Quick glance at our available systems

What do you want to compute, what do you need?

Thousands of GPU-hours → SuperMUC-NG
Pre- or post-processing of user data for or from SuperMUC-NG → Compute Cloud
HPC ressource to run serial or small to medium sized MPI-parallel applications up to a few hundred cores → Linux Cluster
Accelerated VM resources or more compute ressources than available in the own work station → Compute Cloud
Highly available virtual server to run important service(s) → vSpehre Cluster

Decision Matrix

Compute Services	Typical Usage Profile You need...	Community
Compute Services	Typical Usage Profile You need...	How to get access...
Supercomputer	Large and Huge HPC Workloads You are an experienced user of HPC systems. You want to run large MPI/OpenMP parallel simulations with GPU offloading. You need thousands of GPU-hours. You need very large and fast parallel storage resources for results and data processing.	Users from German universities and research institutions
Supercomputer		Access to SuperMUC-NG
Linux Cluster	Small and Medium HPC Workloads You want to run serial or small to medium sized MPI-parallel applications up to a few hundred cores. You need less than a million core-hours of compute time for your project. You need access to teramem, a node with 192 CPU cores and 6 TByte of shared memory capacity for data analysis. You want to obtain experience in optimizing and executing MPI-parallel applications on HPC systems and need a platform to develop parallel programs. You want a long-term and reliable compute resource for your work group. You need to execute parallel jobs that run commercial application packages licensed by LRZ for campus use You require access to special application software installed on the Linux cluster (Matlab, ANSYS, Star-CCM+, Abaqus, Gaussian, VASP, ...).	Users from Bavarian universities
Linux Cluster		Access to the Linux-Cluster
AI Systems	Data Analytics, Machine Learning, AI (Model Training/Inference) Various compute and storage components for AI (model training, inference), data analytics and big data research and application. CPU-only systems with large memory for big data applications. Individual single & multi-GPU servers for small- to medium-scale data analytics and AI workloads. Clusters of multiple multi-GPU systems for medium- to large-scale AI workloads. Dedicated ML & AI storage systems for high-performance, low-latency data input/output. Access via traditional SSH-based login nodes as well as a user-friendly web interface, including popular development environments JupyterLab and RStudio Server. OS-level virtualization/containerization for highly adaptable, yet consistent and reproducible work environments.	ML/AI users from Munich and Bavarian universities
AI Systems		Access to the AI Systems
Managed Server Server-Hosting by LRZ-vSphere	Servers with High Availablity and Reliability You need one or more highly available virtual server to run important service(s) and you need a solution which protects you from loosing data. Only master users can request virtual machines.	Users from Munich or Bavarian universities
Managed Server Server-Hosting by LRZ-vSphere		VM-Management-Portal
Compute Cloud	Computers with Maximum Flexibility Cloud platform to create virtual resources (VMs, volumes, networks, ...) quickly and on demand. Any operating system that you can get running and have the required licenses for. Root access without restrictions. The users are responsible for their VMs. No high availability and no backups. Need accelerated VM resources or more compute ressources than available in the own work station. Free of charge for SuperMUC-NG users to manage their workflows.	SuperMUC-NG users Users from Munich or Bavarian universities Governmental and non-governmental research institutions that are predominantly funded by public funds and other science-related institutions
Compute Cloud		Access to Compute Cloud

Eligibilty and Pricing

For information about eligibilty and pricing, see https://www.lrz.de/fileadmin/Medien/Downloadbereich/Regelwerk/LRZ-Dienstleistungskatalog.pdf (German only).

Need more info?

Talk to HPC experts in our virtual "HPC Lounge" every Wednesday 2-3pm (Online Zoom Meeting). See: https://doku.lrz.de/hpc-lounge-813636379.html.