High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart

Services are supplied in collaboration with scientific and industrial partners through hkz-bw and hww GmbH (T-Systems, T-Systems SfR GmbH and Porsche AG). In European, national, and industrial projects HLRS conducts basic and applied research in HPC together with partners from research and industry. Collaborative research with automotive industry goes through the Automotive Simulation Center Stuttgart (ASCS).

Main Activities:

• Modeling, Simulation and Visualization of technical systems (Fluid Dynamics, Mechanical/Aerospace/Civil Engineering, Bioinformatics, Medical Engineering)
• Software-Engineering (Development and Implementation of numerical and visualization algorithms, middleware development)
• Grid Computing (Security, Service Level Agreements, Accounting, Billing …)
• Numerical methods for Supercomputers (Vector- and Parallel Systems),
• Development and test of networking components
• Visualization (Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, graphical systems, Visualization/VR in Medicine/Architecture, methods for collaborative working in networks, Audio-Videoconferencing)
• Design and operation of HPC-Computer and Network infrastructure
• Design and implementation of workstation integration into supercomputer environments (distributed computing, client-server-approaches)
• Consulting, research projects, course, education

Qualification:

• Long term experience in simulation in a lot of projects with research organizations and industry (Daimler, Porsche, Bosch, T-Systems, Lasso, Recom, Visenso…)
• Long term experience with HPC hardware and software also due to cooperation with important HPC industries (IBM, Cray, NEC, Intel, Microsoft, HP, Bull…). Long term experience in standardization committees
• Participation in European research projects as part of the 6th and 7th European Research Framework in more then 15 projects; European research network on foundations, access to knowledge through the Grid in a mobile world (Akogrimo); Pan-European research infrastructure on High Performance Computing for the science of 21st century (HPC-Europa); The Next Generation Grid (NextGrid); trust and contract management framework enabling secure collaborative business processing in on-demand created, self-managed, scalable, and highly dynamic Virtual Organizations (TrustCoM); European learning Grid infrastructure (E-LeGI); virtual laboratory for decision support in viral diseases treatment (ViroLab); Business objective driven Reliable and Intelligent grids for real busiNess (BREIN); BEinGRID; CoSpaces; interactive European Grid (int.EU.Grid); distributed European infrastructure for supercomputing applications (DEISA, eDEISA); the European research network on foundations, software infrastructures and applications for large scale distributed, Grid and peer-to-peer technologies (CoreGRID); BMBF: Computational engineering in distributed computing environments and Grids (In-Grid). Financial Business Grid (FinGrid)
• HLRS currently participates in two large collaborative research projects (SFB) funded by DFG. SFB 374: Development and Testing of Innovative Products –Rapid Prototyping. SFB 716 Dynamic Simulations of Systems with Large Numbers of Particles

Computers:

• NEC SX-9/192

• 2x NEC TX7/32

• IBM Cell Blade (7x2 Cell processors)

• Cray XT5m (896 cores)

• NEC Nehalem Cluster (5600 Cores)

• In-Grid Cluster (56 CPU)

• BW-Grid Cluster (3840 cores)

Special Equipment:

Visualization and Virtual Reality Laboratory, Video laboratory, Multimedia Lab, Head Mounted Display for Augmented Reality, Driving simulator.

Target Groups:

Automotive industry, Aerospace industry. Chemical and pharmaceutical industry, Simulation groups of small and medium sized enterprises, medical research and development groups working with simulation, supercomputing groups, and architects.