Parallel and Many-Core Supercomputing Infrastructure (Z02)

• Subject Area: Physics
• Term: from 2015 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 138713538

The dedicated parallel supercomputer MILKY WAY, consisting of a workstation cluster accelerated by many-core graphical processing units (GPU) as well as multi-core CPUs provides powerful and easily accessible computing capability to all SFB research projects. It has been very suc-cessfully hosted for the SFB by the Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC). We therefore seek to continue this collaboration in the next funding period. A mid-term upgrade of the MILKY WAY sys-tem is envisaged. A specialized computing laboratory at ARI should be initiated, to test and ex-plore the technical possibilities for that.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 881: The Milky Way System
• Major Instrumentation: Supercomputer Upgrade
• Applicant Institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Co-Applicant Institution: Heidelberger Institut für Theoretische Studien (HITS)
• Project Heads: Professor Ralf Klessen, Ph.D.; Professor Dr. Volker Springel; Professor Dr. Rainer Spurzem