Consortium

The Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JULICH), an institute at Forschungszentrum Jülich with 90 staff and 35 third-party funded members, provides supercomputer resources of the petaflop performance class, HPC tools, methods and know-how for the Forschungszentrum Jülich and on the national level for more than 200 German and European projects through the John von Neumann Institute for Computing. JUELICH operates the supercomputers and server systems as well as the campus-wide cluster computer networks and communication systems. In June 2009, the supercomputers offered by Jülich are a 200 Teraflop/s Intel-based called JuRoPA and a 72-rack IBM Blue Gene/P petaflop system called JUGENE. Besides the provision of leadership-class supercomputers JUELICH is focussing on technology development in cooperation with hardware industry and academic partners. Part of this activity is the exploration of opportunities provided by new architectures based on FPGA, Cell and GPU systems. A further important task of JUELICH is the user support and higher education. Support, both basic and in methods and optimization, is offered by experts in computer and computational sciences. Community-oriented support is provided by so-called Simulation Laboratories - research and support structures for specific scientific communities like plasma physics, material science, soft matter, biology etc. Cross disciplinary groups support the users in mathematical methods and performance analysis. Exa-scaling of applications and algorithms has become a major target of the activities of both simulation labs and cross-disciplinary groups. The newly funded German Research School for Simulation Sciences (GRS), a joint venture of Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen University, offers programs for master and doctoral students. Studies include all subjects relevant for simulation on high-performance computers ranging from the disciplinary sciences like physics, chemistry, or biology, to the interdisciplinary fields of numerics and computer science.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Lippert, Dr.-Ing. Bernd Mohr and Godehard Sutmann.