High Performance Computing Center, Stuttgart Explained

The High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) in Stuttgart, Germany, is a research institute and a supercomputer center.^[1] HLRS has currently a flagship installation of a HPE Apollo 9000 system called Hawk ^[2] 26 PFLOPS peak performance replacing the Cray XC40 system called Hazel Hen, providing ~7,4 PFLOPS peak performance.^[3] Additional systems include NEC clusters (NEC SX-ACE systems for testing, NEC Vulcan + Vulcan2 for non-critical computing) and Cray CS-Storm cluster.^[4]

Known historical configurations:

1996 - Cray T3E / 512 + NEC SX-4

2000 - Hitachi SR-8000 + NEC SX-5 / 32M2

2003 - ? (Opteron/Xeon cluster) + NEC SX-6

2005 - NEC SX-8

2008 - IBM BW-Grid + NEC SX-9

2009 - Cray XT5M

2010 - Cray XE6 "Hermit"

2014 - Cray XC40 "Hornet"

2019 - Cray CS-Storm

2020 - HPE Apollo 9000 "Hawk" + NEC (Vulcan + Vulcan2 + NEC SX-ACE).

See also

• TOP500
• Supercomputing in Europe

External links

• Official website

48.7394°N 9.0972°W

Notes and References

1. Itanium rising: breaking through Moore's second law of computing power by Jim Carlson, Jerry Huck 2002 page 29
2. Web site: Next-Generation HPC System @ HLRS. 13 February 2020. 23 February 2020.
3. https://www.hlrs.de/systems/cray-xc40-hazel-hen/ HLRS High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart - Cray XC40 (Hazel Hen)
4. Web site: HLRS High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart - Systems. 2020-12-12. www.hlrs.de.