The SCC cluster was set up in Q4 2013 (Phase 1) and was first only available for supporting groups. After extending the cluster to an university-wide infrastructure platform SCCKN in Q3 2014 (Phase 5), the cluster is now available for all groups of the University Konstanz.
Time table:
| Sep. 24, 2013 | End of public tender (Ausschreibung) for phase 1 | |
| Phase 0 | Nov. 2013 | Initial setup (installation and testing) |
| Phase 1 | Dec. 4, 2013 | Installation in P5N with one frontend server, one storage server and 16 compute nodes, fine tuning |
| Phase 2 | Dec. 11, 2013 | Added 8 compute nodes |
| Phase 3 | Jan.-Mar. 2014 | Added 11 compute nodes |
| Phase 4 | May 2014 | Included all workstations into SCC cluster queuing |
| Jul. 25, 2014 | End of public tender (Ausschreibung) for SCCKN | |
| Phase 5 | Sep. 2014 | Extension to an University-wide infrastructure plattform (SCCKN) |
| with additional nodes (4 x 256 GB, 12 x 64 GB, 2 x GPU) and a second storage server | ||
| Nov. 5, 2014 | Kick-Off Meeting SCCKN (Slides) | |
| Phase 6 | Dec. 9/10 2014 | Installation in N4 including nodes from old HPC Clusters |
| Phase 7 | Dec. 2014 | Added 12 nodes (with Haswell CPUs) |
| Phase 8 | End of 2014 | Included the old HPC clusters of the Theoretical Physics department into the queuing system of SCC |
| Phase 9 | Aug. 20, 2015 | Optimized performance and stability of the storage system of /work and /home/scc. |
| Phase 10 | Aug. 20, 2015 | Installed a new backup server for all simulation data. All data spaces will be backup'ed here in the next weeks. |
Phase 11 | Jan. 21, 2016 | Added 8 nodes (with 12 core Haswell-CPUs) |
| Phase 12 | Jan. 22, 2016 | Added 8 Sandy Bridge nodes from old clusters |
| Phase 13 | Feb. 2, 2016 | Added 4 Haswell nodes with 512 GB RAM each |
| Phase 14 | Feb. 24, 2016 | Added 2 Haswell nodes with two K80 GPUs |
| Phase 15 | May 27, 2016 | Updated external network connection to 4x10 Gbit/s |
| Phase 16 | Jan. 2017 | Software upgrade of all server and nodes including software modules (see here for details) |
| Phase 17 | Feb. 08, 2017 | Added 12 Broadwell nodes with 512 GB RAM each and 4 Broadwell nodes with 128 GB RAM |
| Phase 18 | Feb. 20, 2017 | Added nodes from the older clusters HPC and HYDRA and collected them in the queue "old" |
| Phase 19 | June 2017 | Extended backup server for archiving data |
| Phase 20 | July 2017 | Welcome our new website |
| Phase 21 | Dec. 2017 | Added latest Intel Parallel Studio XE Cluster |
| Phase 22 | Mar. 2018 | Added new storage server and extend archive to increase capacity |
| Phase 23 | Mar. 2018 | Added 28 new Skylake SP nodes (each 2x16 Cores, 192 GB RAM) |
| Phase 24 | Jun. 2018 | Added Xeon Phi node (S7210, 192 GB, 64 Cores) |
| Phase 25 | Nov. 2018 | Added new GPU-node with 2xTesla V100 |
| Phase 26 | Jan. 2019 | Added 2xTesla V100 |
| Phase 27 | Oct. 2019 | Added new frontend scc2 (2x20 Cores, 768 GB RAM) |
| Phase 28 | Nov 2019 | Add 8 HPC nodes (2xIntel Gold 6248, 40 Cores each) and 5 GPU nodes (AMD EPYC, 8xRTX 2080Ti each). Update installation and modules to openSUSE 15.1. |
| Phase 29 | Sep. 2021 | Added 4 HPC nodes (each 2xAMD 64 Core). Update installation to openSUSE 15.3. Installed Jupyterhub. |
| Phase 30 | Feb. 2023 | Added 8 HPC nodes (each 2xAMD 64 Core). Update installation to openSUSE 15.4. Updated Jupyterhub and installed CoCalc. |
| Phase 31 | Nov. 2023 | Added two new storage server (sccdata4 and sccback2) with 640 TB storage and 1024 GB RAM each. |