Hunter and Herder will be ready in 2025 and 2027 respectively
In the coming years, Germany will receive two new supercomputers, one of which will offer performance in excess of 1 ExaFLOPS.
The University of Stuttgart and Hewlett Packard Enterprise have announced an agreement under which the Hunter supercomputer will be built in 2025, and the Herder Exascale system will be ready in 2027.
Both systems will be powered by the latest AMD Instinict MI300A accelerators. Let's remember that this is a giant hybrid processor with 24 Zen 4 cores, a GPU with 14,592 stream processors and 128 GB of HBM3 memory.
The total cost of the two supercomputers will be 115 million euros. Hunter will replace the current flagship supercomputer Hawk. It will include 136 HPE Cray EX4000 nodes and offer 30 PFLOPS of performance. But Herder will be able to boast a performance of over 1 ExaFLOPS, although there is no exact data yet.