Research Infrastructure
SCC operates large-scale research equipment and large-scale research infrastructures at KIT Campus North and Campus South to enable researchers at KIT, in the country, and beyond to perform high-performance and high-throughput computing, mass data storage, and data visualization for scientific projects and studies.
HoreKa was among the 15 most powerful computers in Europe when it was commissioned in mid-2021. It can provide a computing power of approximately 17 PetaFLOPS. The system is available to scientists from all over Germany.
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As a Tier 1 center of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG), GridKa is responsible for processing, formatting, and archiving raw data from the LHC and future HL-LHC experiments. Other WLCG centers rely on GridKa as a data source and data archive.
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KIT scientists have access to the extensive online storage in the Large Scale Data Facility. It is intended in particular for the storage of scientific measurement data and simulation results of data-intensive scientific disciplines.
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The Baden-Württemberg university or universal cluster, i.e. bwUniCluster 2.0, is a parallel computer for a comprehensive basic supply of Baden-Württemberg universities and colleges with high-performance computing capacity.
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