Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing

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Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing
Category: research Institute
Carrier: University of Paderborn
Seat of the wearer: Paderborn
Type of research: Basic research
Areas of expertise: Computer science
Management: Christian Plessl
Homepage: [1]

The Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC²) is an interdisciplinary research institute at the University of Paderborn . At the institute, topics of computer science , in particular from the area of distributed and parallel computing, are dealt with. In 2013 the current system OCuLUS (Owl CLUSter) with 9600 cores was installed. The system was ranked 173 in the TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers and 6th in Germany.

history

In July 1986 the first transputer system was installed at the University of Paderborn . The institute was founded in April 1991. In May 1991 the Parsytec SuperCluster SC-320 was put into operation, a new transputer system. At that time it was the world's largest freely configurable system. In January 1992 Burkhard Monien , chairman of the institute, was awarded the Leibniz Prize. In August 1992 the NRW initiative "Parallel Data Processing" eV was founded. In September 1992 the Parsytec GCel-1024 was put into operation. At that time it was the largest multi-transmitter system in Europe with 1024 nodes and 4 GB of RAM . It reached number 259 in the TOP500 list and 22nd in Germany.

In May 1993 a 2 Mbit / s wide area network was installed. In the same month the computer capacities of the institute were made available for the conversion of approx. 5 million postcodes for the credit card company Eurocard . The Parsytec GC / PowerPlus system was installed in September 1994, and in May 1995 the computing capacity of the Parsytec GC / PowerPlus was increased to 192 processors (7.9 GFlop / s , 117th place in the TOP500; 6th place in Germany). In July 1995 the DFG Collaborative Research Center 376 "Massive Parallelism" began: Algorithms, Design Methods and Applications. In June 1996 the Parsytec CC-48 system was installed with 12.76 GFlop / s peak performance, 3 Gbyte main memory and 1 Gbit / s bandwidth .

This was followed in December 1996 with the construction of a heterogeneous SCI cluster with 20 Pentium Pro processors and a Linux - operating system . In April 1997 the connection to a 34Mbit / s wide area network took place . In January 1998 a large SCI cluster with 64 Pentium II processors and 8 Gbytes of RAM was installed, which achieved a peak performance of 19.2 GFlop / s . Another large system came in November 1998, the hpcLine with 192 Pentium II processors, 48 ​​Gbytes of RAM and a peak performance of 86.4 GFlop / s. Shortly afterwards, the PC2 started various collaborations such as B. with Hilti AG in Liechtenstein and Fujitsu Siemens . In November 2000, a new IA-64 system was tested together with Fujitsu Siemens . The hpcLine will be upgraded to 850 MHz processors in February 2001.

Further reinstallations:

  • November 2002 : An Infiniband cluster with 8 Itanium2 processors, 48 ​​Gbytes of RAM and a peak performance of 32 GFlop / s
  • April 2003 : An AMD Opteron cluster with 8 Opteron processors, each with 14 GB of RAM and 22 GFolp / s peak performance
  • August 2003 : A Myrinet clusters with 8 Xeon processors and 4 FPGA cards that for computer chess were destined
  • September 2003 : An Infiniband cluster with 64 Itanium2 processors and 128 Gbytes of RAM . It achieved a peak performance of 332GFlop / s.

In October 2004, the institute said goodbye to the Parsytec GigaCluster GCel. This was brought to the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum . Now that space had been created again, the new HpcLine Arminius cluster with more than 400 Intel Xeon and AMD processors and high-performance visualization could be installed in May 2005 . In June 2005 the new Arminius cluster was introduced, which made it to number 213 in the TOP500 list. As a special feature, the computing cores were cooled directly with water.

Since March 2013 the OCuLUS (Owl CLUSter) has been operated with 9600 computing cores to supply the universities in East Westphalia (OWL).

Overview of the computer system of the.

Meetings

  • June 1992: workshop / tutorial and parallelism day
  • November 1992: International Heinz Nixdorf Symposium "Parallel Architectures and their Efficient Use"
  • June 1996: PC2 user workshop and parallelism day
  • August 2002: The Euro-Par 2002 conference takes place in PC2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ OCuLUS (Owl CLUSter) in the TOP500 list , accessed on March 11, 2015.
  2. ↑ ISC 2006 Arminius Poster  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed March 11, 2015@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / pc2.uni-paderborn.de  
  3. ↑ PC² in the TOP500 list , accessed on March 11, 2015.

Coordinates: 51 ° 42 ′ 25.8 "  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 10.2"  E