High-Performance desktops (HPC) have initiated a innovative strengthen­ ment in learn and expertise for the reason that many complicated and not easy prob­ lems during this zone can basically be solved through HPC and a community in modeling, algo­ rithms and software program. In 1998 the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German examine organization) instructed to put in an extra Federal excessive­ functionality computing device by way of the only in Stuttgart. In January 1999 the Wissenschaftsrat (German technology Council) made up our minds that the Leibniz­ Rechenzentrum (Computing heart) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich may still run the second one Federal High-Performance desktop in Ger­ many. The funding rate of this Hochstleistungsrechner in Bayern (HLRB) used to be borne by means of the government of Germany and the loose country of Bavaria while the working expense used to be on the cost of the Bavarian Gov­ ernment in basic terms. The operation of the HLRB is geared up together with the - Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences because the working authority of the HLRB - guidance Committee of the HLRB - Competence community for Technical/Scientific High-Performance Comp- ing in Bavaria (KONWIHR). In 2000 a Hitachi SR8000-Fl was once put in. It was once the 1st Teraflops Com­ puter in Germany and reached a height functionality of 2 Teraflops after an extension on the finish of 2001. The target of HLRB is to supply computing device facil­ ities essential to resolve not easy clinical and technological difficulties that can not be solved on immense servers yet require huge (storage) high-performance (very speedy) pcs and effective software.