HPC: new Supercomputer before start of operation HPC: new Supercomputer before start of operation

After arriving in early summer, operation starts this autumn: The new Supercomputer in High Performance Computing "Marvin" starts his job. On October 20 this year, Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael Hoch and other representatives of the university, as well as Bonn's mayor Nicole Unterseh, will inaugurate the new computer, which belongs to the 500 fastest Supercomputers worldwide. 

With the last construction meeting, all of the necessary construction measures before and after the delivery of the new computer (as reported in July 2023), were successfully completed in time, as of September 29, 2023: 

Power supply is ensured and the workflows with energy suppliers, in case of necessary warnings concerning downtimes, last-tests, have been established. Furthermore, the functionality of the cooling system, the stability of the air temperatures during full workload and the emergency opening of all racks (in which the computing power is contained) has been tested. 

All that is left to be done, is the replacement of defect hardware and the configuration of the system, before doing the final configuration and the installation of the user software. Hence, mid-october the power-user-phase can be implemented where chosen power-users can test the system beforehand.

The new Supercomputer will be available to all members of the university and their project partners, starting December 2023. Scientists of the medical faculty and members of UKB with a Uni-ID can also take advantage of the new computing power. Advanced skills using Linux-HPC resources are necessary, you can also achieve these skills in the classes offered by the HPC-team of the University IT and Data Center. The HPC-team monitors the computing processes and the resource consumption to prevent improper usage.