The Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing, PC2, is a central scientific institute of Paderborn University, Germany. Our mission is to promote interdisciplinary research in parallel and distributed computing with innovative computer systems. As a National High-Performance Computing Center and member of the National HPC Alliance (NHR), we operate several high-performance computing systems to provide a research and service infrastructure for academic users in Germany.

Our expertise and services are focused on the following areas:

• Atomistic simulations in physics, chemistry and materials science, optoelectronics and quantum photonics, and scientific machine learning for science and engineering.
• Development of massively parallel simulation methods, algorithms and numerical methods in computational science and engineering, targeting heterogeneous computer architectures.
• Energy-efficient computing with FPGA-based hardware accelerators

We exploit the synergies of this unique combination of services and research to meet the needs of the computational sciences while addressing the major challenges in computing systems research: energy efficiency, scalability and programmability.

Our team of HPC and domain experts has deep expertise in these areas, enabling us to advance the state of the art and develop applications science and methodologies in collaboration with the users of our infrastructure. We actively contribute to strengthening the methodological skills of our users by offering and co-organising specialised training courses, scientific workshops and summer schools. We also contribute our developments to widely used scientific software and libraries to make the results available to the wider research community.