High Performance Computing Center, Stuttgart

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]

Building in Stuttgart
Cray XC40 "Hazel Hen".

Known historical configurations:[4]

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

References
  1. Itanium rising: breaking through Moore's second law of computing power by Jim Carlson, Jerry Huck 2002 ISBN 0-13-046415-5 page 29
  2. "Next-Generation HPC System @ HLRS". 13 February 2020. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
  3. HLRS High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart - Cray XC40 (Hazel Hen), HLRS High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, retrieved 2017-11-23
  4. "HLRS High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart - Systems". www.hlrs.de. Retrieved 2020-12-12.

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