2025-09-29: New GPUs and Partitions
The HPC Gateway initiative of the Helmholtz society aims to opens access to the Helmholtz Association's world-leading HPC infrastructure for businesses and connects them with AI experts. The initiative particularly supports projects in the areas of AI, digital twins, and HPC-based innovations. See Helmholtz press release for more information.
New GPU hardware has been funded by HPC Gateway, and became now part of the Maxwell cluster. The hardware is specifically serving industry to support and initiate AI activities. The hardware comprises 8 nodes with 4xH200-NVL and 1.5TB of ram each. Have a look at the page for the hpcgwgpu partition for more details. The hpcgwgpu partition is dedicated to co-operations with industry and not available otherwise.
The partition comgpu makes the precious hardware available to all Maxwell users. Jobs in the comgpu partition are (not suprisingly) subject to preemption (by jobs in the hpcgwgpu partition). However, we expect the preemption-rate to be much lower than in the allgpu-partition, particularly in the early phase of the HPC Gateway project.
Please note: due to the nature of the HPC Gateway project, only software allowing commercial use is available in on HPC Gateway hardware. Tools like Matlab, Mathematica, Ansys, IDL or similar are not available in partitions hpcgwgpu or comgpu.
Acknowledgements of the Maxwell cluster and - if appropriate - the HPC Gateway project in your publications would be greatly appreciated.