SuperMUC
| Company type | Supercomputer |
|---|---|
| Industry | High-performance computing |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Defunct | January 2020 |
| Successor | SuperMUC-NG |
| Headquarters | Garching near Munich , Germany |
| Parent | Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) |
SuperMUC was a supercomputer managed by the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), part of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Situated within LRZ's data facility in Garching near Munich, it was retired in January 2020 and succeeded by the more advanced SuperMUC-NG.
History
The name SuperMUC derives from the IATA code for Munich Airport and was operated by LRZ, a prominent supercomputing institution in Europe. To house this system, LRZ more than doubled its infrastructure capacity in 2012. When it became operational in mid-2012, SuperMUC held the title of Europe's fastest supercomputer and was ranked 20th worldwide on the 2015 Top500 list. It facilitated research initiatives across various fields such as medicine, astrophysics, quantum chromodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, chemistry, life sciences, genome sequencing, and seismic modeling.
Performance
SuperMUC consisted of an IBM iDataPlex architecture incorporating 19,252 Intel Xeon processors based on the Sandy Bridge-EP and Westmere-EX designs, totaling 155,656 processing cores. The system achieved a maximum computational speed close to 3PFLOPS (3×1015 floating-point operations per second), equipped with 340TB of RAM and 15PB of data storage capacity. It utilized IBM's innovative Aquasar hot-water cooling solution, which lowered energy requirements for cooling by about 40% compared to traditional cooling methods.
For visualization purposes, SuperMUC was paired with sophisticated tools including a large-scale 4K stereoscopic powerwall and a five-sided CAVE virtual reality setup.
References
External links
- "SuperMUC system details at the LRZ website"
- Rechnen und Heizen: Neuer Supercomputer für Garching at br-online.de, December 13, 2010
- "PRACE Announces 'SuperMUC' System for LRZ"