(CercleFinance.com) – BASF has started up a new supercomputer at its Ludwigshafen site to replace the existing one. With 3 petaflops of computing power, the new supercomputer is considerably more powerful than its 1.75 petaflop predecessor.
“Digital technologies are among the most important instruments for expanding our research and development capabilities,” said BASF Board Member and Chief Technology Officer Dr. Melanie Maas-Brunner.
And to recall: ‘that an above-average computing power is necessary nowadays to develop the most promising polymer structures among thousands of possibilities’.
The new supercomputer was manufactured by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. It has an innovative cooling concept based on hot water cooling.
BASF also plans to use the power of cloud computing. “This allows us to handle requests requiring exceptionally high processing power as well as to work on special tasks for which our own supercomputer is not designed,” says Dr. Melanie Maas-Brunner.
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