Supermuc
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The SuperMUC is the name of a new supercomputer of the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum
(Leibniz Supercomputing Centre) in Garching near Munich which will provide a sustained computing power in the Petaflop/s regime. It will be the successor of the Höchstleistungsrechner Bayern II (HLRB II). The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre will become a european centre for supercomputing. In order to house the extended hardware, the infrastructure of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre will be more than doubled. Additional buildings for the hardware and office space are under construction.
The new supercomputer will be run by the Germany's Bavarian Academy of Science's Leibniz Supercomputing Centre and will be available for European researchers to use to probe the frontiers of medicine, astrophysics and other scientific disciplines. It will be fully operational in 2012. (The MUC suffix is borrowed from the Munich airport code).
The SuperMUC will have more than 110,000 cores and a peak performance of about 3 Petaflop/s (=1015 FLOPS
). The main memory will be 320 Terabyte (=1012 Bytes) together with 12 Petabyte (=1015 Bytes) hard disc space. The hardware will be based on the Xeon-Architecture . The system will use 14,000 Intel Xeon processors running in IBM System x iDataPlex servers. It will also use a new form of cooling that IBM developed, called Aquasar, that uses hot water to cool the processors, a design that should cut cooling electricity usage by 40 percent, IBM claims.
Leibniz-Rechenzentrum
The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre is an European supercomputing centre in Garching near Munich. The centre provides supercomputer resources for research and access to the Munich Scientific Network ; it is connected to the Deutsches Forschungsnetz with a 10 Gbit/s link...
(Leibniz Supercomputing Centre) in Garching near Munich which will provide a sustained computing power in the Petaflop/s regime. It will be the successor of the Höchstleistungsrechner Bayern II (HLRB II). The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre will become a european centre for supercomputing. In order to house the extended hardware, the infrastructure of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre will be more than doubled. Additional buildings for the hardware and office space are under construction.
The new supercomputer will be run by the Germany's Bavarian Academy of Science's Leibniz Supercomputing Centre and will be available for European researchers to use to probe the frontiers of medicine, astrophysics and other scientific disciplines. It will be fully operational in 2012. (The MUC suffix is borrowed from the Munich airport code).
The SuperMUC will have more than 110,000 cores and a peak performance of about 3 Petaflop/s (=1015 FLOPS
FLOPS
In computing, FLOPS is a measure of a computer's performance, especially in fields of scientific calculations that make heavy use of floating-point calculations, similar to the older, simpler, instructions per second...
). The main memory will be 320 Terabyte (=1012 Bytes) together with 12 Petabyte (=1015 Bytes) hard disc space. The hardware will be based on the Xeon-Architecture . The system will use 14,000 Intel Xeon processors running in IBM System x iDataPlex servers. It will also use a new form of cooling that IBM developed, called Aquasar, that uses hot water to cool the processors, a design that should cut cooling electricity usage by 40 percent, IBM claims.
External links
- Rechnen und Heizen: Neuer Supercomputer für Garching bei br-online.de, 13. Dezember 2010
- "PRACE Announces 'SuperMUC' System for LRZ"