Planned:
QPACE project in the framework of the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 55 "Hadron Physics from Lattice QCD" (reference)
Feb. 2008:
2005-2008:
Development clusters:
PC cluster, clusters of graphic cards
24.07.2000:
Installation of the second 64 nodes DS10 of ALiCE with 616 MHz.
27.01.2000:
Dedication Ceremony for the Wuppertal Alpha-Linux-Cluster-Engine ALiCE at the Institute für Angewandte Informatik (IAI), Bergische-Universität-Gesamthochschule Wuppertal
12.11.1999:
Installation of the first 64 nodes DS10 of ALiCE.
18.06.1998:
Cooperation contract with the University of Bielefeld (ISKOS) for a corporate utilization of the Bielefeld und Wuppertal parallel computers.
30.12.1997:
Testinstallation of a Sun Enterprise 450 of the company Sun Microsystems (4 Processors, 2.4 GFlops peak-performance) for distributed numerical algorithms financed through the funds of an Academic Equipment Grant.
30.10.1996:
Cooperation contract (CWLC) with the Columbia University, New York, (working groups Prof. N. Christ and Prof. K. Schilling) for a corporate work on the Columbia TERAComputer. In April 1997 Wuppertal received a beta-board (64 nodes, 3GFlops peak-performance) of this machine.
Nov 1996:
Submission of an offer by DESY for an extension of the cooperation with the Bergische Universität in the field of Supercomputing for another three years (1997-2000).
09.09.1996:
The Bergische Universität Wuppertal, DESY, the company QSW Ltd. and the University of Bielefeld make an agreement ACOMO (Association for Computing and Modelling), concerning the provision of a b-Testboard of the TERAcomputer APEmille by QSW Ltd. in summer 1997.
10.10.1994:
Installation and beginning of operation of the parallelcomputer Quadrics Q4 (with 32 nodes) by Alenia Spazio (financed from funds of the EU-Project "Stochastic Simulations of Quantum Field Theories" and the Bergische Universität).
24.03.1994:
Upgrade of the CM5 to the CM5-E.
01.10.1993:
Beginning of the DFG-Graduiertenkolleg "Feldtheoretische und Numerische Methoden in der Elemementarteilchen- und Statistischen Physik" in the Fachbereich Naturwissenschaften I
04.11.1992:
Visit from Bundesbildungsminister Prof. Ortleb
29.10.1992:
Installation and beginning of operation of the CM5-LD (TMC)
16.06.1992:
First European CM-Users Meeting: Science on the Connection Machine, Wuppertal.
13.12.1990:
Installation and beginning of operation of the mass storage DATA VAULT CM-DV-10 (TMC), which is financed by the DFG Project "Hadronische Matrixelemente"
14.10.1990:
Inauguration of the CM2 by Ministerpräsident Johannes Rau
23.08.1990:
Delivery and beginning of operation of the CM2-8k-FS (Thinking Machine Corporation TMC).
Half of the CM2 is on loan from TMC.
02.07.1990:
Installation of the first SUN computer.
