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- Depending on the nature of your enquiry, please contact us in the first instance via email using one of our two support addresses.
- If you would prefer to contact us by telephone, you will find all our contact details on our Team page.
- Our usual office hours are between 9.00 am and 5.30 pm. If we are unavailable, you can always reach us by email.
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Alongside theory and experimentation, numerical simulation has for some time now formed the third pillar of the scientific discovery process. Scientific computing, with the aid of Computing Science, harnesses the tools of numerical mathematics to address the specific research questions of a specialised discipline.
The University of Oldenburg also provides its researchers with resources for scientific computing. Currently, the IT services department operates cluster systems for HPC services with a total of around 20,600 processing cores and 145 TB of main memory. In total, the systems achieve a throughput of approximately 1.1 PFlop/s (CPU) and 2.0 PFlop/s (GPU).
Various scientific applications (e.g. MATLAB, R, Python, etc.) and numerical libraries (e.g. BLAS, LAPACK, FFTW, etc.) are available on the cluster. In addition, a number of development environments (compilers, MPI, etc.) for in-house developed programmes are installed on the cluster. Alongside a complete list of all available applications, you can also find plenty of general guidance on the correct use of the cluster in the HPC Wiki.
The Scientific Computing team is available to assist you with software installations, project implementation or any other enquiries. If required, please send an email detailing your enquiry to . Alternatively, you can find our contact details in the right-hand column of this website. There you will also find a link to the IT services helpdesk, through which you can apply for an HPC account. A brief guide to this process can be found here.
A meeting of user representatives takes place regularly (approximately every two months) to facilitate the exchange of information regarding cluster operations. A list of all user representatives and meeting minutes can be found on the wiki.
Trends in HPC usage over time
The growing importance of a central high-performance computer is evident from the usage statistics since 2011. The number of research groups actively using the HPC cluster each year has risen from 16 to over 70, whilst the number of active users has risen from 60 to over 400. And whilst just over 10 million computing hours were used in 2011, the figure now stands at over 100 million.