COMPASS is the COMputer laboratory for Parallel Algorithms and Stochastic Simulations. It belongs to the Interdisciplinary Center of Applied Informatics and Scientific Computing (IZ II).
Its main focus are forefront computing methods and their applications on high-performance parallel computers for research and teaching.
COMPASS is centered around the parallel high-performance computer ALiCEnext and its development cluster computers. Research is performed in the fields of Theoretical and Experimental Particle Physics and Mathematics.
COMPASS plays an important role for teaching in the Master program Computer Simulation in Science.

The documentation of the COMPASS laboratory is located at https://pleiadesbuw.github.io/compass/.