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LEIBNIZ
Supercomputing
Center (LRZ)
Peak capacity: 70,000,000,000,000 floating point operations per second, and the world's largest freely addressable memory: 40,000,000,000,000 bytes
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Construction of the cube (baselength 36m) hosting the new supercomputer
at the Leibniz Rechenzentrum
(LRZ), next to the building of
TUM computer science.
Power consumption: roughly 4 MW.
Most of the hardware serves to cool the interior.
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For a rather long time (2002-2004) a NEC computer
in Tokyo was the world's fastest (36 Teraflops).
The most recent record holder (March 2005) is an IBM Blue Gene: max 135 Tflops. The new
LRZ supercomputer will boast a peak of 70 Tflops.
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100 Teraflops is roughly one percent of the raw computing
power of a human brain, according to
frequent estimates.
Soon our fastest computers will match brains.
And then?
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