Based in Hamberg, Germany DKRZ or Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH is high performance climate computing site with a long history of supercomputer deployments. An early user of CDC Cyber systems the site got its first Cray-2 system in November 1988. Following this a Cray-YMP4E Â followed in the early ’90s. Â By 1995 the site had moved on to a Cray C916 with attached T3D.
Cray Chips 03/11/1988 notes :
The next CRAY-2 system to be shipped was to Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum
(climatology center), Hamburg, formerly the Max Planck Institute for
Meteorology: Serial 2012, worth $12 million. A note from an early 1988
field report: “DKRZ will build a new computer room for the Cray-2. . . . The reser-
voir should be split in the middle of the height. Otherwise it is not possible to
get it in. The installation is on the 15th floor.” Â … also noted …
A Max Planck research institute in Oberpfaffenhofen Bavaria received its first
CRAY system in 1979, Serial 13 CRAY-1, the first Cray Research system in Germany.
The site also originated these pictures showing the install, and removal of the Cray-2 and installation of the C90
The Cray-2, believed to be SN2012 is now to be found ( with its trousers down ) at Deutches Technic Museum in Berlin. With video hereÂ
Some Cray Channels snippings for the site ..
