Key visual for the project. It is a rather abstract image of a tight mesh of connected knots making waves with different parts being either more or less in focus. The visual simultaneously looks like a typical representation of a neural network as well as the open sea where hammerhead sharks - the namesakes of the HammerHAI project - reside.

HammerHAI – An AI Factory for Manufacturing, Engineering, and Research

Consortium

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The High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) is a research institution affiliated with the University of Stuttgart and a founding member of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing, the alliance of Germany’s three national supercomputing centers. HLRS will lead and manage HammerHAI, providing computational and storage infrastructure and resources, including all necessary software, access models, and information security measures.

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Located in Garching near Munich, the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) is a leading HPC and HPDA facility offering national and European-level supercomputing resources to a diverse scientific community across disciplines like astrophysics, engineering or life sciences. It supports users with specialized HPC code portability and scalability expertise while ensuring highly energy-efficient operations, exploring quantum technologies and integrating AI into large-scale HPC systems – complemented by an extensive education programme in HPC, AI, and big data.

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The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), one of Europe’s largest scientific institutions, merges top-tier education with cutting-edge research, while also focusing on innovation. As coordinator of the Smart Data Innovation Lab, KIT’s TECO research group brings more than a decade of expertise in trustworthy AI and data-driven methods for SMEs to the HammerHAI consortium.

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The Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG) serves as computing facility of the University of Göttingen and IT competence centre of the Max Planck Society. It operates three TOP500 supercomputers and is a member of the NHR Alliance, providing high-performance computing to German universities. GWDG hosts the national AI service centre KISSKI for critical and sensitive infrastructures, which researches and enables access to AI, especially for SMEs and startups.

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SICOS BW, Stuttgart, was founded in 2011 by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the University of Stuttgart to facilitate access to simulation and high-performance computing as well as to data analytics and AI, especially for SMEs. The company provides cross-industry, customized consulting and support while also connecting businesses with suitable funding programs.