<s>
SuperMUC	B-Device
was	O
a	O
supercomputer	B-Architecture
of	O
the	O
Leibniz	B-General_Concept
Supercomputing	I-General_Concept
Centre	I-General_Concept
(	O
LRZ	O
)	O
of	O
the	O
Bavarian	O
Academy	O
of	O
Sciences	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
decommissioned	O
in	O
January	O
2020	O
,	O
having	O
been	O
superseded	O
by	O
the	O
more	O
powerful	O
SuperMUC-NG	B-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
SuperMUC	B-Device
(	O
the	O
suffix	O
'	O
MUC	O
 '	O
alludes	O
to	O
the	O
IATA	O
code	O
of	O
Munich	O
's	O
airport	O
)	O
is	O
operated	O
by	O
the	O
Leibniz	B-General_Concept
Supercomputing	I-General_Concept
Centre	I-General_Concept
,	O
a	O
European	O
centre	O
for	O
supercomputing	B-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
order	O
to	O
house	O
its	O
hardware	O
,	O
the	O
infrastructure	O
space	O
of	O
the	O
Leibniz	B-General_Concept
Supercomputing	I-General_Concept
Centre	I-General_Concept
was	O
more	O
than	O
doubled	O
in	O
2012	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SuperMUC	B-Device
was	O
the	O
fastest	O
European	O
supercomputer	B-Architecture
when	O
it	O
entered	O
operation	O
in	O
the	O
summer	O
of	O
2012	O
and	O
is	O
currently	O
ranked	O
No	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
20	O
in	O
the	O
Top500	B-Operating_System
list	O
of	O
the	O
world	O
's	O
fastest	B-Operating_System
supercomputers	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
SuperMUC	B-Device
serves	O
European	O
researchers	O
of	O
many	O
fields	O
,	O
including	O
medicine	O
,	O
astrophysics	O
,	O
quantum	O
chromodynamics	O
,	O
computational	O
fluid	O
dynamics	O
,	O
computational	O
chemistry	O
,	O
life	O
sciences	O
,	O
genome	O
analysis	O
and	O
earth	O
quake	O
simulations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SuperMUC	B-Device
is	O
an	O
IBM	B-Operating_System
iDataPlex	I-Operating_System
system	O
containing	O
19,252	O
Intel	B-Device
Xeon	I-Device
Sandy	B-Device
Bridge-EP	I-Device
and	O
Westmere-EX	B-Device
multi-core	B-Architecture
processors	I-Architecture
(	O
155,656	O
cores	O
)	O
,	O
for	O
a	O
peak	O
performance	O
of	O
about	O
3PFLOPS	O
(	O
3×1015FLOPS	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
has	O
340TB	O
of	O
main	B-General_Concept
memory	I-General_Concept
and	O
15PB	O
of	O
hard	O
disk	O
space	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
SuperMUC	B-Device
is	O
connected	O
to	O
powerful	O
visualization	O
systems	O
,	O
which	O
consist	O
of	O
a	O
large	O
4K	O
stereoscopic	O
powerwall	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
a	O
five-sided	O
CAVE	O
artificial	O
virtual	O
reality	O
environment	O
.	O
</s>
