High-performance computer

• Subject Area: Computer Science
• Term: Funded in 2025
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 550624556

During the last few decades, computational methods for the solution of complex problems have become increasingly established as an indispensable key technology to gain new insights into multiple scientific disciplines. To promote interdisciplinary research, Friedrich Schiller University Jena founded the Michael Stifel Center for Data-driven and Simulation Science, which brings together scientific areas from almost all university faculties. This center also forms an organizational umbrella for working groups that have an exceptionally high demand in compute power and storage requirement, including bioinformatics, geophysics, gravitational theory, high-performance computing, computational material science, nanooptics, quantum theory, numerical relativity, and theoretical chemistry. All these groups share the scientific interest in high-performance computing (HPC). In this context, high-performance computing is not only a research tool used in different application areas, but it is also itself the subject of research, in particular in the development of algorithms, methods, and research software. The goal of the proposed project is to strengthen the interconnection between methodology and application in HPC, to bring even closer together the current and future research topics of the participating working groups, and to improve their international competitiveness by an HPC cluster with a fast interconnection network. The cluster will be integrated into the infrastructure installed at the computing center and centrally operated. To further improve the interdisciplinary research in simulation and data science, the proposed extension of the current HPC infrastructure is accompanied by enhancements in HPC methodology. More precisely, existing teaching activities will be complemented by additional HPC courses and novel HPC consulting services will be initiated.

• DFG Programme: Major Research Instrumentation
• Major Instrumentation: Hochleistungsrechner
• Instrumentation Group: 7000 Datenverarbeitungsanlagen, zentrale Rechenanlagen
• Applicant Institution: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
• Leader: Professor Dr.-Ing. H. Martin Bücker