A team of computer scientists, mathematicians and
geophysicists at Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) and Ludwig-Maximillians
Universitaet Muenchen (LMU) have – with the support of the Leibniz
Supercomputing Center of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (LRZ)
– optimized the SeisSol earthquake simulation software on the SuperMUC high
performance computer at the LRZ to push its performance beyond the “magical”
one petaflop/s mark – one quadrillion floating point operations per second.