Topping out ceremony for the Leibniz-Computer Centre in Garching

At the beginning of 2004 the topping our ceremony for the new building of the Leibniz-Computer Centre (LCC) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences took place.

The emerging building complex at the campus of the Technical University Munich comprises a cube-shaped computer building, an institute building as well as a lecture hall and seminar building with altogether 13,608 square metres of gross storey area. The building control department of the Technical University Munich takes over the object supervision for the client "Bavarian Academy for Sciences" at the 42 million Euro project. In this demanding project Drees & Sommer takes over the representation of the client and the schedule control. DS-Plan, the Dresse & Sommer partner company, gives consultation for acoustics and heat protection. The design was drawn up by the Munich architect office Herzog + Partner BDA, which also elaborates the implementation planning. In the future, the building is to provide the space for the new maximum performance computer in Bavaria. It is one of the most efficient computers of the world and provides for another 38 million Euro a performance of approximately 20 TFlop/s (floating-point operations per second). For the end of 2005 the handing over of the computer building is planned, the institute building and the lecture hall will probably be completed in 2006.

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The computer building, a cube of 35 metres length of edge and 27.5 metres of height, at which respectively 550 square metres are provided for servers, archives systems and for the new maximum performance computer on three storeys

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