current projects

heterogenous
computing
  - Intel oneAPI Center of Excellence (2022-2024)
- BMBF GreenHPC SeqAn@FPGA (2022-2025)
- BMBF GreenHPC NAAICE (2022-2025)

interests

supercomputing & life sciences   - acceleration of life science applications
- large-scale quantum-chemical calculations
- parallel computing in quantum chemistry
- fast complex molecular simulations
today's local systems   - HLRN-IV: Lise, Bull/Intel Cluster
- NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA with 8x Vector Engines
- 2x servers with Intel Optane NVRAM
- FPGA development systems: 2x Intel PAC D5005 (Stratix 10), Intel PAC /w Arria 10, Pico Computing
- GPU development systems: Nvidia A100 and P100, AMD MI200x
past systems   - 2016-2019: Cray TDS, 80 Intel Xeon Phi (KNL) nodes + 10 Cray DataWarp nodes
- 2014-2019: HLRN-III: Cray XC40/30
- 2010s @ ZIB - FPGA systems: Convey HC-1, Cray XD1 /w FPGAs, SGI Altix 450 /w RC100 FPGA blades
- 2010s @ ZIB - GPU systems: Supermicro Server with 4x NVIDIA Fermi M2090 GPUs
- 2010s @ HLRN - Many-core systems: Intel Xeon Phi Cluster, Intel TrueScale, 4x nodes
- 2010s @ HLRN-II: SGI ICE 8200+, SGI UV
- 2000s @ HLRN-I: IBM p690 constellation
- 1990s @ ZIB: Cray XMP, YMP, J90, T3D, T3E
- 1990s @ HUB: Convex C1, Alliant FX2800

past projects

heterogenous
computing
  - MANY-CORE HPC: Research Center for Many-core High-Performance Computing [2013-] (INTEL)
- ORKA-HPC:  OpenMP for reconfigurable heterogeneous architectures
- HighPerMeshes:  Domain-specific programming and target-platform-aware compiler infrastructure for algorithms on unstructured grids
   more info: >>> www.highpermeshes.info

- ENHANCE: Enabling Heterogeneous Hardware Acceleration using Novel Programming and Scheduling Models [2011-2013] (BMBF)
- Accelerator technology evaluation: MIC, GPGPU, CellBE, FPGA, SIMD
- Application acceleration, >>>  OpenAccelerator.org
- Reconfigurable Computing, >>>  OpenFPGA, Inc.
applications in
distributed systems
  - MoSGrid: Molecular Simulation Grid - eScience services for molecular simulations [2009-2012] (BMBF)
- PneumoGrid: eScience services for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [2009-2012] (BMBF)
- services@MediGRID: eScience services for biomedical applications (BMBF, finished)
- MedInfoGrid: eScience services for medical data management (BMBF, finished)
- MediGRID: eScience infrastructure for biomedical & life science (BMBF, finished)
- GRIDCHEM: COST Action D37 - Grid computing in chemistry (finished)
- workflows in life science application scenarios
threading (fold recognition)   3D protein structure prediction from 1D sequences
(part of the BCB project)