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Marvin's 2nd Birthday - The Science Slam at the End of the Universe!

Join us from March 17–19 as we celebrate our HPC community with a special anniversary event featuring Dr. Georg Hager, an exciting science slam, a hands-on workshop, and an interactive hackathon. Three days of learning, creativity, and collaboration around high-performance computing — don’t miss it!

High Performance Computing at the University of Bonn

Welcome to High Performance Computing (HPC) at the University of Bonn. This website is your central hub for everything concerning HPC.

Here you can find information on the central HPC systems at the University of Bonn, possibilities to interact with the HPC community and our partners (like HPC.NRW), training opportunities, and articles on important topics such as publication policies. There is also information on our consulting services and what to do if you want to use other HPC systems beyond Uni Bonn.

This website is the shared work of both our HPC-related groups: The HPC team at the University Computer Centre (HRZ) and the High Performance Computing and Analytics Lab (HPC/A-Lab).

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~500 Registered users

Within the first twelve months, 495 users have successefully registred for Marvin. Our users possess multidisciplinary backgrounds, from diverse departments and share a comman goal of securely handling their data for safety purposes.

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+100 Research groups

Since our large cluster Marvin was made available, 102 research groups have joined and been active. Each group leader has to confirm the registration of every new user in his group and own the management,  but can delegate adminstration to a group member upon request.

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+1000 Support cases

Our teams have successefully completed arround 1000 support cases on both clusters Marvin and Bender. We strive to provide fast, effective and accurate support services that ranges from technical and administrative to scientific, in addition to training courses.

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+45 Courses

Currently, 46 courses have been held with more to come starting this semesters. Our courses focus on using HPC clusters but, we are expanding our offerings to include diverse contents so that attendees with various backgrounds can benefit from each session.

Latest News
HPC courses now online for the winter semester 2025-26
Registration via eCampus now open for all courses
HPC courses now online for the summer semester 2025
Registration via eCampus now open for all courses
Marvin visitor tour at Dies Academicus
Dear HPC users, if you always wanted to see Marvin for yourself, here is your chance: we will give a visitor tour for Marvin at the Dies Academicus on December 4, 2024 at 10:00 AM. If you want to participate, please register by sending an e-mail to training@hpc.uni-bonn.de
Reminder: Upload your Marvin SSH Key to FreeIPA
Dear Marvin users, remember that we will turn off password-based SSH login on Marvin soon. If you have not already done so, please upload your SSH key to FreeIPA. See our guide here: https://wiki.hpc.uni-bonn.de/en/marvin/key-based-login
Upcoming Events
Python on HPC Clusters (Winter 2025-26)
HRZ, Wegelerstr. 6
Whole Day
Do you use Python in your scientific work? Do you run Python code on HPC clusters, or simply on your laptop? This course will teach you some of the ...
Intro to Programming with R (Winter 2025-26)
HRZ, Wegelerstr. 6
Whole Day
This course is intended for people who start doing scientific computing with R, particularly on HPC clusters, but not limited to those. You do not need to ...
Intro to Programming with Python - 3rd course (Winter 2025-26)
HRZ, Wegelerstr. 6
Whole Day
Are you completely new to programming, or switching to Python from another language? Do you want to write scientific code with Python? Then this course ...
Marvins 2nd Birthday
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Whole Day
Join us from March 17–19 as we celebrate our HPC community with a special anniversary event featuring Dr. Georg Hager, an exciting science slam, a hands-on ...
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