In terms of computing power, we astrophysicists are insatiable

Astrophysicist Hans-Thomas Janka, a scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics and lecturer at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), and his team have used SuperMUC excessively: A conversation about the benefits of supercomputers and the hunger for data in physics.

More than 570 million core hours on SuperMUC: Congratulations, you have been the heavy user of this high-performance computer for the last six years.
Professor Hans-Thomas Janka: For us, the SuperMUC was a gift. Previously, astrophysicists could only perform much smaller calculations and thus only calculate two-dimensional models. With the SuperMUC even three-dimensional simulations became possible - that was a huge breakthrough for us.