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
Methods	Parallel programming
	Performance analysis and optimization
	Correctness analysis
	Artificial Intelligence
	Modeling & simulation
	Data science & machine learning
	Visualization
	Security & highly sensitive data
Operation	Monitoring
	Accelerators
	CPU architectures & interconnects
	Storage/file systems
	User software installation
	Research data
	System software & HA solutions
	Workload management
	User & project management
	Courses and workshops
	Interactive services, cloud/grid-computing, virtualization
Subjects	Economics
	Medicine/Genetics/Bioinformatics
	Physics
	Mathematics
	Earth science
	Chemistry
	Engineering
	Computer science