OpenFieldThe High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart - HLRS) at the University of Stuttgart is one of Europe's premier national supercomputing centers, hosting the Hawk and Hunter supercomputers to power exascale science, engineering simulations, and quantum computing integration.
Founded as Germany's first national supercomputing center in 1996, HLRS operates as a central research institute of the University of Stuttgart and a member of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS). Renowned for its world-class high-performance computing (HPC) platforms, HLRS supports grand-challenge computational science across automotive aerodynamics, climate modeling, fusion energy, biomedical simulation, and exascale AI.
Doctoral and research appointments at HLRS require a master's degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, or computational engineering with a distinguished record. Candidates submit a research proposal addressing parallel algorithms, GPU accelerated computing, or exascale software engineering, and are fully funded through DFG, European Horizon, or industrial partnerships.
Three-year doctoral research placement investigating asynchronous parallel algorithms, dynamic load-balancing, and fault tolerance on heterogeneous GPU-accelerated exascale clusters.
Six-month research internship optimizing scientific simulation codes on Hawk and Hunter supercomputers using modern SYCL, HIP, and CUDA programming frameworks.
Two-year postdoctoral position conducting high-fidelity direct numerical simulation (DNS) and large eddy simulation (LES) for aerodynamic turbulence and combustion modeling.
Twelve-month specialized research appointment investigating the algorithmic coupling of quantum processing units (QPUs) with classical exascale supercomputing nodes.
Applied research fellowship optimizing warm-water direct liquid cooling, waste heat district recovery, and carbon-optimized computational job scheduling for multi-megawatt data centers.
Competitive grant awarded to graduate researchers scaling transformer-based AI foundation models across thousands of GPUs with reduced communication latency.
Director of HLRS & Professor of Supercomputing · High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart
Prof. Dr. Resch is the longstanding Director of HLRS, pioneer in high-performance computing systems, and recipient of the HPCwire Leadership Award in High Performance Computing.
View research profile ↗Head of Scalable Algorithms and Programming Models · Department of Numerical Methods and Libraries
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Glass investigates programming abstractions for exascale systems, scalable sparse linear solvers, and next-generation message passing interfaces.
View research profile ↗Managing Director & Head of Applications and Visualisation · Department of Applications and User Support
Prof. Dr. Koller oversees European research projects at HLRS, specializing in immersive 3D CAVE visualization, urban digital twins, and energy-aware HPC cloud orchestrations.
View research profile ↗University profile compiled from official University of Stuttgart - High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) academic bulletins and institutional directories reviewed on 2026-10-15. OpenField is an independent research guide.