TUM Germany Wins Highest Linpack Award on RSC system at SC15 Student Cluster Competition

Today Russia’s RSC Group announced that Team TUMuch Phun from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) won the Highest Linpack Award in the SC15 Student Cluster Competition. The enthusiastic students achieved 7.1 Teraflops on the Linpack benchmark using an RSC PetaStream cluster with computing nodes based on Intel Xeon Phi. TUM student team took 3rd place in overall competition within 9 teams participated in SCC at SC15, so as only one European representative in this challenge.

ExaHyPE Project to Develop Exascale Software for Geophysics and Astrophysics

A new EU research project called “ExaHyPE” is developing open-source software for exascale-class supercomputers. As an international project coordinated at TUM in Munich, ExaHyPE (“An Exascale Hyperbolic PDE Engine”) seeks to develop novel software, initially for simulations in geophysics and astrophysics.

GCS Sponsors TUM Team for SC15 Student Cluster Challenge

The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing is sponsoring a team from the Technische Universität München for the SC15 Student Cluster Competition at SC15.