Announcements

VSC-2 will go OUT OF SERVICE
by the end of 2018. [more...]
PRACE MOOCs
Jan 7 - Feb 10, 2019 – Managing Big Data with R and Hadoop – JOIN FREE [more...]
Introduction to Hybrid Programming in HPC @ LRZ (Garching near Munich, Germany)
January 28-29, 2019
PRACE Project Access and Peer Review Process & How to prepare a good PRACE proposal @ UIBK (Innsbruck)
January 21, 2019
Austrian HPC Meeting 2019 – AHPC19
February 25-27, 2019 – REGISTRATION OPEN [more...]
PRACE – Call for Proposals
apply for HPC computing time: Mar 5 - Apr 30, 2019 – 19th CALL FOR PROJECTS (pilots Improved Industry Access Track) [more...]
VSC Training and Education
all courses until June 2019

Welcome to VSC – Vienna Scientific Cluster

The Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC) is a collaboration of several Austrian universities that provides supercomputer resources and corresponding services to their users.

The current flagship of the VSC family is VSC-3. Installed in 2014, it is a throughput-oriented general-purpose Linux cluster with approximately 2,000 compute nodes and a few special-purpose nodes such as GPUs. It is renowned for its innovative oil cooling and unparalleled energy efficiency.

The predecessor system, VSC-2, is operational since 2011 and may still be suitable for some types of jobs.

Information about getting access to VSC and a list of member universities can be found in the main menu at Access.

  

VSC Research Center

The VSC Research Center operates together with the Information Technology Solutions (TU.it) of TU Wien the VSC supercomputer clusters and supports users of the systems. The VSC Research Center is a joint operation of the VSC partner universities and is, from a point of view of organization, attached to the TU Wien.

The center is devoted to facilitate the use of high performance computing (HPC) clusters, especially with a view of efficiency. [read more about the activities of the VSC Research Center]

The VSC School Seminar is our Training and Education program (http://vsc.ac.at/training).

 

Austria is a member of PRACE

Austria has joined Opens external link in new windowPRACE the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe. This opens up new opportunities in the field of supercomputing for researchers and students in Austria.

PRACE – Call for Proposals (apply for HPC computing time)
Austria joined PRACE on 11 July 2018
Opens external link in new windowPRACE – The Scientific Case for Computing in Europe 2018-2026,               Opens external link in new windowTraining,   Opens external link in new windowfor Students
Opens external link in new windowPRACE in Austria (ACOnet),       Opens external link in new window"PRACE in Austria" mailing list,                Opens external link in new windowHPC Access

 
 
VSC Brochure 2018

Forschungsprojekte am Vienna Scientific Cluster (german)

 
VIEW-ONLINE PDF: VSC Brochure 2018 – Forschungsprojekte (german)

 
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Tunable metal-insulator transition by application of an electric field in Ag2BiO3. [He/Franchini]

VSC Success Stories

Nature Communications Paper:
Controlling quantum interactions in a single material

Performing computer simulations on the Vienna Scientific Cluster an international team led by Cesare Franchini (University of Vienna) has demonstrated that a tunable metal-insulator transition is possible in a single material. [read more...]