The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences recently celebrated its 50th anniversary by launching the SuperMUC, the world’s fourth most powerful supercomputer. The system, which was built by IBM and runs SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, has the distinction of being the single fastest x86-based supercomputer and the fastest supercomputer in Europe.
A statement issued by SUSE says that the supercomputer has a unique cooling system inspired by human blood circulation that significantly reduces energy consumption. The supercomputer is reportedly designed so that some of the energy can be recaptured and used to heat buildings at the LRZ campus. A report on Slashdot indicates that the computer has the SuperMUC has 147,456 processor cores capable of delivering a total of 3 petaflops of processing power and 324 terabytes of memory.
SUSE, which has operated as an independent business unit of Attachmate since the latter acquired Novell in 2010, has a major physical presence in Germany and has long had strong ties with the European scientific community. LRZ head researcher Dr. Arndt Bode says that SUSE’s proximity makes it easy to collaborate.
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