High Performance Computing Center, Stuttgart

{{Short description|Supercomputer research institute in Stuttgart, Germany}}

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The High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) in Stuttgart, Germany, is a research institute and a supercomputer center.Itanium rising: breaking through Moore's second law of computing power by Jim Carlson, Jerry Huck 2002 {{ISBN|0-13-046415-5}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=vlJ8BFj6X2UC&pg=PA29 page 29] HLRS has currently a flagship installation of a HPE Apollo 9000 system called Hawk{{cite web |url=http://www.hlrs.de/systems/hpe-apollo-hawk/

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|access-date=23 February 2020}} 26 PFLOPS peak performance replacing the Cray XC40 system called Hazel Hen, providing ~7,4 PFLOPS peak performance.[https://www.hlrs.de/systems/cray-xc40-hazel-hen/ HLRS High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart - Cray XC40 (Hazel Hen)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181103091928/https://www.hlrs.de/systems/cray-xc40-hazel-hen/ |date=2018-11-03 }}, 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.{{Cite web|title=HLRS High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart - Systems|url=http://www.hlrs.de/systems/|access-date=2020-12-12|website=www.hlrs.de}}

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).