IT SERVICES FOR SCIENCE: DIGITISATION DELIVERED
Modeling climate scenarios, simulating earthquakes, driving advances in personalised medicine, digitising art treasures or bringing to live contemporary witnesses in mixed reality: cutting-edge innovation in science needs state-of-the-art IT technology. This is what we do.
The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) proudly stands at the forefront of its field as a world-class IT service and computing user facility serving Munich’s top universities as well as research institutions in Bavaria, Germany and Europe. Home to SuperMUC-NG, LRZ is part of Germany’s Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) and serves as part of the nation’s backbone for the advanced research and discovery possible through high-performance computing (HPC). As an institute of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, LRZ has provided a robust, holistic IT infrastructure for its users throughout the scientific community for nearly sixty years.
World-class research in bioengineering
Using a combination of CT-scans, other available patient data, and simulations, researchers are forging a path toward personalizing medicine and improving outcomes for patients with acute respiratory illnesses. In collaboration with the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, researchers from the Technical University of Munich are developing new computational methods to put insights from more accurate modelling and simulation into the hands of medical professionals.
Lung Research On The Supercomputer
Prof. Wolfgang A. Wall
The Future Computing at LRZ
Future Computing
As Bavaria pushes to the vanguard of innovation with its Hightech Agenda Bayern, LRZ extends its Future Computing efforts, leveraging the full breadth and depth of its robust IT infrastructure and expertise to ensure Bavaria’s stronghold position for the next wave of supercomputing with quantum and HPC-AI acceleration. We are leveraging decades of experience propelling innovation and competitiveness to evaluate emerging Exascale-class architectures and technologies, develop highly scalable machine learning and artificial intelligence applications, and to push forward system integration of quantum acceleration with supercomputing systems.
Learn more about our ideas in this respect in this position paper.
SuperMUC-NG
Enabling word-class science. This is what SuperMUC-NG was built for. Since officially being in the service of science, it ran nearly 1,2 million jobs using 4,9 billion core hours. From astrophysics and engineering to environmental computing and personalized medicine. Get to know our power horse.
Quantum Computing
Now is the time to get quantum computing out of the physics labs and into compute centres. We are dedicated to make this new technology available to our users – step by step and in collaboration with our partners in science, technology and industry.
Future Computing
With our ambitious Future Computing Program we are contributing to the tech offensive by the Free State of Bavaria - the Hightech Agenda Bayern. Welcome to our new playground on the way to Exascale.
LRZ HPC-AI Systems
With AI techniques becoming more widely used, demand in HPC and AI resources increases in various fields of science at the speed of light. Our answer: Integrating the power of HPC with artificial intelligence techniques - with our own systems, or with systems designed for our clients' needs.
World-class research in biomedicine
This is a crux in medicine: doctors cannot simply look at whether and how organs function or blood flows freely through the veins. Their knowledge is usually based on experience and on static short images provided by computer tomographs, X-rays and other diagnostic equipment. This is to change in the future: supercomputers are to simulate and visualise a living human being, the Virtual Human, on the basis of measured values, data and images.
