8. SuperMUC (Germany) – $111 million
The 14th fastest supercomputer in the world, it was formerly the 10th fastest in 2013, but the technology advanced and the machine remained behind.
But it still holds the title as the second-fastest supercomputer in Germany. It is operated by the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
Housed near Munich, the system of the SuperMUC was created by IBM, operates on Linux and contains over 19,000 Intel and Westmere-EX processors.
Has a peak performance of a little over 3 PFLOPS and its system is noted for its new form of cooling that IBM developed, called Aquasar. Basically, it uses hot water to cool the processors and it cuts the cooling electricity usage by 40%.
The usage of SuperMUC is simple. The European researches use it in a number of fields, including medicine, astrophysiscs, quantum chromodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, life sciences, computational chemistry, genome analysis, and earth quake simulations.