News

07. 05. 13
Happy Anniversary, Hermit!

One year after its official inauguration, HLRS supercomputer Hermit is firmly established in the world of industrial supercomputing: to date Hermit - a Cray XE6 system with 113,664 processor cores - still holds the...

04. 05. 13
Formula 1 in Schools

The HLRS sponsored "Panternight-Racing" Team won the constructors championship and an overall third place at the German national championship with their CO² propelled model size Formula 1 car. They therby earned a...

29. 04. 13
Belebende Farbsinfonie - Filder Zeitung 25.04.2013

19. 04. 13
Scientists Compute Expansion of the Compound Catalog

Thermodynamics simulations help researchers to study chemicals too risky for experiment

19. 12. 12
HLRS Participates in European Initiative to Bridge Clouds

Together with 13 European partners, HLRS has launched a major research initiative called PaaSage in order to develop an open and integrated platform to support model based lifecycle management of Cloud applications. PaaSage is...

01. 12. 12
Golden Spike Award 2012

For the 15th time in the history of HLRS, the national research community using the HPC computing resources of HLRS met in Stuttgart-Vaihingen for the annual „HLRS Results and Review Workshop“. Of all projects presented at the...

30. 11. 12
Media Coverage CAVE Inauguration

In the new HLRS building, researchers can step into a room less than 3 meters wide and travel through a running coal power plant, lift a car above their heads, stand in the middle of hemoglobin proteins, or travel alongside a...

31. 10. 12
New CAVE and Annex Building Inaugurated

On October 31, 2012, an official ceremony was held at HLRS to inaugurate the new annex building of HLRS and its brand new 3D Visualization and Virtual Reality Center, CAVE. Please see here for the official press release. For an...

31. 10. 12
The New MPI-3.0 Standard

On September 21, 2012, the new Message-Passing Interface standard MPI-3.0 was officially released. MPI-3.0 is a new version of the MPI standard that better serves the needs of the parallel computing community for improved...

12. 10. 12
HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING IN SCIENCE & ENGINEERING 2012

The 15th Results and Review Workshop of the HLRS, October 10-11, 2012 takes place at the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Allmandring 30, 70569 Stuttgart

12. 09. 12
Hermit in the Media

Media Coverage on Official Inauguration of Hermit

12. 09. 12
Hermit Enables Study of Climate and Tempests

A team of climate scientists under Prof. Pier Luigi Vidale are using the computing power of HLRS’s Petascale System Hermit, working eagerly on gaining a better understanding of weather phenomena. The results of project UPSCALE...

28. 02. 12
Prof. Roland Rühle passed away

The former director of HLRS Professor Roland Rühle passed away on February 25, 2012. Prof. Rühle was a key figure in high performance computing simulation at the University of Stuttgart for three decades. He was the first...

14. 11. 11
HLRS runs fastest civil supercomputer in Europe

In the Top500 list of the fastest supercomputers published today the new HLRS computing system at HLRS is listed as the 12th fastest supercomputer in the world

21. 10. 11
CoolEmAll project kicks off

This October, HLRS started a new collaborative research project for a new generation of energy efficient IT Service Centres. The CoolEmAll project (Platform for Optimising the Design and Operation of Modular Configurable IT...

12. 10. 11
International Workshop Industrial HPC

Slides of the "International Workshop Industrial HPC"

05. 10. 11
HERMIT system has finalized acceptance phase

The HLRS Petaflop system has been successfully passed acceptance testing and will enter normal operation status 01.01.2012

17. 03. 11
inSiDE Autumn 2010

inSiDE • Vol. 8 No. 2 • Autumn 2010

16. 02. 11
HPC-Europa2 closing date for applications on February 28th

HPC-Europa2 is an EC-funded programme which allows scientists to carry out short "transnational access" research visits to collaborate with a research department working in a similar field. Applicants can be working in...

19. 01. 11
HLRS Bi-Annual Report 2008/2009

28. 10. 10
ParMA Project wins the ITEA Achievement Award 2010

The project ParMA - Parallel Programming for Multicore Architectures - wins the ITEA Achievement Award 2010 in Gold for outstanding contributions to the ITEA programme. The objective of this three-year...

16. 06. 10
236 Millionen Euro für Ausbau der Höchstleistungsrechner-infrastrukturen - Kabinett beschließt Ausbauplanungen bis 2016

Universität Stuttgart erhält Höchstleistungsrechner – Rechner- und Speicherkapazitäten am KIT werden erweitert

16. 04. 10
Rechenzentrum in Stuttgart wird erweitert - Staatsanzeiger 16.04.2010

13. 04. 10
Neubau für Superrechner - Stuttgarter Zeitung 13.04.2010

24. 02. 10
GAMES project kicks off

This January, HLRS will start a new collaborative research project for a new generation of energy efficient IT Service Centres. The GAMES project will deliver an innovative framework of methodologies, Open Source ICT tools and...

11. 01. 10
S(o)OS project kicks off

This february, HLRS will start a new collaborative research project on future operating systems for highly scalable, heterogeneous resource infrastructures. The project will investigate how processes need to be managed both in...

16. 11. 09
Book on Service Oriented Infrastructures and Cloud Service Platforms for the Enterprise published

This book edited by British Telecom, ATOS Origin and HLRS describe identified patterns and solutions for Grids and Clouds in a commercial environment as identified by the currently largest ICT project of the European commission:...

30. 06. 09
Extension of CuttingSurface-Modul for visualization of simulation data on arbitrarily cross sections

See the attached PDF-File in german.

12. 06. 09
New CRAY XT5m System

is available !

12. 06. 09
New Intel Nehalem Cluster

is available !

29. 04. 09
FinGrid Book now available

The FinGid project has published its first book "Grid Computing in der Finanzindustrie: Ein Herausgeberband des D-Grid-Projekts FinGrid", containing several articles targeting special areas of Grid Computing and...

22. 11. 08
Simulation und Schmerzen - Stuttgarter Zeitung 22.11.2008

05. 08. 08
Karlsruhe plant ein neues Klimazentrum - Südwestdeutsche Zeitung 05.08.2008

11. 02. 08
Steckbrief Klaus Tappeser - bw Woche 11.02.2008

07. 12. 07
SX-8 Ein Computer der Superlative - Filder Woche 07.12.2007

01. 12. 07
In Stuttgart sieht man die Zukunft in 3D - Good News, Dezember 2007

26. 10. 07
Kleine Kammer für großes Kino - Stuttgarter Zeitung 26.10.2007

01. 09. 07
Der Super-Simulator - Trottwar, September 2007

01. 09. 07
Zusammenschluss deutscher Supercomputer - Naturwissen

01. 09. 07
Knoten im Rechner,aber nicht im Hirn - Stuttgarter Wochenblatt

23. 06. 07
Mobilität der Zukunft - Stuttgarter Zeitung und Stuttgarter Nachrichten 23.06.2007

20. 06. 07
Versuche zum Anfassen - Stuttgarter Zeitung und Stuttgarter Nachrichten 20.06.2007

01. 11. 06
Das Prestige-Projekt NSI muss neu ausgerichtet und optimiert werden - bbw magazin, November 2006

22. 08. 06
Das Auto wird nur virtuell vor die Wand gesetzt - Filder Zeitung 22.08.2006

01. 12. 05
Garage für eine Maschine - Deutsches Architektenblatt, Dezember 2005

17. 11. 05
Duell der Superhirne - Frankfurter Allgemeine 17.11.2005

08. 11. 05
Eine Frage des Standorts - Süddeutsche Zeitung 08.11.2005

16. 08. 05
Universitäten schüren ganzes Bündel an Bewerbungen - Südwestdeutsche Zeitung 16.08.2005

06. 05. 05
Billiges Supercomputing wird es nicht geben - VDI Nachrichten 06.05.2005

06. 05. 05
Schub für deutsche Supercomputer-Forschung - VDI Nachrichten 06.05.2005