AMD Powers CARA Supercomputer from NEC in Dresden

The DLR German Aerospace Center dedicated its new CARA supercomputer in Dresden on February 5, 2020. With 1.746 Petaflops of performance on the Linpack benchmark, the AMD-powered system from NEC is currently rated #221 on the TOP500.  “With its almost 150,000 computing cores, CARA is one of the most powerful supercomputers available internationally for aerospace research,” said Prof. Markus Henke from TU Dresden.

Dr. Norbert Kroll from DLR to Keynote Industrial Day at ISC 2017

Today ISC 2017 announced that the conference Industrial Day on June 20 will feature a keynote by Dr. Norbert Kroll of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). With a day-long program, Industrial Day will address challenges in the industrial manufacturing, transport, and logistics sectors.

Video: High-Throughput Processing of Space Debris Data

“Space Debris are defunct objects in space, including old space vehicles (such as satellites or rocket stages) or fragments from collisions. Space debris can cause great damage to functional space ships and satellites. Thus detection of space debris and prediction of their orbital paths are essential for today’s operation of space missions. The talk shows the Python-based infrastructures BACARDI for gathering and storing space debris data from sensors and Skynet for high-throughput data processing and orbital collision detection.”