We have published an implementation of the well-known STREAM Benchmark for FPGAs. The project contains kernels written in OpenCL and a host code with high resemblance to the original benchmark to measure the global memory bandwidth of an FPGA card as well as the achievable bandwidth between host and device.

On Sunday, the ISC 2019 in Frankfurt started. We will be there from Tuesday to Thursday and contribute to the program.

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Burkhard Monien – founder of the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing, emeritus Professor of Computer Science, and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz Award Laureate – has received another great honor. On May 15, Prof. Monien has been awarded the Badge of Honor of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.

We have published the open-source HTrOP tool for transparently offloading computation hotspots to heterogeneous computing devices using OpenCL at GitHub. More details and an evaluation of HTrOP can be found in an ACM TACO article, which has just been published.

On March 25 2019, Tobias Kenter conducted a tutorial at the DATE 2019 conference in Florence under the title OpenCL design flows for Intel and Xilinx FPGAs - common optimization strategies, design patterns and vendor-specific differences. The tutorial material is now available for download.

The resource allocation board of the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC2) has approved the allocation of 156 million core-hours to 59 computing projects. Overall 13 large projects, requesting more than 2 million core-hours and 46 small projects (below 2 million core-hours) have been approved thereof 19 external projects of principal investigators not affiliated with Paderborn University.

On 14th and 15th of March 2019 the spring meeting of the ZKI work group on supercomputing will be held at the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC2). Participants can expect interesting talks and workshops on the current state and progress of high-performance computing in Germany.

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

A major breakthrough in the measurement and understanding of the electronic structure changes during chemical reactions has been achieved by a team of physicists led by Martin Wolf (Fritz-Haber-Institut Berlin) and Wolf Gero Schmidt (Universität Paderborn). The researchers were able to monitor for the first time the redistribution of electrons during a chemical reaction in real time. The corresponding driving forces and mechanisms could be…

We invite all current and prospective users to the first PC2 User Meeting.

On September 24 ­­­­­­– 25 2018, a tutorial on Working with OpenCL for Intel FPGAs was held at the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing. With the new supercomputer Noctua that was inaugurated on September 21, the PC² has installed 32 state of the art FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) as particularly energy efficient accelerators.

On September 21 2018, the new supercomputer “Noctua” (Latin: Little Owl) was inaugurated at Paderborn University. The high-performance computing system is expected to be one of the ten most powerful university installations within Germany. This is the first step on the path into a new era for Paderborn University and PC2.

According to recent estimations, IT systems consume about 15% of the global electrical power. Due to the continuing exponential growth of computing systems, there is a strong economic and ecologic interest to increase their energy-efficiency. How this goal can be achieved is demonstrated by the computer scientist Prof. Dr. Christian Plessl and the theoretical chemist Prof. Dr. Thomas D. Kühne with their interdisciplinary research project, which…

Since August 1998, the University of Paderborn has been training IT specialists in system integration. The Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC2) celebrated this anniversary by organizing a reunion of the program’s graduates, and the invitation was accepted by 13 of the 16 former and current students. At 38 percent, the share of women who have completed the PC² program is well above the 2016 national German average of 7.9 percent.

Within the last decade the research field of Optoelectronics and Photonics has emerged as an active and successful focal area at the Paderborn University. Some highlights investigated are novel light diodes & lasers, ultrafast digital communication via fibers, integrated optical circuits, biological photonic structures, concepts for optical quantum computers, optical sensors, antennae for light, metamaterials, and holograms from ultrathin layers.…