KFA / FZJ in Juelich – A German Supercomputer site

Situated in the west of Germany between Köln and Aarchen close to the French & Dutch borders is KFA Juelich now known as Forschungszentrum Jülich a supercomputer centre that has hosted Cray systems and others. Introducing themselves with the words ..

The Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) at Forschungszentrum Jülich operates and develops supercomputers of the highest performance level. The JSC goes back to the first national centre for supercomputing in Germany, which was founded in 1987, and with the Jülich Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS) it is continuing the long tradition of scientific computing at Jülich.

this site has stretched the capabilities of top performing Computer systems for decades.

Historical researchers on this organisation should note that there has been a couple of name changes along the way with records showing up as “KFA” and “FZJ” … from Wikipedia

The Society for the Promotion of Nuclear Physics Research (GFKF) was renamed Nuclear Research Centre Jülich (or KFA for short, which was taken from the German). Seven years later, it was converted into a limited liability company (GmbH), and in 1990, it was named Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (or FZJ for short). The partners of Forschungszentrum Jülich are the Federal Republic of Germany (90%) and the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (10%)

** A big thanks to Juergen K. for the photos and recollections.**


Gallery of site engineer installation pictures – including Cray-1 and later YMP-D and  later M94 with T3E


YMP SN1011 detailed photos :

 


Systems listed in Cray-History.net listings

Systems listing

The first T90 listed may be a duplicate ?????


Partial Top 500 listing for Site FZJ

Note that some of these system lines can be considered duplicates when machines are upgraded.

 


Some Cray Channels snipping for the site ..

 

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