Name in original language
Nationales Hochleistungsrechnen (NHR)
Initiative overview
The National High-Performance Computing Alliance (Nationales Hochleistungsrechnen, NHR) was established in 2020 as Germany's integrated national HPC infrastructure strategy, replacing the previous Gauss Centre for Supercomputing structure with a broader, application-oriented network. The NHR consists of 9 centres across German universities and research institutions (including ZIH Dresden, PC² Paderborn, NHR@KIT Karlsruhe, HLRS Stuttgart, LRZ Munich, Göttingen, Darmstadt, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, and Berlin), each specialising in particular application domains. Total federal funding is approximately EUR 62.5M per year (split equally between the Federal Government and the Länder). Centres provide CPU and GPU compute resources, storage, application support, training and education (including for AI/ML workloads), and consulting services for researchers and, to an increasing degree, for industry. The NHR supports AI training, inference, and simulation workloads and is increasingly aligned with BMFTR's AI compute infrastructure strategy. NHR centres also contribute to pan-European HPC initiatives through EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. Target audience: German academic researchers, public research institutions, and increasingly industrial R&D teams.
