The service portal of the HLRN Scientific Board is open for the submission of project proposals. The next deadline is October 28th 2019 at 23:59. Scientists are invited to submit a proposal for a compute project (Großprojekt) to the Scientific Board for the next quarterly review. After successful review, projects start January 1st 2020, see...Read More

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

Dear HLRN Users, starting immediately you can and have to migrate your data from the old HLRN-III (Cray) home and work directories to the new HLRN-IV filesystems. After the end of the data migration period on Nov 24, 2019, the old file systems will no longer be available and all data that has not been...Read More

Action required! Dear users, from August 5, 2019, on HLRN will open outgoing network connections world wide, however limited to destination ports for ssh, http, and https (22, 80, and 443). At the same time HLRN will remove the list of external target hosts, that a number of users have maintained, as this is not...Read More

Important dates: August 5th, 2019: Begin of the user initiated data migration phase in Berlin October 21st, 2019: Cray XC40/30 is powered off forever Dear HLRN users, we want inform you about the next major steps in preparing the operation of the phase 2 of the HLRN-IV complexes in Berlin and Göttingen.Read More

The Scientific Board of the HLRN is inviting project proposals applying for computing time on the HLRN system. The next deadline is July 28th, 2019, at 23:59. Projects that need more computing time than 10,000 NPL resource units per quarter are invited to submit a project proposal (“Großprojektantrag”) to the Scientific Board (“Wissenschaftlicher Ausschuss”) of...Read More