For code development, small runs, pre- and postprocessing, the following hardware is available at the institute:
- Local Computing Cluster
- 2240 cores Intel Xeon E5 CPUs
- 4608 GB RAM (distributed)
- 1024 GB RAM (in the frontend)
- Infiniband networking
- 450TB File Server
- Desktop workstations with 6- and 8-core Xeon CPU, Nvidia Quadro GPU, 128-512GB RAM
For large production runs with more than 1 billion grid points extensive experience is available with High Performance Computing systems like the SuperMUC petascale Computer.
We have a student room with 5 Terminals and a separate Student Cluster with 128 cores for project work.
For student projects and 3D visualization of flow structures a Dual Extruder 3D printer is available.