The cooling system on the SuperMUC makes it much more colorful than most other supercomputers.
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Despite being another IBM system using Intel's Xeon processors, the SuperMUC is unique in a couple different ways. Located in Germany's Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, the SuperMUC uses a new hot-water cooling system to keep the computer's brain from frying while it's performing billions upon billions of operations. The SuperMUC is another new entry on the list and performs at up to 3 petaflops, thanks to about 150,000 processing cores.
Efficiency is what really sets the SuperMUC apart: IBM says it's 40 percent more energy efficient than an air-cooled system would be. They claim the water removes heats 4,000 times more efficiently than air. Thanks to its cutting-edge hardware, the SuperMUC is Germany's fastest supercomputer. In fact, it's the fastest supercomputer in Europe, period.
