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The Week in Germany: Business, Technology and the Environment November 14, 2007 Germany Becomes World Supercomputer Power
Germany is now in the big league of supercomputers, as its JUGENE (Jülich Blue Gene) supercomputer is the fastest supercomputer in Europe. The huge computer has the processing power of 20,000 standard PCs and is second fastest in the world behind the military supercomputer BlueGene/L, in the US. With its measured computing power (Rmax) of over 167 teraflops (trillion mathematical calculations per second), JUGENE is currently the most powerful computer of the new Blue Gene/P series manufactured by IBM. In Jülich, more than 65,000 processors are in operation connected through an extremely efficient communication network. "The unique thing about our JUGENE is its extremely low power consumption compared to other systems even at maximum computing power", said Thomas Lippert, Director of the Jülich Supercomputing Centre, before he went on to say that "energy efficiency will be the dominant theme in future when it comes to the construction of supercomputers".
Until the official inauguration in February next year, the experts at Jülich will prepare the computer for its first users and optimize all of the processes. Jülich stands out in that it does not just have supercomputers at its disposal but that it also has a highly efficient team of scientists who provide researchers from all over Europe with supercomputer user support. The powerful computer is housed in 16 compact presses, each around the size of a telephone booth, in the computer room in Research Centre Jülich where its predecessors JUMP and JUBL are also kept. The three computers will complement each other to such an extent that every scientific simulation will be able to make use of a suitable tool. The Jülich supercomputers are used for calculations by around 200 European research groups. At Research Centre Jülich, scientists from all disciplines - from materials science and particle physics to medicine and environmental science - are afforded the opportunity to request computing time. An independent panel of experts allocate computing time to the best projects. The acquisition of the supercomputer JUGENE was made possible by Research
Centre Jülich in cooperation with the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia,
the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Helmholtz
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