bwHPC | Baden-Württemberg

HPC Cluster and Data Facilities

Financed by national and state funds a comprehensive high performance computing (HPC) cluster and data facility infrastructure is provided to Baden-Württemberg's scientists. These resources are differentiated by scientific areas and application's requirements and scalability. Users' resource requests are therefore assigned accordingly.

bwHPC Clusters

Baden-Württemberg provides five HPC clusters at performance Tier 3 - aka the bwHPC clusters. The following summary lists the clusters' designated purpose or scientific community (bwHPC domains), user guides and operational status ranging from OK, constrained, unavailable to unknown.

bwUniCluster 2.0

bwHPC Domains: General purpose, Teaching
Info: Access, HowTo, Software
Status (2023-02-08 16:55): Job Submit Login

bwForCluster JUSTUS 2

bwHPC Domains: Theoretical Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Physics
Info: Access, HowTo, Software

bwForCluster Helix

bwHPC Domains: Computational Humanities, Structural and Systems Biology, Medical Science, Soft matter
Info: Access, HowTo, Software
Status (2023-02-08 16:55): Job Submit Login

bwForCluster NEMO

bwHPC Domains: Neurosciences, Particle physics, Materials science, Micro system engineering
Info: Access, HowTo, Software
Status (2023-02-08 16:55): Job Submit Login

bwForCluster BinAC

bwHPC Domains: Bioinformatics, Astrophysics, Geosciences
Info: Access, HowTo, Software
Status (2023-02-08 16:55): Job Submit Login

Tier 2,1,0 Clusters

For users with very high compute resource demands and highly parallelizable applications the following cluster at higher performance tiers are available:

HoreKa

Tier 2 HPC Cluster: More

Hawk

Tier 0/1 HPC Cluster: More

Data Facilities

Baden-Württemberg provides the following data facilities:

SDS@hd

Scientific Data Storage, provided by the University Heidelberg: More

bwDataArchive

Long-term archival storage of research data, provided by KIT: More