LRZ and IBM Announce First Commercial Hot Water-Cooled Supercomputer
Built with the IBM System x iDataPlex Direct Water Cooled dx360 M4 servers with more than 150,000 cores, the SuperMUC is a powerful, high-performance system designed to aid researchers and industrial institutions across Europe take on scientific challenges.
The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), in collaboration with IBM, has announced the world's first commercially available hot water-cooled supercomputer - the SuperMUC.
Designed to help researchers and industrial institutions across Europe investigate and solve scientific challenges, the SuperMUC is a powerful, high-performance system built with IBM System x iDataPlex Direct Water Cooled dx360 M4 servers with more than 150,000 cores to provide a peak performance of up to three petaflops (the equivalent to the work of more than 110,000 PCs)
Also, a revolutionary new form of hot water-cooling technology invented by IBM allows the system to be built 10 times more compact and substantially improve its peak performance while consuming 40% less energy than a comparable air-cooled machine.
Source: IBM
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