Milestones at PC2
First Transputer System at Paderborn University
1986
Founding of Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing
Burkhard Monien becomes the first chairman of the PC2
Parsytec SuperCluster SC-320
Tthe cluster is the world's largest parallel computer with a freely programmable network
Burkhard Monien (Chairman) is awarded with the Leibniz Award
Together with Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide, Burkhard Monien was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for work in the field of parallel and distributed computing
Parsytec GCel (#262 / Top500)
With 1024 processors, it is the largest parallel computer with Transputers in Europe
Parsytec GC/PP (#118 / Top500)
1996
Fujitsu-Siemens hpcLine (#351 / Top500)
1998
Megware FPGA Cluster
The cluster is combining standard CPUs with FPGAs and powers one of the best chess computers
HP PLING
It is the first 64bit Linux Cluster with InfiniBand in Europe
Fujitsu/ICT Arminius (#213 / Top500)
For the first time, a cluster at the PC2 is directly cooling CPUs with water
Holger Karl becomes Chairman of the PC2
2006
Clustervision OCuLUS (#173 / Top500)
2012
Christian Plessl becomes Chairman of the PC2
2015
Promotion to Tier-2 HPC Center
With a research infrastructure grant and therefore a new computing center (building X), the PC2 becomes a Tier-2 HPC center
Cray CS500 Noctua 1
At the time of installation, it was the worlds largest academic installation of FPGAs in a HPC cluster
PC2 becomes NHR center
PC2 is selected by the Joint Science Conference as one of 8 centers in the National High Performance Computing Network (NHR)
Atos BullSequana XH2000 Noctua 2 (#121 / Top500)
Inauguration of the new high-performance computing center with the "Noctua 2" supercomputer (#82 / Green500)
Lenovo ThinkSystem SD655 V3 Otus (#164 / Top500, #5 / Green500)
Installation of the "Otus" supercomputer, ranked in the Top500 as #164 (CPU partition) and #255 (GPU partition), with the GPU partition ranking #5 in the Green500