Whether it is in Energy, Mobility and Environmental research, the Earth System or Material sciences, or areas such as cybersecurity and medicine: In order to understand natural and technical processes in all their complexity, researchers use the fastest high-performance computers in the world. The National High Performance Computing Center at KIT (NHR@KIT) not only operates supercomputers for researchers from all over Germany, but also offers a wide range of supporting services to scientific communities.
Press photographer Uli Deck from Karlsruhe succeeded particularly well in staging the LED illumination of the new supercomputer HoreKa at NHR@KIT. The photo took a 1st place in the "dpa Press Pictures of the Year 2021" competition.
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National High Performance Computing Center NHR@KIT first operator in Germany to give researchers access to an Graphcore IPU-POD16 system, whose processors are optimized for the computational operations with datatypes of reduced precision that are important for AI/ML.
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The Association for National High Performance Computing - NHR Association was founded in Berlin on the evening of August 23, 2021, in the presence of the representatives of the eight founding members.
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On 30.07.2021 Minister Theresia Bauer handed the new Karlsruhe High-Performance Computer over to the Scientific Community
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After a successful trial run the new supercomputer system goes into operation for research purposes on June 1st, 2021 while final installation continues
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The German Joint Science Conference (GWK) has approved funding for eight computing centers within the framework of National High Performance Computing (NHR) - including the SCC.
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