It's a device that can perform a trillion calculations per second: The Leibniz Computing Center (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Garching near Munich is getting a supercomputer. The government of the southern German state of Bavaria and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research are each providing 125 million euros for the project, the Bavarian Ministry of Science announced on Wednesday. The computing power exceeds that of 5 million modern laptops or PCs.
The so-called exascale supercomputer will be used to analyze "huge amounts of data." This includes research into black holes and personalized medicine, as well as evaluations in the field of environmental sciences. “As a research location, there is a need for computing in Bavaria," Dieter Kranzlmüller, the director of the LRZ, emphasized.
"This investment creates a top-level infrastructure for science in Bavaria and throughout Germany. It puts us in the top league worldwide," said the state’s Science Minister Markus Blume, a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU), according to a statement.
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