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The Future is Now: The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre turns 60

Technologie:Working at LRZ Forschungsbereich:Future Computing

The chronicle “50 years of the LRZ” provides an exciting insight into the years 1962 - 2012 of the Leibniz Supercomputing Center.

The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre is an organization familiar with computer science history— it was one of the first connections to the German Scientific Network (Deutsches Forschungsnetz, DFN) already in the 1980s. It hosted the first hot water-cooled supercomputer on the top 500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers in 2012. The first German quantum demonstrator is in progress in Garching. On top of these milestones, an exascale supercomputer for Bavaria and seated at LRZ was just announced for the years to come. The institute of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW) has actively shaped German—but also European and global—computer science history over the past 60 years.

Browse through the first “50 years of LRZ” and celebrate the 60th anniversary with us.

Leibniz Supercomputing Center
of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
Boltzmannstraße 1
85748 Garching - Germany