Consultation Examples
Intensive Consultation
HPC.NRW can also help you with more complex questions about the use of HPC systems in research. These could be, for example, questions about the performance of software used or parallel programming. Contact us at helpdesk@hpc.nrw.
Competence Network
Contacts to many experts can be established via the competence network. An example list of competences can be found further down on this page.
We are happy to answer questions, for example about
- General questions on high-performance computing
- Performance Engineering
- Parallel programming languages and models
- Application and allocation of HPC resources
- HPC workflows
- HPC software environment
- Numerical methods and (simulation) software
- Data science
- Hardware architectures
- HPC file systems
As user of one of the participating HPC centers, you can contact your local support team directly. In any case, you can send your questions to helpdesk@hpc.nrw.
Consultation on Complex Subjects
In addition to the basic support offers through the HPC.NRW competence network, challenging research projects are also supported with the help of a thematic oriented consultation cluster in the area of high-performance computing. This makes the expertise of the entire competence network accessible to all researchers in NRW.
For a thematic consultation request regarding your research project, please write an email to helpdesk@hpc.nrw. Please describe your problem and, if necessary, refer to the areas of expertise listed here.
Area | Expertise | Coordination |
Methods | Parallel programming | Siegen / Aachen |
Performance analysis and optimization | Aachen | |
Correctness analysis | Aachen | |
Modeling & simulation | Dortmund | |
Data science & machine learning | Paderborn | |
Visualization | Duisburg-Essen | |
Security & highly sensitive data | Köln | |
Operation | Monitoring | Düsseldorf |
Accelerators | Bielefeld / Paderborn | |
CPU architectures & interconnects | Köln | |
Storage/file systems | Münster | |
User software installation | Münster | |
Research data | Bochum | |
System software & ha solutions | Wuppertal | |
Workload management | Köln | |
User & project management | Düsseldorf | |
Courses and workshops | Bochum | |
Interactive services, cloud/grid-computing, virtualization | Wuppertal | |
Subjects | Wirtschaftswissenschaften | Siegen |
Medizin/Genetik/Bioinformatik | Bonn | |
Physik | Bielefeld / Paderborn | |
Mathematik | Dortmund | |
Geowissenschaften | Bonn | |
Chemie | Paderborn | |
Ingenieurwissenschaften | Duisburg-Essen / Aachen | |
Informatik | Duisburg-Essen / Siegen |