Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich Supercomputing Centre
With around 4300 employees, Forschungszentrum Jülich is devoted to multidisciplinary research and development in the areas of energy, environment, information technology, and health. To support the research center's scientific mission, the Jülich Supercomputing Centre runs one of the most powerful scientific computer centers in Europe. Applications hosted there include simulations mostly from physics and chemistry, environmental research, and to an increasing extent also from computational biology. The institute's research and development activities concentrate on the methodological advancement of supercomputing and the operation of supercomputers as scientific large-scale devices. Being an essential component of its scientific mission, research on tools for parallel programming has a long tradition in Jülich, resulting in two decades of experience in developing and using performance-analysis tools for parallel and distributed applications. 
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RWTH Aachen University, Center for Computing and Communication
RWTH Aachen University is the largest university of technology in Germany and one of the most renowned technical universities in Europe, with around 28,000 students, more than the half of which in engineering. The University's Center for Computing and Communication (CCC) offers a wide range of computing and communication services for all institutes, employees and students. On the one hand, the CCC provides equipment which is too expensive or too difficult to operate for institutes. On the other hand, we offer methodical support and advice, for example on questions of virtual reality, high performance computing and parallelization. In the area of high performance computing the centre is working together with Sun Microsystems to promote the use of parallel computers in the scientific and engineering area. The centre also is cooperating with other universities in Northrhine-Wesphalia to build a cooparative computing network (RV-NRW). Target is to build a competence network and to share expensive resources. More
Technische Universität Dresden, Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing
The Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH) is a central scientific institution of the Dresden University of Technology with a focus on performance evaluation and optimization. With its interdisciplinary orientation it supports other faculties and institutions in their research and education. Support and consulting is provided to users from Saxonian universities, surrounding research institutes like Max Planck Society and industrial partners. With the installed compute and storage facilities ZIH is a unique environment for data-intensive computing in bio-informatics and other scientific areas. The installed versatile supercomputer infrastructure was designed with a special focus on balanced system architecture with high bandwidth between processors, to the file system and the tape silo. Beyond the support of local users ZIH cooperates with other HPC centers in Germany and world-wide and is an established competence center for parallel computing and software tools. More
University of Tennessee, Innovative Computing Laboratory
Founded in 1989, the Innovative Computing Laboratory (ICL) is a world leading, academic research lab with a focus on enabling technology. Located at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, ICL's goal is to provide the high performance computing community with applications and tools for solving science's most challenging problems. Originating with a single focus on numerical linearly algebra, ICL now conducts research in three additional areas: distributed computing, performance analysis and benchmarking, and asset management. Recognizing the future challenges of HPC in these areas and taking initiatives to address them have not only allowed ICL to grow but have also allowed the laboratory to demonstrate the range and diversity of its research. As such, ICL is currently engaged in more than 15 significant research projects as part of the U.S. HPC research agenda. More
Steering Board
| Felix Wolf (Spokesman) | Forschungszentrum Jülich |
| Christian Bischof (Deputy Spokesman) | RWTH Aachen University |
| Jack Dongarra | University of Tennessee |
| Thomas Lippert | Forschungszentrum Jülich |
| Wolfgang E. Nagel | Technische Universität Dresden |
