Dear HLRN user, This is an announcement regarding the preparation phase of the new HLRN-IV system in Berlin. The schedule has been updated as follows. * The date for the final shutdown of the Cray compute system has changed from October 21st to October 16th, 2019. * Service of the Berlin data migration nodes will...Read More

The annual infrastructure maintenance will be performed at ZIB on Tuesday, September 17, from 8:00 until late afternoon. Some HLRN services will be partially or fully unavailable for ALL users. During that time the Berlin complex Konrad will be fully unavailable. the data migration in Berlin will be interrupted. ZIB may be partially or entirely...Read More

We are happy to announce that the first GPU node went into production in Göttingen today. The node (ggpu01) has the following hardware: 2 x Intel Skylake Gold 6148 CPUs (40 cores per node) 192 GB memory 1 x 480 GB solid-state disk 1 x Intel Omni-Path host fabric adapter 4 x NVIDIA Tesla V100...Read More

Emmy und Lise – Names for the HLRN-IV systems – Since December 2019 the HLRN-IV phase 1 in Göttingen is in user operation. Phase 2 of HLRN-IV will open for operation by the end of 2019 at both HLRN compute sites Berlin und Göttingen. The HLRN alliance has revealed names for both systems: Emmy in...Read More

Feierliche Einweihung HLRN-IV Supercomputer – Wir freuen uns auf die feierliche Einweihung des HLRN-IV-Supercomputers im Dezember 2019. Bereits seit dem Jahr 2001 unterstützt der Norddeutsche Verbund für Hoch- und Höchstleistungsrechnen (HLRN-Verbund) mit Rechenkapazitäten die Spitzenforschung in Deutschland. Das System der vierten Generation hat knapp eine Viertelmillion Rechenkerne und ist etwa sechsmal so schnell wie das...Read More