Consortium

The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, LRZ) is part of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, BADW). LRZ is a central site for large scale data archiving and backup. It has been an active player in the area of high performance computing for over 20 years and provides computing power on several different levels. It offers its services to universities in Germany and to publicly funded research institutions, like Max-Planck and Helmholtz Institutes. In 2012, LRZ will put into service the PRACE Tier-0 supercomputer “SuperMUC” with a peak performance of 3 Petaflop/s and more than 320 Terabytes of main memory. In addition to the SuperMUC system, LRZ is operating a number of general purpose and specialized clusters.

LRZ has more than 150 employees, about 30 of which are working in national or international research projects. LRZ participates in education and research and supports the adaptation of suitable algorithms to its supercomputer architectures. This is carried out in close collaboration with international centres and research institutions, especially with the Competence Network for Technical and Scientific High Performance Computing (KONWIHR). LRZ operates a powerful communication infrastructure called Munich Scientific Network (MWN) and is a competence centre for data communication networks. LRZ has a longstanding and internationally known expertise including research in security, network technologies, IT-Management, IT-operations, data archiving, high performance- and grid computing. LRZ is member of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS), the alliance of the three national supercomputing centres in Germany (JSC-Jülich, HLRS Stuttgart, LRZ-Garching). The LRZ is also closely integrated in research in the field of High Performance Supercomputing through its own work groups and through collaboration with the Bavarian Competence Network for Technical and Scientific High Performance Computing “KONWIHR” as well as through the Munich Computational Sciences Centre “MCSC” – a collaboration of the Technical University of Munich (in particular LRR-TUM), the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, the Max-Planck Society and its High Performance Computing Centre (RZG), and the LRZ.

LRR TUM is linked to LRZ and described bellow.

LRR TUM carries out research in the field of parallel computer architectures and tools since 25 years as part of the Informatics department of TUM.

LRR TUM includes two professorships: Prof. Dr. Arndt Bode (also regular member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences) and Prof. Dr. Michael Gerndt. Recent activities of LRR TUM are: MMI the Munich Multicore Initiative (testing and implementing of new multi and manycore architectures and tools such as Autopin, Energy Efficiency and performance tools). Recently A. Bode conducted the Exascale Co-design Workshop at Dagstuhl, together with A. Hoisie , W. Nagel and Kranzlmüller).

Prof. Dr. Arndt Bode and Dr. Herbert Huber.