PRESS RELEASES

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.