The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) combines the three national supercomputing centres
HLRS (High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart),
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(Jülich Supercomputing Centre), and
LRZ (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Garching near Munich) into Germany’s Tier-0 supercomputing institution. Each GCS member centre host supercomputers well beyond the 10 Petaflops performance mark. Concertedly, the three centres provide the largest and most powerful supercomputing infrastructure in all of Europe to serve a wide range of industrial and research activities in various disciplines. They also provide training and education for the national as well as the European High Performance Computing (HPC) community.
GCS is the German member of
PRACE
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(Partnership for Advance Computing in Europe), an international non-profit association consisting of 25 member countries, whose representative organizations create a pan-European supercomputing infrastructure, providing access to computing and data management resources and services for large-scale scientific and engineering applications at the highest performance level.
GCS is jointly funded by the
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
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and the federal states of
Baden-Württemberg
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,
Bavaria
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and
North Rhine-Westphalia
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.
GCS has its headquarters in
Berlin
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, Germany.
See also
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TOP500
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Supercomputing in Europe
Several centers for supercomputing exist across Europe, and distributed access to them is coordinated by European initiatives to facilitate high-performance computing. One such initiative, the HPC Europa project, fits within the Distributed Eu ...
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eScience
E-Science or eScience is computationally intensive science that is carried out in highly distributed network environments, or science that uses immense data sets that require grid computing; the term sometimes includes technologies that enable dist ...
References
Research institutes in Berlin
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