• Munich Computational Sciences Centre is a cooperation of the Munich Universities LMU und TUM, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Leibniz-Rechenzentrums (LRZ) and of the Rechenzentrums Garching of the Max-Planck-Society (RZG).

• LRZ is part of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS), the alliance of the three German national supercomputing centres:
  John von Neumann-Institut für Computing Jülich
  Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart
  Leibniz-Rechenzentrum
  GCS provides the most powerful high-performance computing infrastructure in Europe

• PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, prepares the creation of a persistent pan-European HPC service, consisting several tier-0 centres providing European researchers with access to capability computers and forming the top level of the European HPC ecosystem. PRACE is a project funded in part by the EU's 7th Framework Programme.

• DEISA is a consortium of leading national supercomputing centres that currently deploys and operates a persistent, production quality, distributed supercomputing environment with continental scope.

• Grid Computing can be described as the coordinated use of distributed computing systems by a set of applications . LRZ offers the required software infrastructure for use of its systems within a Grid; however this infrastructure is still in an evolving state, so not everything may work perfectly yet.

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• The Max-Planck-Gesellschaft has signed an exchange agreement about computing time between LRZ and the Rechenzentrum Garching of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (RZG), users which have peer-reviewed applications for HLRB may use IBM systems of RZG particularly . If you want to learn more about this collaboration project visit our How to get an Account section.