idw – Informationsdienst Wissenschaft
Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
NOTE: INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS NEWS RELEASE IS EMBARGOED UNTIL 11 A.M. (Central European Time) WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 2007.
Jülich / Dresden, 27 June - in the TOP500 list published today, which contains the fastest computers in the world, German Gauss Centre for Supercomputing holds top positions. The supercomputer HLRB-II at Leibniz-Rechenzentrum is the fastest computer in Germany and number 10 in the world. Research Centre Jülich is 2nd place in Germany with its JUBL supercomputer and 18th place worldwide. Research Centre Jülich has set itself the goal of installing a supercomputer with 220 teraflops by autumn, which will see it become the number 1 in Europe and achieve a place amongst the top three in the world. The delivery contract was signed last Monday. Together the partners of Gauss Centre for Supercomputing want to build one of the planed European Supercomputing Centre in Germany till 2009.
Supercomputer HLRB-II provides a computing power of 62 teraflops, in other words 62 trillion arithmetic operations per second. Taken as a whole, Research Centre Jülich boasts two of the 24 German supercomputers that feature amongst the fastest 500 computers in the world. JUBL (Jülich Blue Gene/L) has a computing power of around 46 teraflops, while JUMP (Jülich Multi Processor) boasts around 9 teraflops. They are available to around 200 research groups in Europe and perform simulations and compute models from all research areas: from materials science and particle physics to medicine and environmental research. The third Gauss-partner, HLRS, owns a Supercomputer with 12 Teraflops and holds 108th place in the world.
The contract for the computer due to arrive this autumn was signed by Achim Bachem, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Research Centre Jülich, and Martin Jetter, CEO of IBM Germany, last Monday in Jülich. With a computing power of over 220 teraflops (220 trillion arithmetic operations per second), the computer would sit in 2nd place in the current TOP500 list, just behind its similarly constructed brother in Livermore, USA. In Jülich in autumn, 65,000 processors will be in operation connected through an extremely efficient communication network of the latest generation. Blue Gene supercomputers stand out as a result of their compactness and energy efficiency. They use less than a tenth of the power required by similar computers. When IBM delivers the supercomputer, the Research Centre will become one of the first places worldwide to have a Blue Gene/P system.
The powerful computer will be 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 will continue to be kept. This will mean there will be a suitable computer available for every scientific task. Researchers in Jülich will receive support through a sophisticated three-tier system of contact people and experts. Only when it is eventually put into operation will its administrators give the new computer a name as they did its predecessors JUBL and JUMP.
Press contact:
Kosta Schinarakis, tel. +49 2461 61- 4771, email: k.schinarakis@fz-juelich.de
http://www.top500.org/ List of the fastest computers
http://www.gauss-centre.eu/ information on GAUSS
http://www.fz-juelich.de/portal/index.php?index=721&cmd=show&mid=496 Press release on the signing of the contract
http://www.fz-juelich.de/portal/index.php?index=721&cmd=show&mid=456 Press release: 1 Year of JUBL
http://www.fz-juelich.de/supercomputer information on Jülich supercomputers
http://www.research.ibm.com/bluegene/ More information on Blue Gene
Criteria of this press release:
Electrical engineering, Energy, Information technology, Mathematics, Physics / astronomy
transregional, national
Research projects, Science policy
English
You can combine search terms with and, or and/or not, e.g. Philo not logy.
You can use brackets to separate combinations from each other, e.g. (Philo not logy) or (Psycho and logy).
Coherent groups of words will be located as complete phrases if you put them into quotation marks, e.g. “Federal Republic of Germany”.
You can also use the advanced search without entering search terms. It will then follow the criteria you have selected (e.g. country or subject area).
If you have not selected any criteria in a given category, the entire category will be searched (e.g. all subject areas or all countries).
