Applications possible until 5 November
A file system with five petabytes of storage capacity, 142,656 processor cores and 108 GPUs make "Otus" the new IT centrepiece of Paderborn University. The supercomputer will be officially inaugurated on Monday, 10 November. With this system, the university has made it to fifth place in the so-called "Green 500", i.e. the ranking of the world's most efficient computer systems. Anyone interested can take part in the inauguration and commissioning ceremony. The event will take place from 4pm in lecture theatre O1 (Building O, Pohlweg 51). Registration is possible until 5 November at https://events.uni-paderborn.de/e/otus.
The new high-performance computer is operated by the Paderborn University Centre for Parallel Computing (PC2), an interdisciplinary research institution. Prof Dr Christian Plessl, computer scientist at the Paderborn Institute of Computer Science and head of PC2, explains: "With Otus, we are providing scientists with exactly the infrastructure they need to work on the most complex research questions in disciplines such as physics, chemistry or machine learning at the highest level." Developed by Lenovo in collaboration with pro-com Datensysteme GmbH, Otus enables a wide range of computationally intensive applications - from atomistic simulations to artificial intelligence and quantum computing. Otus is also making a name for itself in terms of sustainability: Thanks to indirect free cooling, the supercomputer can be operated in an energy-efficient manner all year round, for example, and the waste heat can be used to heat the building. The electricity is generated from renewable sources and is therefore CO2-free.
University President Prof Dr Matthias Bauer, who gave welcoming remarks at the opening, said: "High-performance computing is hugely relevant to the pressing challenges of our time. This is because it is used for issues such as quantum, climate and materials research. With Otus, we offer scientists from all over NRW a state-of-the-art, world-class infrastructure with which we can provide answers to these questions." In addition to Prof Bauer, Andreas Thomasch, Director and Chief Technology Officer of Lenovo DACH, will also give a welcome address. Prof Dr J?rg Behler from Ruhr University Bochum will speak on the topic of "Modern computer simulations in chemistry: machine learning or quantum mechanics?". Prof. Dr Stefan Schumacher and Prof. Dr Axel Ngonga, both from Paderborn University, will talk about quantum photonics and language models. Afterwards there will be an opportunity to visit the computer centre.
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