Center for Computational Sciences and Simulation

Since mid-2010, CCSS – the Center for Computational Sciences and Simulation – has been offering approximately 30 research groups from the Faculties of Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Mathematics and Physics a platform on which to exchange contacts, experiences and methods in computational sciences and scientific computing. The two classical pillars of natural sciences and engineering, theory and experiment, have been joined in recent decades by a third pillar, numerical experiments. The University of Duisburg-Essen covers the entire scientific computing spectrum, from fundamental development of algorithms to application of advanced algorithms and parallel computing technologies to address current scientific issues.

CCSS was founded in July 2010 to bring these different aspects together and at the same time to promote and strengthen interdisciplinary cooperation in these fields. Commissioning of the Cray XT6m supercomputer in May/June 2010 helped to create a working environment which is actively used by many members of CCSS in their research. Performing more than 26 trillion calculations per second, in June 2010 the UDE’s Cray XT6m was one of the TOP 500 fastest supercomputers in the world.