Former HPC systems at KIT

Former HPC systems at KIT, i.e. the computing center of the University of Karlsruhe and the Institute for Scientific Computing (IWR) at the Karlsruhe Research Center (FZK), which are no longer in operation:

  • bwGRiD - Karlsruhe cluster (2008 - February 2014)
  • Institute Cluster II (August 2012 - August 2017)
    A high-performance computer supported by various institutes of the KIT together with the SCC was the InstitutsCluster II - a massively parallel parallel computer with a total of 407 SMP nodes, a theoretical peak performance of 135.5 TFLOPS and 28.3 TB of main memory. It was available to the institutes that had contributed funds according to their share. Read more
  • bwUniCluster (January 2014 - March 2020)
    In January 2014, the SCC put the parallel computer "bwUniCluster" into operation as a state service as part of the Baden-Württemberg implementation concept for high-performance computing - bwHPC. In May 2017, an extension of the cluster was put into operation, which is still in operation as an "extension" of bwUniCluster 2.0. Read more
  • ForHLR I (September 2014 - April 2020)
    In September 2014, the SCC commissioned the first phase of the parallel computer ForHLR - referred to as ForHLR I - as a nationwide high-performance research computer. In April 2020, ForHLR 1 was decommissioned, while the second phase of ForHLR remained in operation. Read more
  • ForHLR II (March 2016 - April 2021)
    The larger second phase of the ForHLR parallel computer was shut down in April 2021. Read more
  • bwUniCluster 2.0+GFB-HPC (March 2020 - April 2025)
    The extension of bwUniCluster 2.0 (UC2e), which was put into operation in 2022 and can be recognized by the partition name "Ice Lake", will remain in operation. The Ice Lake partition will be available in bwUniCluster 3.0 Read more