1986

Burkhard Monien becomes the first chairman of the PC2

Tthe cluster is the world's largest parallel computer with a freely programmable network

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

With 1024 processors, it is the largest parallel computer with Transputers in Europe

1996

1998

The cluster is combining standard CPUs with FPGAs and powers one of the best chess computers

It is the first 64bit Linux Cluster with InfiniBand in Europe

For the first time, a cluster at the PC2 is directly cooling CPUs with water

2006

2012

2015

With a research infrastructure grant and therefore a new computing center (building X), the PC2 becomes a Tier-2 HPC center

At the time of installation, it was the worlds largest academic installation of FPGAs in a HPC cluster

PC2 is selected by the Joint Science Conference as one of 8 centers in the National High Performance Computing Network (NHR)

Inauguration of the new high-performance computing center with the "Noctua 2" supercomputer (#121 / Top500)

In 2025, PC2 will inaugurate the next supercomputer