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Serverraum Elysium Datacenter
Das Bild zeigt des Serverraum des HPC-Netzwerks Elysium im Datacenter der RUB
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High Performance Computing (HPC) at Ruhr University Bochum

Regional and supraregional: Research at Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) is supported by central high-performance computing capacities. This opens up new possibilities, but also requires expertise and exchange of experience.

Fields of Application in Computer-Aided Research

In many disciplines, research projects cannot do without high-performance computing. With its high computing power, it enables highly complex, high-resolution calculations and simulations, thereby yielding new insights:

  • Newly designed materials and simulations in the engineering sciences
  • Identifying disease patterns and the behavior of biomolecules in biology
  • Machine learning methods in the neurosciences and humanities
  • Understanding rare linguistic phenomena in philology
  • Open source models for AI (see also the AI pilot project “Open-Source-KI.nrw”)

Computing power is the decisive resource in the digital age.

– NRW Science Minister Ina Brandes on the fourth HPC state concept

Local Cluster at RUB

The central high-performance computing cluster Elysium is available free of charge to researchers from all disciplines at the data center of Ruhr University Bochum.

Scientists can use it to calculate highly complex models quickly and in parallel. Computing time is allocated on request and distributed fairly among the research areas.

The specifications of the cluster and all associated services and information are listed on the HPC website of IT.Services.

More powerful together

With its central high-performance computing cluster, RUB is one of the Tier 3 centers of the HPC supply pyramid in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), thus providing regional coverage.

As an active member of the HPC.NRW competence network and part of the University Alliance Ruhr, RUB can look forward to further capacities in the field of scientific high-performance computing:

The NRW Ministry of Science and the Digital University NRW have named the University Alliance Ruhr as the fourth NRW location for high-performance computing as part of their fourth HPC state concept. The consortium leader is the University of Duisburg-Essen, which will offer scientific high-performance computing at the beginning of 2028, particularly for the fields of biology, biochemistry, and applied mathematics.

All universities in North Rhine-Westphalia can secure a proportionate share of computing time via a distribution system.

Close cooperation also in the UA Ruhr

Ruhr-Universität Bochum, TU Dortmund University and the University of Duisburg-Essen also work closely together in the field of research data management. This cooperation at the level of the University Alliance Ruhr provides Bochum researchers with additional services.

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