NHR@SW

Universität Frankfurt am Main, Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität, Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), Universität Mainz, Universität des Saarlandes

Mainz, Frankfurt, Saarbrücken, Kaiserslautern-Landau

Composite image showing the NHR@SW identity: top left the NHR SW logo, top right a close-up of server LEDs, bottom left the colourful MOGON supercomputer cabinets with NHR@SW branding and university logos, bottom right a long corridor of black server racks with green structural pillars.

NHR South-West (NHR@SW) is a collaboration of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Goethe University Frankfurt, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, and Saarland University. As member of the NHR Alliance, NHR@SW's mission is to accelerate scientific discovery by combining cutting-edge high-performance computing with methodological innovation, expert support, and strong partnerships across disciplines. The HPC systems are operated at Mainz and Frankfurt.

Key Expertise and Profile

  • Simulation and Data Labs for life sciences, molecular systems, and nuclear, particle, and astrophysics
  • Method Labs for performance and programming, including optimization, parallel I/O, GPU computing, and parallel programming
  • AI and quantum computing methods, including machine learning and hybrid quantum-HPC approaches
  • Operating the NHR Computational Physics Center together with PC2 and NHR@KIT
  • NHR@SW's infrastructure provides tens of thousands of CPU cores, GPU resources, multi-petabyte high-performance storage and prototype quantum computing access, enabling data-intensive and compute-heavy workloads. 

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Technical Specifications

Center NameNHR@SW
Total Resources:
# CPU-Cores95 040
# GPUs936
Additional Information
max. job run time [h]504
jupyter notebook available [y/n]y
CPU Resources:
System 1MOGON NHR
CPU-TypeAMD EPYC 7713
# nodes590
# Cores per node128
memory per node [GB]256 - 2048
System 2Goethe NHR
CPU-TypeXeon Skylake Gold 6148
# nodes488
# Cores per node40
memory per node [GB]192
GPU Resources
System 1MOGON NHR
GPUs per node4 x NVIDIA A100
# nodes10
memory per GPU [GB]40
System 2Goethe NHR
GPUs per node8 x AMD Instinct MI210
# nodes112
memory per GPU [GB]64
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