HPC: bwForCluster successfully launched

Yesterday, the festive Launch of two bwForClusters "BinAC (Location Tübingen, for Bio-Informatics and Astrophysics) and NEMO (Location Freiburg, for Neuroscience, Elementary Particle Physics and Microsystem-Engineering) were launched. The Event was postively reported on in media.

Poster session on the occasion of the launch of NEMO and BinAC

Previous to the launch, the first user convention of NEMO took of NEMO took place. This forms part of the governance concept of the cluster. Parallelly, colleagues from Tübingen were available for questions about their cluster. A joint press conference with representatives of the represented subject Areas of NEMO, with rectors and pro-rectors, and with a ministry representative took place.

The official launch took place in Otto-Krayer-Haus. Researchers also had the opportunity to inform themselves about all five Baden-Württemberg cluster ressources during a coffee break.

Representatives of Intel and Nvidia gave an insight into current Technology for HPC use.