TRUMPF GmbH + Co KG, the high-tech company, signed a cooperation agreement with the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) of the University of Stuttgart. The aim of the agreement is to provide TRUMPF employees with the extensive computing capacities of the HLRS. “This cooperation shows that we in industrial Germany also have a powerful digital ecosystem. With the help of these mainframes, our developers can virtually simulate machine functions even before the first prototype is built and train AI solutions for our systems more quickly. This allows us to innovate more sustainably and efficiently,” says Berthold Schmidt, CTO, TRUMPF.

The ‘Hawk’ supercomputer provided by HLRS has a peak performance of 26 petaflops, which corresponds to 1,000,000 billion computing operations per second. It is one of Europe’s most powerful computers for industry and will be supplemented by its even more powerful successor model, Hunter, with around 39 petaflops at the end of 2024. “With Hawk and Hunter, we can support the further development of technologies at TRUMPF. We are proud that we can continue to contribute to the strengthening and competitiveness of the Stuttgart economic region with our computing power,” said Prof Dr Michael Resch, Director, HLRS. Within the framework of the partnership, the participants also hope to gain joint insights into further possible applications of mainframe computing systems in industry.

Investment in AI & Quantum Computing

For simpler simulations, TRUMPF has its own high-performance computers. However, more complex tasks with higher accuracy can only be performed with supercomputers, such as those located at HLRS. One example is the simulation of quantum computers, which is so computationally intensive that it will be accelerated in the future with the help of the computing capacity of the HLRS. In the future, TRUMPF will also train AI models on the HLRS supercomputers. For several years now, TRUMPF has been offering its customers machine tools that use artificial intelligence to work faster and better. In the future, further solutions will be added to the offering. 

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