The Bau- und Liegenschaftsbetrieb Nordrhein-Westfalen (BLB NRW) has completed and handed over the new high-performance computing center for Paderborn University. Now the installation of the second stage of the supercomputer Noctua, one of the fastest computers in Germany, can be started by the university.

Invitation to PC² User Meeting 2021, Wednesday 10th November 2021, 15:00-17:30, virtual

Anja Karliczek: “This is key for guaranteeing the quality of German university research, and for setting Germany up as a future-proof location for research and innovation”

The Second International Workshop on High-Performance Business Computing (HPBC) was held digitally (due to COVID-19 pandemic) on June 25, 2021. The workshop was technically hosted by the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC2) of Paderborn University. The primary objective of the workshop was the discussion of the design, implementation, computational evaluation, and application of parallel algorithms in modern high-performance computing…

140,000 processing cores, the very latest generation of high-tech features, and compact enough to fit inside a squash court – Paderborn University is getting a new supercomputer. “Noctua 2,” the project name given to the second expansion stage of the “Noctua” installed in 2018, will be built by market leader Atos and is expected to be installed by the end of the year.

The international IT symposium “Highly Efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies” (HEART) will be held online this year, from June 21 to 23. The forum will explore the latest research findings on computer systems and methods in the context of hardware-accelerated high-performance computing (HPC). This time Paderborn is hosting the conference following Toronto and Nagasaki in previous years. The focus is on how to achieve the best…

Supported by a fellowship for "Innovations in Digital University Teaching" funded by Stifterverband and the state of NRW, Paderborn University has taken a step towards lowering the the barrier for students and researchers to use high-performance computing resources with Jupyter notebooks. To achieve this goal, the University of Applied Sciences South Westphalia and the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing at Paderborn University have…

The fourth Call for Proposals for HPC resources at PC² is now open (Call 2021-1).

Up to 75 million euros from the federal and state governments for high performance computing at  Paderborn University The High-Performance Computing Center of Paderborn University is accepted into the newly founded National High-Performance Computing Centers Association (NHR). The Joint Science Conference (GWK) decided on this today. For this expansion, the University has applied to the Federal Government and the State of North Rhine-Westphalia…

Invitation to PC² User Meeting 2020, Thursday 26th November 2020, 15:00-17:25, virtual

Paderborn. At the Paderborn University, the Bau- und Liegenschaftsbetrieb des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (BLB NRW, the Construction and Real Estate Company of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia) is building a new high-performance computer center

The third Call for Proposals for HPC resources at PC² is now open.

Our paper "A Submatrix-Based Method for Approximate Matrix Function Evaluation in the Quantum Chemistry Code CP2K" has been accepted for publication at Supercomputing 2020. In close collaboration, members of the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing, the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Chemistry have extended the open source quantum chemistry code CP2K by an implementation of the submatrix method for approximate function…

The construction of our new HPC data center is making good progress. We are looking forward moving to the new building in 2021. Below, we share a time lapse video and a few impressions since the beginning of the construction in October 2019 (see article on beginning of construction).

The NRW-wide HPC competence network hpc.nrw (https://hpc.dh.nrw) aims at improving the available software, support, courses, and workshops for scientific and high-performance computing in NRW. For this purpose, we would like to learn more about your current problems, needs, and interests. We would be very grateful if you could fill out our survey at https://hpc.dh.nrw/nutzerbefragung by June 26nd, 2020. The survey is anonymous, in English, and…