Hewlett Packard Enterprise builds next-generation 100% direct liquid cooled supercomputer

The Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities has commissioned Hewlett Packard Enterprise to build its next high-performance computer, called «Blue Lion». From 2027 on, Blue Lion will support cutting-edge research in Bavaria and, as a system of the Gauss Center for Supercomputing (GCS), will also be used for outstanding national science projects. The contracts were signed on December 13, 2024. The total costs of 250 million euros (1) are shared by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts (StMWK).

«LRZ’s Blue Lion is another big step to reinforce Germany’s position as a leading region for supercomputing and AI innovation,» said Heiko Meyer, Executive Vice President and Chief Sales Officer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

The architecture of the new high-performance computer is designed to execute and combine classic workflows from modeling and simulation with artificial intelligence (AI) methods. More and more researchers are relying on surrogate models for their modelling of flows, turbulence or climate events, for which classic simulation calculations are combined with pattern recognition or statistical data analysis. This allows them to calculate more scenarios in less time or expand models with more complex calculations.