Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences has just celebrated its 50th birthday by launching a supercomputer called SuperMUC which is the fastest supercomputer in Europe.
Supercomputer called SuperMUC was built by ' the big blue ' IBM x 86 based supercomputer is the fastest in Europe and the number four in the world's fastest.
As reported by from ArsTechnica (27/07/2012), sophisticated supercomputers from Germany used the operating system SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) which is a Linux distro from Germany which has now been acquired by Novell.
The specification is quite amazing supercomputer SuperMUC. SuperMUC powered by Intel Xeon processors 18.432 E5-2281 8-core with 2 speed, 7GHz, for a total amount of core or core processing in the SuperMUC reach 147.456 core and memory of 324 terabyte supported as well as capable of producing up to 3 petaflop performance.
SUSE party said that supercomputer SuperMUC comes a unique cooling system which inspired ileh human blood circulation which is capable of significantly reducing heat and power consumption. Supercomputers consume power until SuperMUC alone 3422.67 kilowatts.
Use operating system SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) is due to Linux from Germany has a strong influence in Europe and also has strong ties with the scientific community of Europe so that proximity to SUSE makes it easy to collaborate.
"Since 1998, we have been relying on SUSE for sector performance of our computers in the LRZ. At that time, it is important for us because it provides the technical features of SUSE not included in other GNU/Linux distributions. "
"But what is also important is around geographically, direct connection to the development team and product management in SUSE and quick support response time. It still is a huge benefit for us and why all our high-performance computers and most other systems running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, "said Dr. Arndt Bode, head LRZ researcher.
Operating system SUSE Linux Enterprise Server runs on one-third of the top 25 supercomputers in the world.
Arif s.Driessen is the Editorial, Lifestyle, for Digital Works @ The Driessen Post.
