Virtual HPC Tour: A peek inside the HLRS Hawk supercomputer

HPE and AMD collaborate to provide a rare inside look into one of Europe’s most powerful supercomputers

AMD has launched a never-seen-before 360 virtual tour of the flagship supercomputer ‘Hawk’ at the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) of the University of Stuttgart, Germany. The recently inaugurated Hawk system is among the fastest supercomputers worldwide and the fastest general-purpose system for scientific and industrial computing in Europe.

The Hawk system consists of 44 racks provided by over 5,600 compute nodes, summing up to over 720,000 compute cores of 2^nd Gen AMD EPYC processors. It also packed with an Apollo System from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The supercomputer is designed to advance applications in energy, climate, mobility and health, with a peak performance of approximately 26 petaflops (26 quadrillion floating-point operations per second).

Take a look at the Virtual Tour below, which includes an interview with Dr. Bastian Koller, Managing Director at HLRS, who explains how the system works and its applications.