Mi­le­sto­nes at PC2

1986

First Transputer System at Paderborn University

1986

 

1991

Founding of Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing

Burkhard Monien becomes the first chairman of the PC2

1991

Parsytec SuperCluster SC-320

Tthe cluster is the world's largest parallel computer with a freely programmable network

1992

Burkhard Monien (Chairman) is awarded with the Leibniz Award

Together with Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide, Burkhard Monien was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for work in the field of parallel and distributed computing

1992

Parsytec GCel (#262 / Top500)

With 1024 processors, it is the largest parallel computer with Transputers in Europe

1996

Parsytec GC/PP (#118 / Top500)

1996

 

1998

Fujitsu-Siemens
hpcLine
(#351 / Top500)

1998

 

2003

Megware FPGA Cluster

The cluster is combining standard CPUs with FPGAs and powers one of the best chess computers

2003

HP PLING

It is the first 64bit Linux Cluster with InfiniBand in Europe

2005

Fujitsu/ICT Arminius (#213 / Top500)

For the first time, a cluster at the PC2 is directly cooling CPUs with water

2006

Holger Karl becomes Chairman of the PC2

2006

 

2012

Clustervision
OCuLUS (#173 / Top500)

2012

2015

Christian Plessl becomes Chairman of the PC2

2015

2018

Promotion to Tier-2 HPC Center

With a research infrastructure grant and therefore a new computing center (building X), the PC2 becomes a Tier-2 HPC center

2018

Cray CS500 Noctua 1

At the time of installation, it was the worlds largest academic installation of FPGAs in a HPC cluster

2020

PC2 becomes NHR center

PC2 is selected by the Joint Science Conference as one of 8 centers in the National High Performance Computing Network (NHR)

2022

Atos BullSequana XH2000 Noctua 2

Inauguration of the new high-performance computing center with the "Noctua 2" supercomputer (#121 / Top500)

2025

Lenovo Supercomputer

In 2025, PC2 will inaugurate the next supercomputer