Retired systems
MACH-2¶
MACH-2 was a massively parallel shared memory supercomputer that implemented a global shared memory model. It was installed in 2017 and was operated by the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz until 2023.
VSC-3¶
VSC-3 retired in May 2021. Its extension VSC-3+ went out of service in October 2022.
VSC-3 was a throughput-oriented general-purpose Linux cluster with approximately 2800 compute nodes and a few special-purpose nodes such as GPUs. It was renowned for its innovative oil cooling and unparalleled energy efficiency. VSC-3 was installed in summer 2014 at the Arsenal TU building in Vienna and got a significant extension called VSC-3+ in June 2018.
VSC-2¶
VSC-2 went out of service by the end of December 2018.
VSC-2 was installed in May 2011 at the Arsenal TU building in Vienna . It consisted of 1314 nodes, each with 2 processors (AMD Opteron 6132 HE, 2.2 GHz, 8 cores) with QDR InfiniBand.
VSC-1¶
VSC-1 went out of service by the end of March 2015.
VSC-1 was set up in 2009 with an investment of almost 2 million Euros. It was located in the Freihaus building of TU Wien and ranked 156th in the November 2009 TOP500 list.