The Max Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF), based at the research campus Garching near Munich, Germany, is a competence center of the Max Planck Society (MPG). The MPCDF operates large supercomputers comprised of more than 10,000 of nodes and storage systems hosting data of several hundreds of petabytes, both online on disks and offline on tape media.
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