LRZ 'twin cube', home of the SuperMUC. October 2012
The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (German: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities is a European supercomputing centre in Garching near Munich. Among other IT services, it provides supercomputer resources for research and access to the Munich Scientific Network (MWN); it is connected to the Deutsches Forschungsnetz with a 24 Gbit/s link. The LRZ operates SuperMUC, which was the fastest European supercomputer when it entered operation in 2012 and is currently ranked #14 in the Top500 list of the worlds fastest supercomputers.[1]
