SUPERMUC SUPERCOMPUTER, Leibniz Rechenzentrum, Munich, Germany

The new SuperMUC” system at the The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) was built with IBM System x iDataPlex Direct Water Cooled dx360 M4 servers with more than 150,000 cores to provide a peak performance of up to three petaflops, which is equivalent to the work of more than 110,000 personal computers. IBM says it is the world’s first commercially available hot-water cooled supercomputer. The SuperMUC system is Europe’s fastest computer, and will be used to drive a wide spectrum of research — from simulating the blood flow behind an artificial heart valve, to devise quieter airplanes to unearthing new insights in geophysics, including the understanding of earthquakes.