Center for Scientific Computing

The CSC was founded as a joint initiative of the natural science departments at Goethe University and the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS). The CSC's function is to operate the university's high-performance computers.

The CSC is an institution that promotes all facets of scientific computing for the benefit of research. In addition to algorithm development, computer architecture, tool development, and language extensions for vectorization, this also includes the provision of two high-performance computers (HLR) with different performance levels. The Tier2 system Goethe-NHR is operated in the NHR-SW network, which also includes JGU Mainz, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, and Saarland University.
The center has two different objectives for operating the HLR:

• the HLR as a research object (development of energy-efficient computer systems, computer design) and
• the computer as a research infrastructure for projects with a heterogeneous usage profile (natural and life sciences, medicine, economics, and social sciences).