Need for clinical laboratory IT solutions met through PRACE

One of the most powerful clinical laboratory IT solutions in Europe is being made available to researchers from June 2010, according to the Finnish IT Centre for Science.

JUGENE is hosted at the Gauss-Centre member site in Julich, Germany, and provides processing power of one petaflop.

This is equivalent to one thousand trillion floating point operations per second (flops) and ranks the computer fourth in the world in terms of processing ability.

Within Europe, it is not only among the most powerful clinical laboratory IT solutions, but stands alone as the continent's fastest supercomputer.

Projects hoping to make use of its processing power must be of major significance to European research and have a demonstrable need of Tier-0 resources.

Access is being allocated through PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe.

JUGENE is currently the only high-performance computing environment available through the scheme, offering 2 GB of memory per node and 72 processing racks, contributing towards the peak performance of one petaflop.