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The High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) in
Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...
, Germany, is a research institute and a
supercomputer A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second ( FLOPS) instead of million instructions ...
center. HLRS has currently a flagship installation of a HPE Apollo 9000 system called ''Hawk'' 26 PFLOPS peak performance replacing the
Cray XC40 The Cray XC40 is a massively parallel multiprocessor supercomputer manufactured by Cray. It consists of Intel Haswell Xeon processors, with optional Nvidia Tesla or Intel Xeon Phi accelerators, connected together by Cray's proprietary "Aries" ...
system called ''Hazel Hen'', providing ~7,4 PFLOPS peak performance.HLRS High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart - Cray XC40 (Hazel Hen)
''HLRS High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart'', retrieved 2017-11-23 Additional systems include NEC clusters (NEC SX-ACE systems for testing, NEC Vulcan + Vulcan2 for non-critical computing) and Cray CS-Storm cluster. Known historical configurations: 1996 - Cray T3E / 512 + NEC SX-4 2000 - Hitachi SR-8000 + NEC SX-5 / 32M2 2003 - ? (Opteron/Xeon cluster) + NEC SX-6 2005 - NEC SX-8 2008 - IBM BW-Grid + NEC SX-9 2009 - Cray XT5M 2010 - Cray XE6 "Hermit" 2014 - Cray XC40 "Hornet" 2019 - Cray CS-Storm 2020 - HPE Apollo 9000 "Hawk" + NEC (Vulcan + Vulcan2 + NEC SX-ACE).


See also

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TOP500 The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computing, distributed computer systems in the world. The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a year. The first of these ...
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Supercomputing in Europe Several centers for supercomputing exist across Europe, and distributed access to them is coordinated by European initiatives to facilitate high-performance computing. One such initiative, the HPC Europa project, fits within the Distributed Eu ...


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