Overview¶
Welcome to the Tier 2 High Performance Computing system "Hochleistungsrechner Karlsruhe" (HoreKa) at KIT.
HoreKa is an innovative hybrid system with more than 60,000 processor cores, nearly 300 terabytes of main memory and more than 750 NVDIA (A100 and H100) GPUs. The CPU partition is called HoreKa Blue, while the GPU partition is called HoreKa Green and the NVIDIA H100 GPU partition is called HoreKa Teal.
A 200 GBit/s non-blocking InfiniBand HDR network is used as the communication network, and two parallel Spectrum Scale file systems with a total capacity of more than 15 petabytes are used for data storage.
A key consideration during the design of the system were the enormous amounts of data generated by scientific research projects. A multi-level data storage architecture guarantees high-throughput processing on external storage systems.
HoreKa is housed in a dedicated computer building on KIT's North Campus, which was newly constructed in 2015 for its predecessor ForHLR. The award-winning, energy-efficient hot water cooling concept is continued with the new system.
Access¶
Employees of all Universities and research institutes in Germany can request access to HoreKa by submitting a project proposal. Project managers of a foreign research organization need a german partner to submit the proposal.
Use of HoreKa is free of charge, but the resource has to be acknowleged on all publications.