The HPC Consulting group, part of the NHR center, provides their expertise in research and scientific services in the field of supercomputing. The HPC consultants offer scientific and technical guidance for the users of the NHR complex "Lise" to implement large-scale scientific projects. The overall goal of this support work is an optimal utilization of the HPC resources.
Each of the HPC consultants is an expert in a science domain like chemistry, earth sciences, engineering, physics, or life sciences, and brings in his research experience to support users solving their scientific questions on the HPC system. The support work includes helping scientists in optimizing their codes for the HPC architecture, improving the management of large data sets in a multi-tiered HPC environment, and the installation and documentation of community codes. Furthermore, each HPC consultant pursues research in his own field of expertise and in HPC related interdisciplinary domains.
Within the National High-Performance Computing Alliance (NHR), the HPC consultants foster the high-performance computing in the German science community. For that purpose, the HPC consultants organize regular tutorials and workshops for the dissemination of various HPC-related topics into the science community.