Hardware specs, access, registration and status for bwForCluster NEMO 2 in Freiburg.
Research Cluster for Neuroscience, Elementary Particle Physics, Microsystems Engineering and Materials Science (NEMO)
NEMO 2
bwForCluster NEMO 2
Hardware specs, access, registration and status for bwForCluster NEMO 2 in Freiburg.
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General-purpose HPC
Available to all researchers and students in Baden-Württemberg without project proposal.
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The University of Freiburg operates bwForCluster NEMO 2 as part of bwHPC, the state-wide high-performance computing initiative of Baden-Württemberg. bwHPC provides access to compute clusters and storage infrastructure for research and teaching across all universities in the state.
NEMO 2 is available for researchers in the communities: Neuroscience, Elementary Particle Physics, Microsystems Engineering and Material Sciences. The complementary bwUniCluster 3.0 (at KIT) is available to all researchers and students in Baden-Württemberg without project proposal.
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The statewide academic license agreement for MathWorks products at Baden-Württemberg universities expires on March 31, 2026. There will be no general MathWorks license available on NEMO2 specifically. Universities and other clusters may handle this differently. Please consider using open-source alternatives or contact us if you hold your own license.
An SSH configuration issue on the login nodes has been fixed. SSH keys stored in local authorized_keys files are no longer accepted. This behavior was never intended - please use SSH keys configured in login.bwidm.de instead.
Over the holiday period, we’re increasing queue limits to 10,000 jobs while reducing cluster capacity for energy savings. Normal operation resumes automatically on January 7, 2026.