SuperMUC
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| Operators | Leibniz-Rechenzentrum |
|---|---|
| Location | Garching,Germany |
| Architecture | 19,252Intel XeonCPUs |
| Operating system | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server |
| Memory | 340TB |
| Storage | 15PB |
| Speed | 2.90petaFLOPS |
| Ranking | TOP500:#44, November 2017 |
| Website | www |
SuperMUCwas asupercomputerof theLeibniz Supercomputing Centre(LRZ) of theBavarian Academy of Sciences.It was housed in the LRZ's data centre inGarchingnear Munich. It was decommissioned in January 2020, having been superseded by the more powerfulSuperMUC-NG.
History
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SuperMUC (the suffix 'MUC' alludes to the IATA code ofMunich's airport) is operated by the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, a European centre for supercomputing. In order to house its hardware, the infrastructure space of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre was more than doubled in 2012. SuperMUC was the fastest European supercomputer when it entered operation in the summer of 2012[1]and in 2015 was ranked No. 20 in theTop500list of the world's fastest supercomputers.[2] SuperMUC serves European researchers of many fields, including medicine, astrophysics, quantum chromodynamics, computational fluid dynamics,computational chemistry,life sciences, genome analysis and earth quake simulations.
Performance
[edit]SuperMUC is anIBM iDataPlexsystem containing 19,252Intel XeonSandy Bridge-EPandWestmere-EXmulti-core processors(155,656 cores), for a peak performance of about 3PFLOPS(3×1015FLOPS). It has 340TBofmain memoryand 15PBof hard disk space. It uses a new form of cooling that IBM developed, calledAquasar,that uses hot water to cool the processors. IBM claims that this design saves 40percent of the energy normally needed to cool a comparable system.[3][4]
SuperMUC is connected to powerful visualization systems, which consist of a large 4K stereoscopic powerwall as well as a five-sided CAVE artificial virtual reality environment.
References
[edit]- ^"Top 500 list June 2012".TOP500.org.Retrieved2014-12-12.
- ^"Top 500 list June 2015".TOP500.org.Retrieved2024-05-19.
- ^"IBM builds 3 petaflop computer for Germany - SuperMUC could be world's fastest system".Pcadvisor.co.uk. 2012-09-05.Retrieved2012-09-12.
- ^"IBM Newsroom - 2010-12-13 Leibniz-Rechenzentrum entscheidet sich für neuen IBM Supercomputer mit Intel® Xeon® Prozessoren der nächsten Generation für anspruchsvolle Forschungsanwendungen - Deutschland".03.ibm. 2010-12-13. Archived fromthe originalon December 18, 2010.Retrieved2012-09-12.
External links
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- "System description of SuperMUC at the LRZ website"
- Rechnen und Heizen: Neuer Supercomputer für Garchingbei br-online.de, 13. Dezember 2010
- "PRACE Announces 'SuperMUC' System for LRZ"