The University of Tartu HPC centre’s job number counter just hit 50 million jobs. Coincidentally, it happened on the 15th anniversary of the first job run on the cluster.

The University of Tartu HPC centre cluster performed its first calculation on January 12, 2009. Creating a computer centre was necessary because the capacity and number of existing computers did not satisfy researchers’ needs. The first computer cluster, or “computer farm”, consisted of 336 computing cores and was named Steam Engine (Aurumasin). The control machine was called Steam (Aur), the storage device was called Fog (Udu), and the computing nodes were called Boilers (Katlad). The theoretical peak speed of the Steam Engine was 3.36 TFLOPS. The computing cluster was open for all university-affiliated researchers and students who needed to solve problems requiring large-scale calculations.

The development of the HPC centre gained speed in 2016 when it moved administratively from the IT department to the Institute of Computer Science. By now, it has grown into the largest HPC centre in the Baltics. Researchers, the public sector and companies are offered a complete data processing solution that includes access to computing resources, data storage and user support. If necessary, help is provided to install the software. All operations have been made as convenient and secure as possible. All this simplifies the work and helps to save time and money.

The University of Tartu HPC centre lends you a helping hand when you need results quickly or when the data is so large that additional space is required to store it.