Gauss Centre for Supercomputing

The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing eV ( GCS) is the merger of three national supercomputing centers in Germany: the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC ) as part of the John von Neumann Institute for Computing ( NIC) in Jülich, the Leibniz -Rechenzentrum ( LRZ ) in Garching near Munich and the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS ).

The primary objective of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS ) is the promotion and support of scientific supercomputing. The GCS supercomputer among the largest and most powerful supercomputers in the world. Since 2012 the three GCS member centers HLRS, LRZ JSC and are installed in each computer systems, which offer computing speeds in the petaflops range. Overall, the GCS has a computing power of more than 10 petaflops, which researchers and developers is by far the most powerful system infrastructure across Europe available from all areas of science and industry representatives.

The GCS is supported by appropriate project funding by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Ministries of Science of the states of Baden -Württemberg, Bavaria and North Rhine -Westphalia.

The chairman of the GCS is Michael M. Resch. Besides it are Heinz -Gerd Conservancy and the Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH ( FZJ), represented by the Managing Director FZJ - Sebastian M. Schmidt and Karsten Beneke, the Board of. Managing Director and Head of the Project Office in Bonn is Claus Axel Müller. The headquarters are located in Berlin.