Leibniz Supercomputing Centre
The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre is a supercomputing centre on the Campus Garching near Munich, operated by the Bavarian [Academy of Sciences and Humanities]. Among other IT services, it provides supercomputer resources for research and access to the ; it is connected to the Deutsches Forschungsnetz with a 24 Gbit/s link. LRZ has also become one of the leaders in the research of interactions between high performance computing and quantum computing, with several quantum computers of differing modalities on site.
The centre is named after Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. It was founded in 1962 by Hans Piloty and Robert Sauer as part of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the host for several world leading supercomputers.