computing.

Although the joint team of students from the University of Hamburg and Otto-Von-Guericke Magdeburg did not take the top places, the team benefited from the experience of participating in the competition and attending ISC24 more broadly.

All three GCS centres were well-represented at the event’s exhibition and staff members actively participated in various events during the conference.

The Jülich Supercomputing Center has one of Europe’s fastest computers and a growing collection of quantum computing devices. Researchers are leveraging the former to pursue technological advancements for the latter.

The Jülich Supercomputing Centre recently installed JEDI, the first module of their upcoming JUPITER exascale system. The system claimed the top spot in the bi-annual Green500 rankings, released this week at ISC24.

For the third straight year, a joint team consisting of students from Hamburg and Magdeburg will compete at the 2024 ISC competition with new students on board.

Representatives of GCS centers will be involved in workshops, presentations, birds of a feather sessions, and more. Visit us at booth K02.

The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) will again be well-represented at this year's International Supercomputing Conference (ISC24), taking place May, 12 – 16, 2024 in Hamburg.

Scientists at the University of Bonn use the JUWELS supercomputer at the Jülich Supercomputing Center to improve models of how ocean tides are changing in a warming climate.

Using one of Europe’s most powerful supercomputers for industry, the technology company will develop AI models and produce virtual prototypes.

Using HLRS’s Hawk supercomputer, scientists at the TU Berlin generate valuable thermodynamic data for chemical engineering research.

Ammonia (NH₃) is an important molecule with many applications. The end product of the famed Haber–Bosch process, it is commonly synthesized to capture nitrogen for fertilizers, and is used for refrigeration, in cleaning products, and in the production of pharmaceuticals. Recently, this modest molecule has also attracted interest as a potential resource for addressing one of today’s most pressing challenges — the need for reliable and abundant renewable fuels.

Researchers at the University of Regensburg are pushing the study of ultrafast electron dynamics to new levels of precision. Thanks to their multi-year effort to improve upon algorithms based on quantum mechanics, the team succeeded in running significantly more accurate simulations of electron orbits across 2D materials.

Solar energy is one of the most promising, widely adopted renewable energy sources, but raising the efficiency of solar cells that convert light into electricity remains a challenge. Scientists have turned to the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart to understand how strategically designing imperfections in the system could lead to more efficient energy conversion.

As artificial intelligence enters new corners of society, academic researchers are hard at work making sure that the applications interacting with our day-to-day routines are ready for whatever life throws at them. A team at the University of Wuppertal uses supercomputing resources at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre to make AI training more efficient, improving problem-solving capabilities for autonomous driving and other complex systems in the process.

The three centres that comprise the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS)—the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), and Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ)—provide scientists and engineers computing power and serves of the highest performance class. Our long-running large-scale call (LSC) allocation program is the primary way for users to access large amounts of computing time on world-class high-performance computing (HPC) resources. This week, GCS opened the call for proposals for the 31st LSC. Scientists can now apply for computing time from January 15th to February 14th 2024, 17:00 o’clock CET.

A transitional system called Hunter will be installed in 2025, with an exascale system called Herder to follow in 2027.

Using HLRS supercomputing resources, scientists led by University of Helsinki physicist Minna Palmroth are exploring phenomena in near-Earth space that could never be investigated before.

World-class computing technologies allow researchers to employ a powerful tool to complement experimental and observation facilities. A multi-institutional group of astrophysicists has turned to the power of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre’s flagship system to simulate in unprecedented detail a large part of our celestial neighborhood, with a specific focus on the so-called Coma cluster.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization are using artificial intelligence methods on the Jülich Supercomputing Centre’s flagship JUWELS system to better understand turbulent fluid flows in unprecedented detail.

The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) and the National High-Performance Computing Network (NHR) have launched a joint collaboration to support users in accessing computing time for artificial intelligence (AI) applications on high-performance computing (HPC) resources.

A research collaboration including a team based at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics has long leveraged world-class supercomputing resources to understand how our universe came to exist in its current form. Building on the successes of the previous “Millennium,” “Illustris,” and “IllustrisTNG” projects, the researchers are simulating dark matter in unprecedented detail in the context of the “MillenniumTNG” project.

A new visualization suite built entirely around LED technology will allow LRZ users to immerse themselves in their simulation in unprecedented detail and adds another important tool to the federated GCS high-performance computing infrastructure.

As the largest annual HPC conference gets set to kick off in the United States, staff members at GCS centres are preparing for an active week of discussions, networking, and presentations.

The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) and the German-French supercomputer consortium ParTec-Eviden supercomputer consortium have signed a contract for the construction of JUPITER. JUPITER will be the first exascale supercomputer in Europe, hosted at Forschungszentrum Jülich, member of GCS, in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia. The system, designed for large-scale simulations and artificial intelligence (AI) applications in science and industry alike, is expected to launch in 2024.

In July Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) opened the 30th call for GCS Large-Scale Projects on the GCS high-performance computing (HPC) systems, Hawk of HLRS, JUWELS of JSC (cluster module and booster module), and SuperMUC-NG of LRZ. Scientists can now apply for computing time until August 14, 2023, at 5:00 PM CET.

The EuroHPC JU signs hosting agreements for six quantum computers.

The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (LRZ), one of the three national supercomputing centers of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) will host and operate Euro-Q-Exa, where it will be integrated into the LRZ’s leadership-class supercomputer, currently SuperMUC-NG.

With the hosting agreement signed between EuroHPC JU and LRZ the European science community reaches another important milestone in advancing quantum computing.

The high-performance data analytics platform terrabyte, which is jointly run by the DLR and the LRZ, is now fully operational.

Computational biologists at Forschungszentrum Jülich are testing their research methods on a powerful new tool—the D-Wave Advantage quantum computer, JUPSI, hosted at the research center. In a set of proof-of-concept simulations of the protein folding process, the team was able to improve sampling accuracy over comparable simulations performed using traditional computational methods.

Scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf are using high-performance computing to identify new materials for novel electronic and catalysis applications.

All three GCS centres were well-represented at the event’s exhibition and staff members actively participated in various events during the conference.

Even if it was not enough for first place, the cooperative student team ELBE gained experience, knowledge, and a deeper view into the world of high-performance computing during this year's competition.

With a combination of computer simulations and experiments, JMU physicists continue to gain knowledge of how materials interact at the subatomic level, laying the groundwork for greater scientific insights and new applications. Using this tandem approach, the researchers identified novel phases of a quantum system.

Representatives of GCS centers will be involved in workshops, presentations, birds of a feather sessions, and more. Visit us at our booth H801

The cooperative team consisting of students from Magdeburg and Hamburg faces new challenges at this year’s ISC competition.

Computational methods originally developed for hydrology research and oil and gas extraction find new applications in understanding electrolyte flow physics in battery cells.

With the help of new observational data of gravitational waves and electromagnetic signatures, University of Potsdam researchers are using supercomputers to understand binary neutron star mergers.

In June, leadership of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking agreed in principle on Europe’s first exascale machine coming to Germany. Now it is official, with the Jülich Supercomputing Centre signing a hosting agreement in Luxemburg this month

Researchers at KAUST used HLRS’s Hawk supercomputer to test a novel method for reducing computational cost and increasing performance in a large-scale global climate simulation.

The mRNA vaccine for COVID-19 was the first of its kind, demonstrating the potential of a new biomedical paradigm. Computational research at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz could open new opportunities for mRNA-based medicines.

Technical University of Munich scientists, working with computational experts at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, perform massive simulations focused on understanding turbulent interactions of gas in high-pressure environments.

Through its Euro-Q-Exa project, the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre submitted a successful bid for one of the largest European investments in quantum computing to date. Supported with funds from the European Union and the Bavarian and German federal governments, the center will build a machine using quantum processors as accelerators.

Researchers at Justus Liebig University Giessen used HLRS supercomputing resources in the discovery of cluster glass, a new class of materials.

The full-day event celebrated Bavaria’s flagship high-performance computing facility and its role in driving innovation over more than half a century.

A project jointly funded by the German federal and state governments and the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking will deliver Europe’s fastest supercomputer and the first to cross the exascale threshold on the continent.

Models developed by researchers at the Goethe University Frankfurt were instrumental in the Event Horizon Telescope consortium’s recent blockbuster findings.

New, hybrid format presents new challenges and opportunities as European undergraduates return to the event in-person after a two-year, virtual-only format.

Researchers at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and their partners at the Technical University of Munich have developed innovative ways to assess risk for two of the Earth’s most destructive disasters.

A 7-year research mission using the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope collected massive amounts of data aimed at illuminating our understanding of the night sky. Throughout the project, researchers have been using the Jülich Supercomputing Centre to analyse, process, and host the data. 

Despite being among the most researched topics on supercomputers, a fundamental understanding of the effects of turbulent motion on fluid flows still eludes scientists. A new approach developed at TU Darmstadt and running at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre aims to change that.

HLRS supported researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) in processing and analyzing a decade's worth of data gathered during an expansive, space-based project.

The first D-Wave Advantage system built outside of North America comes out of an 8-year collaboration between D-Wave Systems and the Jülich Supercomputing Centre.

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are using high-performance computing to model how waterways’ sediment beds change and what those changes mean for pollutants moving downstream.

Separating and filtering complex mixtures is essential for many industrial and medical applications. In fact, industrial separation processes of chemicals account for roughly 10 percent of the world’s energy consumption. Researchers at the University of Göttingen, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, and University of Hamburg are using a combination of simulation and experiments to deepen our understanding of how to make these essential processes more efficient. 

German-Research-Foundation-funded initiative supports research to better understand the movements of microorganisms in an effort to develop new environmental remediation efforts and drug delivery devices, among other applications. 

With the 26th Call for Large-Scale Projects, the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) allocated roughly 1.4 billion computing core hours to challenging national research projects requiring the support of high-performance computing (HPC) technology. In total, the GCS scientific steering granted 15 project access to Germany’s three national HPC centres.

New BMBF-funded project focuses on co-design of next-generation quantum computing technologies and integrating these tools into traditional computing centres.

Using a combination of CT-scans, other available patient data, and simulations, researchers are forging a path toward personalizing medicine and improving outcomes for patients with acute respiratory illnesses. In collaboration with the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, researchers from the Technical University of Munich are developing new computational methods to put insights from more accurate modelling and simulation into the hands of medical professionals.

Today, the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) opened the 26th call for GCS Large-Scale Projects on the GCS high-performance computing (HPC) systems, Hawk of HLRS, JUWELS of JSC (cluster module and booster module), and SuperMUC-NG of LRZ. Scientists can now apply for computing time until August 23, 2021, at 5:00 PM CET.

Scientists have long used supercomputers to better understand how turbulent flows behave under a variety of conditions. Recognizing a need to include the complex but essential concept of “intermittency” in turbulent flows, researchers at CORIA and RWTH Aachen University used Jülich Supercomputing Centre’s infrastructure to run highly detailed simulations.

For the fourth consecutive year, students from Heidelberg University demonstrated their international clout in the field of high-performance computing (HPC) by successfully participating in the Student Cluster Competition (SCC), integrated in the annual International High Performance Computing (ISC21) conference. Team Heidelbears, which had qualified for this year’s 12-team contest, served as only German representative in the international competition. The team delivered a strong showing and came out of the competition securing a solid 7^th place.

The JUWELS Booster module, hosted at Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)—one of the three centres comprising the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS)—remains the most powerful high-performance computing (HPC) system in all of Europe. This was confirmed with the 57th edition of the Top500 list, showcasing the world’s fastest supercomputers, which was released on June 28, 2021 during the ISC High-Performance 2021 Digital conference. Delivering a peak performance of 71 Petaflops, the Atos-built Jülich HPC system is listed 8^th in the latest Top500 rankings.

Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) will again be held in digital format only. The event will take place from June 24 to July 2, and the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) will be there with a dedicated website and a virtual booth.

From touch screens and advanced electronic sensors to better drug delivery devices, graphene has become one of the most promising new materials in recent decades. In an effort to produce cheap, defect-free graphene in larger quantities, researchers from the Technical University of Munich have been using GCS HPC resources to develop more efficient methods for producing graphene at the industrial scale.

The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre welcomes HPC enthusiasts from around the world to learn more about the inner workings of high-performance computing on SuperMUC-NG during its biannual workshop.

Europe’s largest effort to develop a robust federated data infrastructure welcomes Germany’s national high-performance computing organization.

Researchers are working to identify materials and methods to improve water electrolysis, a promising approach that could more efficiently store energy generated from renewable sources. 

Hardware company and research institute plan to focus on optimizing and port applications to Arm-based architectures.

The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) continues its role as sponsor of student teams up to the challenge of competing in international contests aimed at showcasing their high-performance computing (HPC) expertise. At the upcoming Student Cluster Competition (SCC), which is an integral part of the annually held International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), GCS proudly supports “The Heidelbears”. The six students from Heidelberg University are representing Germany in a field of 13 international teams that qualified for this year’s student contest, which will take place from May 24 to June 28, 2021. Other competitors come from China, Singapore, Taiwan, South Africa, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

On May 1, 2021, the latest round of leading-edge large-scale projects began for users of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing’s (GCS) three high-performance computing (HPC) systems—Hawk at the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), JUWELS at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) and SuperMUC-NG at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Garching near Munich. As part of the organization’s 25^th Call for Large-Scale Projects, GCS leadership approved 1.6 billion core hours for research projects for 14 simulation projects that met the strict qualification criteria set by the GCS Steering Committee.

Together with its partners Intel and Lenovo, the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre will expand its current flagship HPC system, SuperMUC-NG

On April 8, 2021, the GCS Board of Directors met to vote on its newest chairman. Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Lippert, Director of the Jülich Supercomputing Centre, was selected for the next two-year term and will lead GCS closer to the exascale threshold.

Physicists have spent 20 years trying to more precisely measure the so-called “magnetic moment” of subatomic particles called muons. Findings published this week call into question long-standing assumptions of particle physics.

Week-long digital event provides opportunities for networking and presentations on the future of European HPC.

On March 17, 2021, Bavaria’s Minister-President, Markus Söder, officially inaugurated the Quantum Integration Centre (QIC) at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in Garching near Munich. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the event was live streamed only.

Dr. Tim Dietrich, Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Potsdam and long-time user of Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) supercomputing resources, will receive the 2021 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, Germany’s premier award honoring early career researchers. He won the award for studying the dynamics of binary neutron stars.

Researchers at the University of Wuppertal and Forschungszentrum Jülich combine theory and experiment to study the role of high-altitude clouds on ozone health. 

A team from TU Dortmund is using high-performance computing to model how lasers could regulate spin dynamics in quantum dots. These small structures could have big implications for improving quantum computers and other advanced electronics. 

A multi-institution team from Australia and Germany simulates turbulence happening on both sides of the so-called “sonic scale,” opening the door for more detailed and realistic galaxy formation simulations.

Germany’s leading HPC centres collectively provide roughly 130 petaflops of performance, and the Jülich Supercomputing Centre’s Booster module for JUWELS leads to a top 3 ranking in the Green500 list.

The 24th Call for Large-Scale Projects welcomes users onto two of the latest GCS HPC systems—the Hawk system at HLRS and the JUWELS Booster module at JSC—in addition to LRZ’s flagship system, SuperMUC-NG. Both new and returning users representing a variety of scientific disciplines will see a significant performance increase from the new systems.

Due to Covid-19 restrictions, SC20, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis Conference, had to be reimagined. This year’s theme is, “SC20 Is Everywhere We Are”. The event, which originally was scheduled to be held at in Atlanta, GA (USA) in the Georgia World Congress Center, will take place as a virtual event running November 9–25. Representatives of GCS centres HLRS, JSC and LRZ will participate with various contributions to the digital event.

The three leading German HPC facilities have different approaches to tackling the issue of sustainable supercomputing, but all centres are dedicated to environmental stewardship.

The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) is repeating its role as sponsor of undergraduate students participating in the Student Cluster Competition at the Supercomputing Conference 2020 (SC20). In an effort to get young and enthusiastic talent interested in the world of high-performance computing (HPC), GCS continues to support German student teams regardless of the fact that the competition will be held as an online-only event. Team deFAUlt, which represents the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), is the only German participant in the group of 19 international teams that qualified for this year’s contest. Competitors come from China, Poland, Singapore, Switzerland, and the USA.

High-performance computing enables bioengineers to predict how laboratory results can be transferred to industrial conditions without loss of performance.

Supercomputing simulations support the design of a research station to improve wind turbine efficiency in hilly and mountainous regions.

Despite having had only modest plans for online training courses in 2020, COVID-19 demanded that GCS centres’ training staffs evolve to ensure the organization delivered on one of its core missions—training scientists to make the best use of HPC resources.

HPC Projects EuroCC and CASTIEL aim at creating a Europe-wide network of national high-performance computing competence centers to enhance HPC skills, promote cooperation, and support the implementation of best practices across Europe.

Today, the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) opened the 24th call for GCS Large-Scale Projects on the three GCS high-performance computing (HPC) systems, Hawk of HLRS, JUWELS of JSC, and SuperMUC-NG of LRZ. Scientists can now apply for computing time until August 17, 2020, at 5:00 PM CET.

For the first time in the history of the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), the largest annual high-performance-computing-focused event on German ground, will be held as an online only event. Called ISC 2020 Digital, the event will take place from June 22–25. The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) and representatives of its member centres HLRS, JSC and LRZ will participate with various contributions to the digital event.

Multinational, multigenerational research team focuses on efficiently solving large systems of linear equations common in countless HPC applications.

Researchers from Goethe University in Frankfurt have been using HPC resources at HLRS and LRZ to support the massive Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project. The results were released in the April edition of Astrophysical Journal Letters.

The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) is pleased to announce that it is repeating its role as co-sponsor of undergraduate students participating in the Student Cluster Competition (SCC) at the annual International Supercomputing Conference (ISC). The teams supported by GCS—the teams representing the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), the Hamburg University, and Heidelberg University—are 3 of the 14 participants qualified for the contest. Other competitors come from China, Indonesia, Lithuania, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the U.K.

High-performance computing provides essential tools for drug discovery and epidemiological modeling in the fight against the global pandemic.

HLRS uses supercomputing and visualization to develop comprehensive models of urban environments, supports city planning in Herrenberg.

With the 23^rd Call for Large-Scale Projects, the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) allocated more than 2 billion computing core hours to challenging national research projects requiring the support of high-performance computing (HPC) technology. In total, the GCS scientific steering committee approved the allocation of 2.3 billion core hours of computing time—a number marking an all-time high—to 20 scientifically outstanding German research activities.

High-performance computing helps scientists at Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf and Forschungszentrum Jülich better understand enzymes that are more resistant to detergents and solvents.

University of Duisburg-Essen researchers use HPC to model fuel jet flames in unprecedented detail, verifying experiments done by the German Aerospace Agency. 

Scientists pursuing research aimed at prevention, containment, remediation, or cures related to the coronavirus pandemic will be given expedited access to HPC resources at the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing.

TUM researchers partner with LRZ HPC experts to improve access to and organization of protein databases. 

As the first major supercomputing center in all of Europe, GCS member High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) has received certification under the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS). The accomplishment is the culmination of a multiyear effort to create and implement a comprehensive sustainability concept that guides HLRS's operation and will help shape its future growth.

TU Kaiserslautern researchers use molecular dynamics simulations to study solid-fluid interactions during scratching processes. 

HLRS, JSC, and LRZ staff collaborate to transfer files efficiently around the world in conjunction with the annual SC Asia conference.

Arrival of a new 26-petaflop high-performance computing system marks the beginning of a new era for advanced computational research in Stuttgart.

The 23rd call for GCS Large-Scale Projects is open for applications from German universities and publicly funded German research institutions – and it comes with revised criteria regarding the definition of “large-scale” projects. As of immediately, simulation projects fall into the category “large-scale” only if they require at least 100 million core-hours of computing time on Hawk of HLRS, or 15 Mcore-h on JUWELS of JSC, or 45 Mcore-h on SuperMUC-NG of LRZ over a period of 12 months. These values correspond to 2% of the systems’ annual production in terms of estimated availability. Scientists can apply for computing time on these three GCS HPC systems until February 10, 2020, 17:00hrs.

Helmut-Schmidt University scientists combine simulation with experimental investigations to understand complex fluid-structure interactions to design safer buildings.

Stuttgart-based Gauss centre certified under the ISO 14001 norm and ISO 50001 framework.

The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing proudly announces that it will partner with International Supercomputing Conference (ISC20) organizers to once again offer awards, which will take place in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) June 21-25, 2020. The GCS Award will honor the most outstanding research paper submitted to the ISC research paper sessions.

Bavaria-based GCS centre comes home from the annual Supercomputing Conference with award for the second year in a row.

Long-time GCS collaborator and user Prof. Dr. Ulrich Rüde discusses his views on the future of supercomputing.

Partnership between JSC, Atos, ParTec, und NVIDIA set to increase computing performance from 12 to 70 petaflops.

Research collaboration between the Australian National University, Intel, and LRZ nominated for Best Scientific Visualization & Data Analytics Showcase award at SC19.

With the 22^nd GCS Large-Scale Call, the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) scientific steering committee approved the allocation of 703 million core hours of computing time to eleven scientifically outstanding German research projects relying on the support of petascale-performance high-performance computing (HPC) technology.

Researchers from the University of Stuttgart use a machine learning algorithm and supercomputing to improve energy efficiency. The results recently appeared in the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy. 

At this year’s Supercomputing conference (SC19), the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) will once again sponsor some of Germany’s brightest collegiate minds, supporting a national student team participating in the prestigious Student Cluster Competition (SCC) which runs Nov. 18–20 at SC19 in Denver, Colorado. Team “deFAUlt”, consisting of six undergraduate students representing the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), is one of four European teams entering the student competition.

University of Freiburg researchers use JSC supercomputing resources to better understand structural material design. The team’s work was published in MRS Communications. 

Multi-year effort culminates with LRZ receiving ISO/IEC 20000 and ISO/IEC 27001 certifications.

Combining earthquake and tsunami computer models of the 2018 tsunami in Palu, researchers identified underlying causes of the deadly tsunami.

From sponsoring students and awards, to speaking and moderating discussions, to hosting guests at its “HPC Happy Hour,” GCS and centres’ staffs were heavily involved in this year’s International Supercomputing Conference.

Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) member centre, the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), will play a major role in the newly announced partnership between Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) and Google that aims at accelerating research in the field of quantum computing.

The 22nd call for GCS Large-Scale Projects on the three GCS HPC systems Hazel Hen of HLRS, SuperMUC-NG of LRZ, and JUWELS of JSC has been opened. Scientists can now apply for computing time until August 5, 2019, 17:00hrs

On May 27, representatives from the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) and the German Aerospace Agency (DLR) signed an agreement to partner on the Terra_Byte project.

Meet GCS at ISC19 in Frankfurt am Main (June 16-20, 2019) at booth #B-1310.

Demand for computing time for large-scale simulation projects requiring access to leading-edge high-performance computing (HPC) technologies continues on an unabated high in Germany. With the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing’s (GCS’s) 21st Large-Scale Call, the GCS scientific steering committee approved the allocation of 1.171 billion core hours of computing time to 13 outstanding national research projects.

Computational astrophysicists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich use HPC to recreate the universe’s origins. Their work recently informed a new planetarium exhibition. 

PRACEdays2019 takes place May 13-17, 2019 in Poznan, Poland. Attendees are encouraged to submit applications for posters and other contributions by March 11.

Canadian-German partnership simulates the climate in Quebec and Bavaria over 150 years, primarily focusing on extreme flooding events. The team’s results were recently published in Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.

Researchers employ HPC to help bring spray simulations to a commercial level. The team’s work was featured on the cover of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 

HPC helps researchers understand experiments for observing real-time motion of lithium atoms in bi-layer graphene, paving the way for designing new materials for batteries and other electronics.

The 21st call for GCS Large-Scale Projects has been opened. Scientists can now apply for computing time on the three GCS HPC systems Hazel Hen of HLRS, SuperMUC-NG of LRZ, and JUWELS of JSC until February 11, 2019, 17:00hrs

The record-breaking galaxy formation simulation, Illustris, which ran on the GCS HPC systems SuperMUC of LRZ and Hazel Hen of HLRS, can now adorn letters across the globe on a newly released postage stamp. The research projects of a multi-institution team were led by researchers at the Heidelberg Institute of Theoretical Studies (HITS) who are long-time users of GCS HPC ressources.

German scientists have succeeded in observing electron motion in real time by using laser pulses and supercomputing simulations. In their pursuit to better understand electrons’ behaviour during a chemical reaction, the researchers of the University of Paderborn and the Fritz Haber Institute Berlin have leveraged supercomputing resources at the HLRS to model this phenomenon. Their findings were recently published in Science.

GCS-sponsored student team deFAUlt, representing the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, wins “silver” and “bronze” awards at SC18 in coveted benchmark challenges, taking fifth place overall. The Student Cluster Competition (SCC) is part of the annual Supercomputing Conference, which this year was held in Dallas, Texas (USA).

The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing will partner with ISC19 organizers to once again offer awards at the upcoming International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), which will take place in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) in June of 2019. The GCS Award will honor the most outstanding research paper submitted to the ISC research paper sessions.

The awards, presented this year at the Supercomputing Conference (SC18) in Dallas, Texas, recognize outstanding technical and scientific achievements at high-performance computing (HPC) centres. LRZ has been a driving force in energy efficient HPC, ensuring that each successive supercomputing would be designed with energy efficiency and reuse in mind.

The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre’s (LRZ’s) newest supercomputer, SuperMUC-NG, brought GCS back into the biannual list’s top 10 fastest supercomputers in the world. The machine registered 19.46 petaflops in the Linpack benchmark, ranking it in 8^th place.

The High-Performance Computing Center of the University of Stuttgart (HLRS) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced a joint collaboration to build a next-generation supercomputer. The new HPC system Hawk will be 3.5 times faster than HLRS’ current flagship HPC system Hazel Hen.

GCS users from Germany’s leading academic institutions are now able to move data to and from GCS facilities significantly faster—HLRS, JSC, and LRZ will be able to push Germany’s high-speed X-WiN network to its limits. Each GCS centre is connected by 2x100 gigabit-per-second data transfer speed, which is the fastest individual connection to X-WiN.

SC18, the leading international exhibition and conference on high-performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis, will take place in Dallas, Texas, USA, November 11-16, 2018. HLRS (High Performance Computing Center, Stuttgart), JSC (Jülich Supercomputing Centre), and LRZ (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Garching/Munich) will again participate in the conference.

The start-up phase of HPC system SuperMUC-NG was officially launched at LRZ on Monday, September 24, 2018. The transition from LRZ’s current SuperMUC machines (Phase I and II) to the third itineration of the SuperMUC series is scheduled to be completed in 2019.

Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) celebrates the installation of a new modular HPC system, the first modular architecture in the world going into operation.

Prof. Dr. Arndt Bode, former Chairman of the Executive Board of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), has been awarded the Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany). The honor is the highest national award for public service in the country.

HLRS high-performance computing resources and data-driven machine learning help researchers of the Institute of Nuclear Technology and Energy Systems (IKE) and the Institute of Aerospace Thermodynamics (ITLR) at the University of Stuttgart model how coal, nuclear, and geothermal power plants could be retrofitted for cleaner, safer, and more efficient and flexible operation.

Three GCS sponsored German student teams competed in the Student Cluster Competition of ISC18, leading to awards and leadership roles in education workshops. The teams of bachelor students represented the Universität Hamburg, the Heidelberg University, and the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU).

Results of computationally intensive simulations, aimed at studying processes in the Earth’s mantle, can now be admired by the visitors of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City. The newly added permanent exhibit was made possible thanks to a research project led by Professor Hans-Peter Bunge of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (LMU) run on HPC system SuperMUC of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ).

Scientists can apply for computing time on the three GCS HPC Systems until August 13, 2018, at 17:00hrs.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Lippert, member of the GCS board and Director of the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), was elected as Chair of the PRACE Council during the group’s 30th meeting, He begins a two-year term at the helm of the trans-European supercomputing organization.

Researchers from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg were awarded the 2018 Gauss Award during the opening session of ISC18 in Frankfurt, Germany. The award-winning research paper explores methods to more accurately model computer chip energy consumption.

GCS significantly increased its support of the Student Cluster Competition (SCC), the largest HPC contest for students, which is part of the annual supercomputing conferences. At ISC18, GCS supports three German university teams (out of 12 total teams) competing.

GCS has sponsored SCC teams for four consecutive years in order to encourage students to take a deeper interest in HPC and develop more HPC skills in Germany. This is the first time GCS has helped three German teams participate in the event.

The 17 ambitious research teams who recieved computing hours represent a wide range of scientific disciplines, including astrophysics, atomic and nuclear physics, biology, condensed matter physics, elementary particle physics, meteorology, and scientific engineering, among others.

Two cooling technology solutions implanted at the Garching-based GCS centre recently took home first and second prize respectively in the 2018 German Data Centre Awards (Deutscher Rechenzentrumspreis).

Dr. Mie Andersen, from Technische Universität München (TUM), who is a Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) user, recently won the Gerhard Ertl Young Investigator Award 2018.

A multi-institutional team comprised of researchers from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, the Max-Planck Institutes for Astrophysics and for Astronomy, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and the Center for Computational Astrophysics in New York gives the cosmology community a world-class simulation to study how the universe formed.

With the ongoing cyberattacks against Germany's government institutions in mind, ARD-alpha, a Germany public TV station offering educational programming, broadcasted a telecast dedicated to the topic "Internet Security".

Theoretical physicists and experimentalists collaborate to identify dopants capable of enabling new designs of semiconducting materials.

GCS mourns the loss of Professor Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Wagner, founding member of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) and former Chairman of the GCS Scientific Steering Committee. Professor Wagner was a tireless advocate of high-performance computing (HPC) and its value to scientific engineering. He served as head of the Institute of Aerodynamics and Gas Dynamics of the University of Stuttgart from 1991 until 2004. 

Scientists can apply for computing time on the three GCS HPC Systems installed at the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), and the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre at Garching near Munich (LRZ), until February 23, 2018.

Multi-disciplinary research team uses theory and experiment on its journey to understand material and geologic processes in high pressure and temperature conditions.

The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) announced that a contract with Intel and Lenovo was signed to build SuperMUC-NG, the next generation of the centre’s leading-edge supercomputers. SuperMUC-NG will be capable of 26.7 petaflops at its theoretical peak.

A two-day workshop at the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) brought together infrastructure experts from German supercomputing centers to discuss strategies for building more sustainable systems.

The GCS-sponsored team TUMany segFAUlts recently returned from this year's student cluster competition (SCC) at SC17 in Boulder, Colorado. Unforeseen technical difficulties nearly prevented the six-student team from competing, but they didn't give up so easily.

The three GCS centres HLRS (High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart), JSC (Jülich Supercomputing Centre) and LRZ (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Garching near Munich) are working to implement better network tools and cooperation.

GCS approved 23 large-scale projects during the 18th call for large-scale proposals. GCS awards large-scale allocations to researchers focused on solving the world’s most pressing problems as they relate to a wide range of disciplines.

A multidisciplinary team recreated the 2004 Sumatra earthquake and tsunami event in the largest, longest multiphysics earthquake simulation to date. The team was awarded Best Paper at the world’s premier supercomputing conference, SC17.

Researchers at LMU and TUM in Munich are up for best paper at SC17 after simulating one of the largest, most violent earthquakes in history.

The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) is pleased to announce that it is continuing to serve as a co-sponsor of undergraduate students participating in the Student Cluster Competition (SCC) at the Supercomputing Conference 2017 (SC17) in Denver, Colorado/USA (Nov. 12-17, 2017).

The three GCS centres HLRS, JSC, and LRZ are participating in this year's Supercomputing Conference (SC17) from November 12 -17, in Denver, Colorado (USA).

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich are using satellite imagery and supercomputing to predict city buildings’ risks for structural degradation and damage.

A team of researchers led by Prof. Dr. Britta Nestler at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences works on the frontline of advanced material design, using computation to model new material properties.

The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing's 10 years at the leading edge was highlighted through awards and prominent roles at the ISC High Performance conference, held June 18–22 in Frankfurt, Germany.

The three GCS HPC systems deliver in sum a peak performance of currently more than 20 Petaflops. Scientists can apply for computing time on the three GCS HPC Systems until August 14, 2017, at 17:00hrs.

For this edition, GCS published both a German and an English version of its image brochure, which highlights the ways the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing is contributing to HPC research in Germany and across Europe.

The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing has been a unified force for ten years, combining the strength of Germany's three HPC centers to support leading edge computing research. A recent feature was published that highlights the past, present and future of GCS.

GCS-sponsored team FAU Boyzz, six students of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany (FAU), walked away from the Student Cluster Competition (SCC) at ISC17 with the trophy for the coveted SCC High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark challenge.

The German federal ministry praised GCS's accomplishments and announced newly increased support for supercomputing. The primary focus will be on improving power, efficiency, and training as computing moves toward exascale.

GCS has secured funding for another decade of excellence and innovation in high-performance computing from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the science ministries of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, and North Rhein-Westphalia.

With the help of HLRS's Hazel Hen supercomputer, an RWTH Aachen University team reaches a new milestone in modeling turbulence, paving the road to better power plant modeling and design in the future.

Team “FAUboyzz” will be representing the Friedrich-Alexander Universät Erlangen Nürnberg at ISC17. The multi-disciplinary team consists of six students studying computational engineering, computer science and medical engineering at FAU.

The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing approved 30 large-scale projects during the 17^th call for large-scale proposals, set to run from May 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018. Combined, these projects received 2.1 billion core hours, marking the highest total ever delivered by the three GCS centres.

Scientists at the Paderborn University and the University of Duisburg–Essen recently published a paper in Nature about phase transitions. High performance computing resources at the HLRS enabled the investigators to explain the physics behind their unexpected discovery.

The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing is pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Michael M. Resch is the new chairman of the GCS Board of Directors. Resch has served as director of the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) for more than a decade, and is also director of the Institute for High-Performance Computing (IHR) at the University of Stuttgart.

Effective April 1, 2017, Prof. Dr. Dieter Kranzlmüller is the new Chairman of the Board of Directors at GCS member Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Garching. Kranzlmüller succeeds Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Arndt Bode, who has been Chairman of the Board since October 1, 2008.

Prof. Dr. Johanna Wanka, Federal Minister for Education and Research, was one of many who visited HLRS's booth at this year's CeBIT to learn more about AR technology and the benefits of high-performance computing.

By extending its partnership as a PRACE 2 hosting member, GCS will again take a leading role in HPC in Europe and will significantly contribute to boost scientific and industrial advancement by offering principal investigators access to GCS's world-class HPC infrastructure to be used for approved large-scale research activities.

An international team of scientists collected soil samples, including the microbes living in them, in lowland rainforests of Costa Rica, Panama, and Ecuador. The DNA was extracted and sequenced, and then more than 130 million sequences were analyzed using the SuperMUC supercomputer.

The new training center of the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) opened on March 7. The 2,003 sqm complex will now provide excellent facilities for the various types of HPC and IT trainings offered by HLRS.

Meet the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) at CeBIT 2017 in Hannover (March 20-24). Representatives of the HRLS visualization department will demonstrate how HPC plays an essential role in vehicle development and safety research.

Scientists can apply for computing time on the three GCS HPC Systems until February 20, 2017, 17:00hrs. 

GCS member Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) has scheduled another Big Blue Gene Week January 25 to February 1, 2017. The BlueGene/Q supercomputer JUQUEEN at JSC will be dedicated exclusively to large-scale massively parallel computations.

The workshop provides selected application teams the opportunity to scale their codes up to 1.8 million hardware threads via exclusive access to the entire Blue Gene/Q at JSC.

The award is in recognition of Professor Nestler's internationally acknowledged research in computer based materials sciences and her efforts in the development of new material models using multiscale and multiphysical approaches which leverage highly flexible and complex simulation environments.

SC16, the world’s largest supercomputing conference, took place in Salt Lake City, USA. College undergraduates from across the globe attended, vying for victory in the Student Cluster Competition. The only European participants were two teams from Germany.

The new supercomputing world record was set by scaling ANSYS Fluent to more than 170,000 computer cores on the GCS high performance computing (HPC) system Hazel Hen hosted at HLRS.

With the conclusion of the 16th Large-Scale Call, GCS approved the allocation of in sum 1,068 million core hours of computing time to 17 scientifically outstanding German research activities. Projects come from the fields of Astrophysics, Chemistry, Earth and Environment, Elementary Particle Physics, Life Sciences, Materials Sciences, and Scientific Engineering.

Two German undergraduate teams are in the news for their inclusion in the 2016 Student Cluster Competition, a 48-hour challenge held on the SC16 showground. The two teams will be the only teams from Europe competing this year.

An international team of researchers achieved a major break-through in the ongoing quest to profile dark matter. The spectacular findings were given additional honour by the Editorial Board of NATURE Magazine, where they were published on November 2.

The three member centres of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing will present their research activities in the field of High Performance Computing (HPC) in their respective booths at this year's Supercomputing Conference (SC16), held Nov. 13-18 in Salt Lake City, USA.

GCS will provide financial support for two German teams that were accepted for the multi-disciplinary HPC challenge at SC16 in Salt Lake City, Utah (USA): team PhiClub of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and team segFAUlt representing the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU).

Representatives from the three Gauss Centres attended the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) from June 19-23 in Frankfurt. Activities at ISC16 included exhibitions, workshops, awards and much more.

A team of researchers was able to predict whether a specific standard drug for the treatment of breast cancer will help an individual patient or not, and they achieved it with help of SuperMUC at Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), with all its resources at their disposal to generate and plough through a vast amount of data.

The European Physical Society (EPS) recognizes Meißner’s developments and applications of effective field theories in hadron and nuclear physics.

GCS will act as official sponsor of this event, the Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry (STC2016), which will take place at the campus of the Ruhr Universität Bochum (RUB) from September 26 - 29, 2016.

With the 15^th GCS Large-Scale Call, the scientific steering committee of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) approved the allocation of 1,650 million core hours of computing time to 21 scientifically outstanding national research projects. Both numbers mark all-time highs in the history of GCS.

Prof. Dr. Dietmar Kröner and Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wellein are the new Chairman and Vice-Chairman respectively of the GCS Steering Committee, a panel overseeing the assignment of computing time on the GCS HPC systems.

The prime goal of these workshops, for which more than 20 application teams had qualified, was to improve the computational efficiency of applications by expanding their parallel scalability across the hundreds of thousands of compute cores of the GCS supercomputers JUQUEEN and SuperMUC.

An international team of researchers presents a new method in the current issue of Nature Magazine that uses supercomputers to produce detailed simulations of how heavy metals form inside stars.