en.Wedoany.com Reported - The University of Hamburg has announced that it will renovate the building housing its regional computing center. Located in the Rothenbaumchaussee and Schlüterstraße districts of Hamburg, the building was found to have severe structural damage and contamination during a routine inspection. The university has not yet disclosed the specific cause of the damage or the estimated cost of the renovation work.
Despite the damage to the building, some facilities remain operational. A spokesperson for the University of Hamburg told DCD that the computing center is maintaining partial operations because the necessary technical infrastructure is still functioning. The university is coordinating with relevant authorities on project financing and scheduling. The repairs will involve removing and replacing concrete on the building's load-bearing exterior walls, and steel structures will help stabilize the building until the renovation is completed. Built in the 1960s, the building holds special historical and cultural significance, and the university will continue to pursue long-term preservation and utilization goals, advancing necessary planning, reinforcement, and renovation measures within its capabilities.
The regional computing center hosts several large-capacity computing systems, including the high-performance computing (HPC) cluster "Hummel-2," which supports complex astrophysical, chemical, and computer science simulations. According to reports, this water-cooled HPC cluster consists of 32 general-purpose GPU cores and 178 compute nodes, with a total storage capacity of 5.2 PB. Professor Dr. Sebastian Gerling, Chief Digital Officer of the University of Hamburg, stated in 2024 that the long-term goal of the project is to reuse approximately two-thirds of the computer waste heat by discharging cooling water, which could save 10% to 20% of carbon dioxide emissions.
The city of Hamburg also hosts other HPC clusters, including the second such system delivered last month by former Atos subsidiary Bull to client Airbus, which is housed in a modular data center in the city. According to DataCenterMap, Hamburg is a medium-sized data center market in Germany, hosting a total of 30 private data centers. These include a 4.4MW facility operated by European data center company Penta Infra, which opened last year and features 26,900 square feet (2,500 square meters) of server room space, taking two years to complete.
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