High Performance Computing at the University of Bonn
Welcome to High Performance Computing (HPC) at the University of Bonn. This website is your central hub for everything concerning HPC.
Here you can find information on the central HPC systems at the University of Bonn, possibilities to interact with the HPC community and our partners (like HPC.NRW), training opportunities, and articles on important topics such as publication policies. There is also information on our consulting services and what to do if you want to use other HPC systems beyond Uni Bonn.
This website is the shared work of both our HPC-related groups: The HPC team at the University Computer Centre (HRZ) and the High Performance Computing and Analytics Lab (HPC/A-Lab).
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+300 Registered users
Within the first six months, 307 users have successefully registred for Marvin. Our users possess multidisciplinary backgrounds, from diverse departments and share a comman goal of securely handling their data for safety purposes.
+70 Research groups
Since our large cluster Marvin was made available, 75 research groups have joined and been active. Each group leader has to confirm the registration of every new user in his group and own the management, but can delegate adminstration to a group member upon request.
+500 Support cases
Our teams have successefully completed arround 570 support cases on both clusters Marvin and Bender. We strive to provide fast, effective and accurate support services that ranges from technical and administrative to scientific, in addition to training courses.
+30 Courses
Currently, 35 courses have been held with more to come starting this semesters. Our courses focus on using HPC clusters but, we are expanding our offerings to include diverse contents so that attendees with various backgrounds can benefit from each session.