Leibniz-Rechenzentrum Westseite Herbst 2012

The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) () is a supercomputing centre on the

Campus Garching The Campus Garching () is a campus of the Technical University of Munich and a number of other research institutes, located around 10 km north of Munich in Garching. At the same time, it constitutes a district of the city. With more than 7 ...

near

Munich Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...

, operated by the

Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities () is an independent public institution, located in Munich. It appoints scholars whose research has contributed considerably to the increase of knowledge within their subject. The general goal of th ...

. Among other IT services, it provides

supercomputer A supercomputer is a type of computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instruc ...

resources for research and access to the (MWN); it is connected to the

Deutsches Forschungsnetz Deutsches Forschungsnetz ("German Research Network"), usually abbreviated to DFN, is the German national research and education network (NREN) used for academic and research purposes. It is managed by the scientific community organized in the vol ...

with a 24 Gbit/s link. The centre is named after

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (or Leibnitz; – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat who is credited, alongside Sir Isaac Newton, with the creation of calculus in addition to ...

. It was founded in 1962 by

Hans Piloty Hans Piloty (November 1, 1894 – August 12, 1969) was a German electrical engineer and communications engineer. Life Hans Jakob Piloty descended from an upper middle-class Munich family of artists and scholars. He began studying electrical eng ...

and Robert Sauer as part of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the host for several world leading supercomputers (HLRB, HLRB-II, SuperMUC).

SuperMUC

The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre operated

SuperMUC SuperMUC was a supercomputer of the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Bavarian Academy of Sciences. It was housed in the LRZ's data centre in Garching near Munich. It w ...

, which was the fastest European supercomputer when it entered operation in 2012 and was ranked #9 in the

TOP500 The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computing, distributed computer systems in the world. The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a year. The first of these ...

list of the world's fastest supercomputers. It has since been superseded by the more powerful SuperMUC-NG.

References

External links

* * Research institutes in Germany Supercomputer sites {{Germany-org-stub