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Serverraum Elysium Datacenter
RUB, Marquard
High Performance Computing (HPC) at Ruhr-University
Regional and supra-regional: Research at 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 and thus new findings:
- 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 raw material in the digital age.
Local cluster at the RUB
The central high-performance computing cluster Elysium is available free of charge to researchers from all disciplines at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum data center.
Scientists can calculate highly complex models here quickly and in parallel. They can apply for computing time, which is 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 efficient together
With its central high-performance computing cluster, RUB is one of the Tier 3 centers of the HPC supply pyramid in NRW, i.e. it offers regional supply.
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, particularly in the fields of biology, biochemistry and applied mathematics, at the beginning of 2028.
All universities in NRW can secure computing time on a pro rata basis via a distribution system.
Close cooperation also in the UA Ruhr
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, the Technical University of Dortmund 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.