SuperMUC

In order to house its hardware, the infrastructure space of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre was more than doubled in 2012.

[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.

SuperMUC is an IBM iDataPlex system containing 19,252 Intel Xeon Sandy Bridge-EP and Westmere-EX multi-core processors (155,656 cores), for a peak performance of about 3 PFLOPS (3 × 1015 FLOPS).

IBM claims that this design saves 40 percent 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.