The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) announced that its member centre High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) successfully completed the installation of HPC system “Hornet.” The new HLRS supercomputer, a CRAY XC40 system which delivers a peak performance of 3.8 PetaFlops, has been declared fully operational and will be available for its scientific and industrial usership as of immediately. HLRS’s new Cray XC40 system is based on the new Intel Xeon processors, formerly code-named “Haswell,” and the Cray Aries system interconnect. In its current configuration state, Hornet consists of 21 cabinets hosting 3,944 compute nodes, which sums up to a total of 94,656 compute cores. The system’s main memory capacity is 493 Terabyte. Users will specifically benefit from the now quadrupled storage space the HLRS supercomputing infrastructure provides: 5.4 Petabyte of file storage with an Input/Output speed in the range of 150GB/s are available to meet the performance challenges of today’s most demanding HPC users, which come from a wealth of fields ranging from the automotive and aerospace research and industries to medicine and life sciences, astrophysics and geophysics, amongst others. To read further, please visit http://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/new-hpc-system-installed-hlrs/.