Next Su­per­com­pu­ter - Out­look

Close-up of a blade with AMD EPYC™ 9655 (Turin) CPUs. (© Paderborn University / Stefan Rohde)
The Cooling Manager has been installed (Oct. 2024). Hot water cooling, very energy efficient!
First management racks with the GPFS storage system at a temporary location (Dec. 2024). Initial tests are being carried out. More progress presented soon ..

In 2025, PC2 will inaugurate the next supercomputer which will be delivered, installed and maintained by pro-com Datensysteme GmbH. Beginning in 2025, a large portion of the computer system will be made available for nationwide use as part of the National High Performance Computing (NHR) initiative and will support the Atomistic Simulation research priority, among others. In addition, the HPC system will be available to all researchers at Paderborn University and other scientists in the PC2 research focus areas from North Rhine-Westphalia. The current Noctua 2 system at PC2 will thus be complemented by another HPC system with approximately twice the computing power. The cost of the system in the planned final configuration will be approximately 14 million Euros.

Apply for free access to our supercomputers for research purposes. Details here.

Manufacturer Lenovo                                                                                          
Compute Nodes

> 650 nodes, each with

    • 2x CPU, AMD EPYC 9655
GPU Nodes

> 25 nodes, each with

    • 2x CPU, AMD EPYC 9655

    • 4x NVIDIA H100
FPGA Nodes

32 FPGA nodes, each with

    • 2x CPU, AMD EPYC 9655

    • FPGA configuration TBA
Communication Network Nvidia NDR InfiniBand
Storage System IBM Spectrum Scale
> 5 PB capacity