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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…

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.