High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart
The following is a selection of awards won by HLRS and its employees.
| 2025 | HLRS was named winner of the Environmental Management Prize in the Category "Best Measure for Improving Energy Performance" in recognition of its implementation of a dynamic power capping approach developed in cooperation with HPE. |
| 2024 | HLRS was named winner of the Datacenter Strategy Award for "Transformation" in recognition of its sustainable computing center strategy and construction project, HLRS III. |
| 2023 | HLRS and WIKKI GmbH win Hyperion HPC Innovation Award for development of the coherent file format, which makes simulation using OpenFOAM faster and more accessible. |
| 2022 | HLRS and BIB win Hyperion HPC Innovation Award for a COVID-19 pandemic monitoring tool. |
| 2022 | OpenBikeSensor, a technology developed and used in the HLRS Visualization Department receives German Cycling Prize. |
| 2018 | Best Paper Award for Joseph Schuchart at the International Workshop on OMP 2018 |
| 2017 | Hyperion Annual Innovation Excellence Award for the movie “Maya the Bee” |
| 2016 | Best Paper Award for Huan Zhou at the Fourth International Symposium on Computing and Networking (CANDAR) |
| 2015 | HPCwire Reader´s Choice Award 2015 ‘Best Use of HPC In Automotive’ for HLRS using DDN storage to run 1,000 crash simulations within 24 hours |
| 2014 | Simulated Worlds named ‘Especially Award-worthy’ by the foundation of education from Kreissparkasse for the district of Esslingen |
| 2014 | HLRS Director Michael Resch named honorary professor by the Russian Academy of Sciences |
| 2013 | HPCWire Readers' Choice Award for best use of HPC applications in manufacturing |
| 2013 | 2nd place at the Bosch foundation award ‘School meets Science’ for the HLRS project ‘Simulated Worlds’ |
| 2012 | HLRS Director Michael Resch receives Baden-Württemberg Übermorgenmacherpreis (Day-after-tomorrow-maker-award) |
| 2011 | HLRS Director Michael Resch receives honorary doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences |
| 2010 | The project ParMa receives ITEA Gold Award |
| 2009 | HLRS Director Michael Resch receives honorary doctorate of Donetsk National Technical University, Ukraine |
| 2007 | HLRS Director Michael Resch delivers invited plenary talk at SC’07, Reno, USA |
| 2007 | HLRS Director Michael Resch receives Microsoft Award "Early Contributor to Microsoft's Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003" |
| 2007 | HLRS named Chosen Location in Germany: Land der Ideen (country of ideas) competition |
| 2003 | Winner of HPC challenge at SC'03 |
| 2000 | Michael Resch wins Best Paper Award at HPCN'2000 |
| 1999 | US NSF Award for Real Distributed Supercomputing at SC'99, for the first linking of two computers between the US and Europe |
A member of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing, HLRS is one of three German national centers for high-performance computing.
