First Commercial IBM Hot-Water Cooled Supercomputer to Consume 40% Less Energy

First Commercial IBM Hot-Water Cooled Supercomputer to Consume 40% Less Energy PR Newswire MUNICH, June 18, 2012 - Leibniz's "SuperMUC" named Europe's fastest supercomputer MUNICH, June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), in collaboration with IBM (NYSE: IBM), today announced the world's first commercially available hot-water cooled supercomputer, a powerful, high- performance system designed to help researchers and industrial institutions across Europe investigate and solve some of the world's most daunting scientific challenges. YouTube: http://youtu.be/LzTedSh51Tw Flickr Photos: http://flickr.com/gp/ibm_research_zurich/m89ZD2/ Timeline: IBM's History and Future in Water Cooled Computing (1966-2060) The new LRZ "SuperMUC" system was 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, which is equivalent to the work of more than 110,000 personal computers. Put another way, three billion people using a pocket calculator would have to perform one million operations per second each to reach equivalent SuperMUC performance. 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 percent less energy than a comparable air- cooled machine.