Scientific Supercomputing Center Karlsruhe (SSCK)

The Scientific Supercomputing Center Karlsruhe is the service unit of the University's Computing Center that cares for supercomputer customers. The SSCK will provide support for experts as well as for novices in parallel computing. Our goal is to help our customers in all problems related to scientific supercomputing. Our services are not only confined to advice on how to use supercomputers efficiently but you will also get qualified help if you are looking for appropriate mathematical methods or simply having problems to login.

Since the first supercomputer was installed in Karlsruhe in 1983 the Computing Center of the University has been continuously engaged in supercomputing. Besides the operating of the machines Karlsruhe has always been establishing expert groups for scientific supercomputing. In the 1980s and 1990s experts of the Computing Center in Karlsruhe tuned numerical libraries for vector computers as well as microprocessor based parallel supercomputers. From this time on close cooperation with other institutes of the university and industrial companies has been initiated.

At the Computing Center solvers for arbitrary systems of nonlinear partial differential equations and iterative linear solvers have been developed. Thus, the experts at the SSCK know about the needs and problems of their customers from their own experience.

High Performance Technical Computing Competence Center (HPTC³)

Together with Hewlett Packard and Intel, the SSCK has established the High Performance Technical Computing Competence Center (HPTC³). The main goals of this partnership are the further development of HP XC systems to make it even more usable and reliable for the customers of hkz-bw. This includes development, test and early deployment of advanced tools supporting the application development process. In close cooperation with end users and independent software vendors the HPTC³ will extend the portfolio of application packages that is available on HP XC6000 clusters. The tuning and optimization of applications to reach highest possible performance is another challenging goal of HPTC³.

Scientific Supercomputing Center Karlsruhe (SSCK)
Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
Rechenzentrum
Zirkel 2
D-76128 Karlsruhe
Germany

Phone: +49 (0) 721 608 8011
http://www.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/ssc/