The Chinese manufacturer of computer equipment Lenovo and the American developer of Intel processors announced a joint work to create a new generation computing complex for the Leibniz supercomputer center (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich (Germany).

A new supercomputer called SuperMUC-NG, which is planned to be built by the end of 2018, will support LRZ in research on such scientific disciplines as astrophysics, hydrodynamics, biology, medicine, etc. The system will provide affordable, safe and energy efficient high-performance (HPC) services .

SuperMUC-NG will have a computing capacity of 26.7 petaflops, implemented with more than 6,500 computer nodes Lenovo Think System SD650, Intel Xeon Platinum processors with Intel Advanced Vectir Extensions technology (Intel AVX 512) and Intel Omni-Path architecture.

The new system will support integration with Lenovo Intelligent Computing Orchestrator (LiCO), software for managing the computing cluster for accelerated development of HPC, Al applications and support for cloud environments.

A powerful computer will allow LRZ researchers to virtualize, process a huge amount of data and quickly share the results with colleagues.