With the power of 50,000 PCs.

To quickly calculate any other computers in Europe: The Forschungszentrum Jülich has the supercomputer Jugene into operation. He is with two other major new computers to help scientists, among others, to explore the climate and fusion reactions to understand.

 

Up to a trillion mathematical operations per second leads from Jugene. Thus, the new giant computer, which is now at the Forschungszentrum Jülich inaugurated, all competitors far behind. At least in Europe. Its computing power roughly equivalent to that which shall bring 50,000 PC, you could encourage them to cooperate.

But this would be an almost futile. The networking of computers would be exceedingly complex, the exchange of data between desktop computers too slow, the energy is too high. The IBM data center in Jülich, the computer came to work on the other hand, "particularly energy efficient," says the chief scientist of the Jülich Supercomputing Centers Thomas Lippert.

In the world of supercomputers, the Jülich computer after this stage in third place to land. The next "TOP 500" list published on 23 June.

The super computer is in 72 large cell phone, water-cooled racks in a hall house and has about 72,000 processors. The machine itself requires 2.2 megawatts of electric power, the whole hall because of the elaborate cooling 5.3 megawatts - about as much as a large wind turbine manufactures. The IBM plant in the series "Blue Gene" has a memory of 144 terabytes, which is about the capacity of nearly 150,000 modern PC.

Costs in the high double-digit million range

Jugene to the site, researchers have two more new super computer. One of them, Juropa 2, is not the fastest computer in Europe, but still the fastest supercomputer based on Sun technology. He was from 2208 computing nodes based on Intel's Xeon server processors together, according to the manufacturer is based on open standards and open source software. Third in the league, the HPC-FF. It is from 1080 compute nodes with a total of 8640 water-cooled processors and about 24 terabytes of memory.

"With the acquisition of Germany Jugene demonstrated its leadership in supercomputing," said Research Minister Annette Schavan at the inauguration of the super computer on Tuesday. The three national high performance computing centers in Stuttgart, and Garching, Jülich agreed within Germany, to scientific users through hardware, software and support an optimal research environment.

The funding in the "high double-digit million range" divided by the federal government and the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia as part of the Gauß-Center for Super Computing.