High-performance computer

• Term: Funded in 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 446539107

About 15 institutes and areas from the different faculties of natural sciences, mathematics, engineering sciences regularly need large amounts of computing power for both theoretical and practice-oriented research.The existing high-performance computer (100 TFlops, 44 TB RAM) is technically at the limit of commercial operation after 5-6 years. The manufacturer is no longer active, so the lack of support and spare parts also becomes a problem.The spectrum of researchers' needs is very broad. The focus of the tasks is on very large and long-running jobs. The working memory of the cluster must therefore be larger (60-70 TB RAM). The computing power provided should also be at least 350TFlops. Appropriate technology must be set up to interrupt large long-distance skiers in favor of competing job queues with many small jobs.

• DFG Programme: Major Research Instrumentation
• Major Instrumentation: Hochleistungsrechner
• Instrumentation Group: 7000 Datenverarbeitungsanlagen, zentrale Rechenanlagen
• Applicant Institution: Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
• Leaders: Dr.-Ing. Stephan Jacob, since 9/2022; Dr. Gregor Zimmermann, until 8/2022