Strong infrastructure at the research location Cologne

The RAMSES supercomputer is the result of many years of research in the context of interdisciplinary cooperation. In particular, the requirements from the life sciences and medicine, which have resulted from numerous third-party funded projects such as NGSgoesHPC, Smoose and the CRC 1399, have been incorporated into its design. RAMSES is therefore a system that is designed to support these research areas from planning to commissioning.

The successor to CHEOPS also offers considerable improvements for other specialist areas. Above all, research areas based on computationally intensive simulations will benefit from RAMSES: from theoretical astronomy to the digital humanities.

Innovative high-performance computing with secure data for excellent research

The HPC system RAMSES is an integral part of the research infrastructure at the University of Cologne. As the successor system to CHEOPS, it not only performs computing tasks in existing Clusters of Excellence, such as CECAD or ML4Q, but also provides the planned Cluster of Excellence Our Dynamic Universe with a strong basis for complex numerical simulations for exploring the universe right from the start.

From the outset, the system was designed to meet the highest security requirements in genomic research, in which highly sensitive data is used to find cures for rare diseases, for example.  The computing power of RAMSES, coupled with its security architecture and the ITCC's accreditation as a genome computing center, provides a strong foundation for research into the most complex medical and life science problems.

The performance of RAMSES also offers advanced new possibilities in new fields of research, such as ecological genetics in the life sciences (especially botany and zoology). For example, it can be used to study the effects of climate change on the adaptability of organisms more efficiently.