Supercomputers/Systems/GridKa
Germany · operational · hpc
GridKa
Also known as Grid Computing Centre Karlsruhe
Operated by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology at KIT Scientific Computing Centre (Karlsruhe) .
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Measured performance
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Figures are as last publicly reported for the configuration described below, not a live measurement. Where a system was upgraded in place, the post-upgrade configuration is shown and the earlier one appears in the timeline.
What this machine is made of
One row per supplier relationship. “Supplier at build” is the company that shipped the part at the time; where that company has since been acquired, the parent it rolls up to today is shown beside it. That distinction is what makes ticker-level aggregation possible across a thirty-year dataset.
| Role | Part | Supplier at build | Quantity | Confidence | Source |
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| Accelerator | NVIDIA Tesla V100 Accelerators CUDA (Volta GV100) · 5,120C · 1.53 GHz · 12 nm · 300 W 56 NVIDIA V100 GPUs available in the batch system | NVIDIA | 56 reported | Reported | indico.kit.edu |
| CPU | AMD EPYC 7742 (Rome) CPUs x86-64 · 64C · 2.25 GHz · 7 nm · 225 W Dual AMD EPYC 7742, 196 new worker nodes installed November 2021 | AMD | 392 reported | Reported | indico.kit.edu |
The read
German WLCG Tier-1 centre for particle and astroparticle physics, hosted by KIT's Scientific Computing Center and delivering resources since October 2002. KIT's page (last changed April 2026) states about 740 kHS06 of CPU power, 82 PB of usable disk and about 218 PB of usable tape, with 200 Gb/s to CERN and 400 Gb/s to the German research network; it supports all four LHC experiments plus Belle II, COMPASS, Pierre Auger, IceCube and, since 2023, XLZD, and holds 15 percent of committed Tier-1 CPU. A November 2021 status report from the same group gives the hardware generation then being installed: 196 dual-socket AMD EPYC 7742 nodes with 570 GB RAM and 7 TB NVMe, about 50,000 logical cores and 550 kHS06 in total, 56 NVIDIA V100 GPUs, and 46.4 PB of online disk with a 71 PB tender under way. Core count is left blank because the 2026 page reports only kHS06. It is a distributed high-throughput farm, not an HPL-ranked machine.
Timeline
- 2002-10 First operational source
Site & facility
Change history
- 2026-10-18 Added GridKa (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)