Supercomputer "Otus" is live at Paderborn University's PC2 — packing 142,656 processor cores, 108 GPUs, and 5 petabytes of storage to run hundreds of scientific simulations simultaneously. As a national high-performance computing center, it's open to researchers nationwide, powered by renewable energy and innovative free cooling. With its energy efficiency, Otus has secured 5th place in the Green500 ranking, proving that cutting-edge computing…

The expansion of datacenter X to over 4 megawatts ensures a future-proof, energy-efficient infrastructure for high-performance computing. Through 95% indirect free cooling and utilization of waste heat in a nearby district heating network, sustainability is effectively achieved.

Bringing together more than 40 researchers from across Europe, the International CP2K-GROMACS Autumn School at Paderborn University bridged the worlds of multiscale atomistic simulation and high-performance computing. Over three intensive days, participants engaged in expert-led lecture series, hands-on training, and a lively poster session, exploring classical and quantum-mechanical molecular dynamics as well as multiscale simulation techniques…

The NHR Conference 2025 took place in Göttingen from September 22 to 25, 2025. It was officially opened by Prof. Christian Plessl, Director of the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing and Chairman of the NHR Association. In his speech, he emphasized the importance of high-performance computing for research and the close cooperation within the NHR network.

The Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC2) has introduced PERSEUS, a new open-source software designed to make the operation of scientific high-performance computing centers (HPC) more efficient and professional. The first beta version has published on September 22nd, 2025.

From July 8 to 10, 2025, Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC2) Paderborn University, in collaboration with the IT Center University of Cologne (ITCC), organized a 3-day course "Introduction to Julia for High-Performance Computing".

On 13th June 2025, the NHR Quantum Optimization Tutorial took place at ISC High Performance 2025 (ISC’25) in Hamburg. Organized by three NHR centers, Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC2), NHR-Nord@Göttingen, and NHR@ZIB, the tutorial provided participants with hands-on experience in quantum computing and its advantages for solving optimization problems in scientific applications.

5th place on international Green500 list 142,656 processor cores, 108 GPUs, AMD processors of the current Turin generation and an IBM Spectrum Scale file system with five petabytes of storage capacity: these are the outstanding inner values of Otus, the new supercomputer at Paderborn University. Even before its official launch in the third quarter of this year, it is already breaking records: at the ISC in Hamburg, the international trade fair…

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Elf Schülerinnen und Schüler des Q2-Informatikkurses des St. Xaver Gymnasiums aus Bad Driburg haben in einem dreitägigen Workshop spannende Einblicke in moderne Forschung gewonnen.

Die Universität Paderborn setzt mit der Installation eines hochmodernen Supercomputers einen bedeutenden Schritt in der Forschung und Lehre.

A three-day course on "Introduction to Julia for High Performance Computing" took place on Sept. 17 to 19, 2024. The course was a hybrid event with about 35 on-site participants and more than 50 online participants from all over Germany.

From the 26th to the 29th of August 2024, the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC2) hosted its second annual hackathon, bringing together researchers with diverse scientific backgrounds to collaborate on innovative High-Performance Computing (HPC) projects.