High-Performance Computing Center of the University of Stuttgart Receives new Supercomputer
High-Performance Computing Center of the University of Stuttgart Receives new Supercomputer - Today at the High-Performance Computing Center of the University of Stuttgart (HLRS), Baden-Württemberg Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann, Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Education and Research Michael Meister, and Baden-Württemberg Science Minister Theresia Bauer joined in a ceremony marking the beginning of operation of HLRS's new supercomputer, called "Hawk." With a peak performance of approximately 26 Petaflops (26 quadrillion floating point operations per second), Hawk - an Apollo System from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) - is among the fastest supercomputers worldwide and the fastest general purpose system for scientific and industrial computing in Europe. Prof. Wolfram Ressel, Rector of the University of Stuttgart, welcomed the inauguration of the new supercomputer: "Hawk expands the University of Stuttgart's already excellent research infrastructure with an additional flagship system. It will enable cutting edge academic and industrial research in a wide range of contexts where simulation and Big Data play important roles. In this way the new high-performance computer also makes an important contribution to realizing the University of Stuttgart's vision, Intelligent systems for a sustainable society." Hawk will play a central role in the German national and State of Baden-Württemberg high-performance computing strategies. Its inauguration marks the beginning of a new era for research in the computational sciences, simulation, and artificial intelligence in Germany and Baden-Württemberg, particularly with regard to their applications in engineering.
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