{"id":854,"date":"2022-07-12T16:39:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T14:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hpc\/?page_id=854"},"modified":"2025-07-17T09:52:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T07:52:53","slug":"cbrz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hpc\/en\/cbrz\/","title":{"rendered":"CBRZ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Welcome to the Container-based High Performance Computing Center!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-slider-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hpc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/813\/2022\/07\/HSUper_icon-1000x450.jpg\" data-credit=\"Hauke Preu\u00df\" alt=\"HSUper\" class=\"wp-image-884\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the following, you find information on the Container-based High Performance Computing Center (CBRZ) at <abbr title=\"Helmut Schmidt Universit\u00e4t\">HSU<\/abbr> which is administrated by the chair for high performance computing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any questions, feel free to contact <a href=\"mailto:info-cbrz@hsu-hh.de\" rel='nofollow'>info-cbrz@hsu-hh.de<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For Newbies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Which compute systems are available at CBRZ?<\/strong><br>Currently, the CBRZ hosts\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.hpc.hsu-hh.de\/documentation\/hsuper\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hpc\/hsuper\/\">supercomputer HSUper<\/a>, which features O(580) compute nodes for compute- and data-intensive workloads. HSUper is currently ranked 339 in the TOP500 list (June 2022).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the Interactive Scientific Computing Cloud (<a href=\"https:\/\/portal.hpc.hsu-hh.de\/documentation\/iscc\/\" rel='nofollow'>ISCC<\/a>).\u00a0The ISCC aims to fill the gap for users with specific needs that cannot be containerized as well as users with workloads that cannot be satisfied by existing local machines and do not yet require the entire power of HSUper.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>How can I get access to the computational resources?<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If you are a member of <abbr title=\"Helmut Schmidt Universit\u00e4t\">HSU<\/abbr>: Please apply for HSUper access using the following <a href=\"https:\/\/tickets.hsu-hh.de\/kix\/customer.pl?Action=CustomerTicketMessage;DefaultSet=149\" rel='nofollow'>form<\/a> (available on campus\/VPN only, login with <abbr title=\"Rechenzentrum\">RZ<\/abbr> credentials) or this&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tickets.hsu-hh.de\/kix\/customer.pl?Action=CustomerTicketMessage;DefaultSet=167\" rel='nofollow'>form<\/a> for the ISCC. Or navigate the <a href=\"https:\/\/tickets.hsu-hh.de\/kix\/customer.pl?Action=CustomerTicketTemplates;PortalGroupID=47\" rel='nofollow'>ticket system website<\/a> to find further forms: <em>Ticket Templates \u00bb CBRZ \u00bb CBRZ: HSUper Access Registration<\/em> or <em>CBRZ: ISCC Resources &amp; Administration Access Registration<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you are not a member of <abbr title=\"Helmut Schmidt Universit\u00e4t\">HSU<\/abbr> and if you are linked to <abbr title=\"Helmut Schmidt Universit\u00e4t\">HSU<\/abbr> through a collaborative project with <abbr title=\"Helmut Schmidt Universit\u00e4t\">HSU<\/abbr> partners: please file a guest account form together with the respective <abbr title=\"Helmut Schmidt Universit\u00e4t\">HSU<\/abbr> partner in charge. Afterwards, apply for HPC access (same workflow from here as for <abbr title=\"Helmut Schmidt Universit\u00e4t\">HSU<\/abbr> members).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In all other cases: please <a href=\"mailto:info-cbrz@hsu-hh.de\" data-type=\"mailto\" data-id=\"mailto:info-cbrz@hsu-hh.de\" rel='nofollow'>contact the CBRZ team<\/a> to check for HPC access possibilities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For Users<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>More information on computational resources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><script>\tvar sosereDefaults = {\"allowfullscreen\":true,\"fit\":\"contain\",\"transition\":\"crossfade\",\"loop\":true,\"autoplay\":\"3000\",\"stopautoplayontouch\":true,\"keyboard\":true,\"nav\":\"thumbs\"}<\/script><div class='sosere--wp' data-ids='885,884'data-link='file'data-itemtag='dl'data-icontag='dt'data-captiontag='dd'data-columns='0'data-size='large'data-width='1000'data-auto='false'data-max-width='100%'data-ratio='1.3333333333333'><div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-854 gallery-columns-0 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hpc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/813\/2022\/07\/HSUper_icon-1.jpg' data-full='https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hpc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/813\/2022\/07\/HSUper_icon-1.jpg' data-credit=\"Hauke Preu\u00df\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hpc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/813\/2022\/07\/HSUper_icon-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"HSUper\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hpc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/813\/2022\/07\/HSUper_icon-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hpc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/813\/2022\/07\/HSUper_icon-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hpc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/813\/2022\/07\/HSUper_icon.jpg' data-full='https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hpc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/813\/2022\/07\/HSUper_icon.jpg' data-credit=\"Hauke Preu\u00df\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hpc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/813\/2022\/07\/HSUper_icon-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"HSUper\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hpc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/813\/2022\/07\/HSUper_icon-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hpc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/813\/2022\/07\/HSUper_icon-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>More information on HPC competences (workshops, tutorials, material, <abbr title=\"et cetera\">etc.<\/abbr>) can be found on the websites of the <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.hpc.hsu-hh.de\/\" rel='nofollow'>HPC Portal<\/a>, established by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hpccp\" data-type=\"URL\">project hpc.bw<\/a> funded by <a href=\"https:\/\/dtecbw.de\/home\" rel='nofollow'>dtec.bw \u2013 Digitalization and Technology Research Center of the Bundeswehr<\/a>. dtec.bw is funded by the European Union \u2013 NextGenerationEU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CBRZ Infrastructure<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>HSUper is located in 4 x 20&#8243; containers. 10 racks currently contain:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>571 liquid-cooled computing nodes,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>5 fat-memory (1TB) liquid-cooled computing nodes,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>5 GPU nodes (two NVIDIA Tesla A100 PCIe 40GB HBM2 per node),<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4 GPU nodes (8 NVIDIA L40S per node)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 PB BeeGFS storage,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 PB CEPH storage,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>networking &amp; uninterruptible power supply hardware,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>additional hardware like the ISCC (see below).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>One rack contains up to 92 computing nodes and 5 switches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each node consists of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2 (dual-socket) Intel Xeon Scalable Platinum 8360Y, 36 Core @ 2.40 GHz<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>256 GB RAM (fat &amp; L40S GPU nodes: 1TB)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>NVIDIA InfiniBand HDR100 (non-blocking)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A heat pump system enables sustainable reuse of hot liquids for building heating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Interactive Scientific Computing Cloud (<a href=\"https:\/\/portal.hpc.hsu-hh.de\/documentation\/iscc\/\" rel='nofollow'>ISCC<\/a>) consists of 13 hosts in total, with the same hardware specifications as HSUper, except for the interconnect, which is capable of 50Gb\/s over Ethernet instead of InfiniBand HDR100. The ISCC is located in the same container building as HSUper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Regular hosts<\/strong>: 10 hosts each equipped with 256 GB RAM and 2 Intel Icelake sockets; each socket features a Intel(R) Xeon (R) Platinum 8360Y processor with 32 cores, yielding a total of 64 cores per host.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>GPU hosts:<\/strong>&nbsp;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2 hosts each equipped with 1 TB RAM, 2 Intel Icelake sockets, 8 NVIDIA A30 (24GB) GPUs and 2TB local scratch storage; each socket features a Intel(R) Xeon (R) Platinum 8360Y processor with 32 cores, yielding a total of 64 cores per host.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 host equipped with 2 TB RAM, 2 Intel Icelake sockets, 8 NVIDIA L40S (48GB) GPUs and 2TB local scratch storage; each socket features a Intel(R) Xeon (R) Platinum 8360Y processor with 32 cores, yielding a total of 64 cores per host.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">HPC-related Projects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In the following, you find a list of projects that are related to CBRZ and its computational resources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hpccp\" data-type=\"URL\">hpc.bw: Competence Platform for Software Efficiency and Supercomputing<\/a> (<abbr title=\"Professor\">Prof.<\/abbr> Neumann, supported by dtec.bw)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dtecbw.de\/home\/forschung\/hsu\/projekt-mast\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/dtecbw.de\/home\/forschung\/hsu\/projekt-mast\" rel='nofollow'>MaST: Macro\/Micro-Simulation of Phase Decomposition in the Transcritical Regime<\/a> (<abbr title=\"Professor\">Prof.<\/abbr> Neumann, supported by dtec.bw)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SuMo: Sustainability for Molecular Simulation in Process Engineering (<abbr title=\"Professor\">Prof.<\/abbr> Neumann, supported by DFG)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"71\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hpc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/813\/2022\/07\/dtec.bw_EU-Foederhinweis_RGB_vertikal-300x71.png\" data-credit=\"dtec.bw \/ EU\" alt=\"dtec.bw is funded by the European Union \u2013 NextGenerationEU.\" class=\"wp-image-1350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hpc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/813\/2022\/07\/dtec.bw_EU-Foederhinweis_RGB_vertikal-300x71.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hpc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/813\/2022\/07\/dtec.bw_EU-Foederhinweis_RGB_vertikal-1024x241.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hpc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/813\/2022\/07\/dtec.bw_EU-Foederhinweis_RGB_vertikal-768x181.png 768w, https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hpc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/813\/2022\/07\/dtec.bw_EU-Foederhinweis_RGB_vertikal-1100x259.png 1100w, https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/hpc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/813\/2022\/07\/dtec.bw_EU-Foederhinweis_RGB_vertikal.png 1418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The CBRZ is funded by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dtecbw.de\/\" rel='nofollow'>dtec.bw<\/a>&nbsp;&#8212; Digitalization and Technology Research Center of the Bundeswehr. dtec.bw is funded by the European Union &#8212; NextGenerationEU<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Container-based High Performance Computing Center! 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