LRZ istalls this month a 26 Tflop/s SGI Altix system. There is a new 36x36x36 cubical, part of the complete new LRZ buildings, in which the new computer rooms are located. The main system at HLRS is a 12,7 Tflop/s SX-8. The largest machine in Juelich is a 46 Tflop/s Blue Gene. But NIc also operates a 2.5Tflop/s APENext special purpose machine that is used for lattice gauge theory.

The centres also participate in many large German and European projects. Two are described in more detail in InSiDE. One is the very large European Grid project BEinGRID. This project with 75 partners, 13 of which come from Germany, sets up a number of Grid business experiments, building on sofwtare developed in previous projects.

The inGrid project, part of D-Grid, works on innnovative Grids for engineering applications.The project has 8 university and industry partners.

InSiDE contains a lot of information on workshops and conferences organised by the centres. It is an impressive list with topics like workshops on scalabale file systems, the NEC Teraflop/s workshop and the German-Russian school on parallel processing.

The centres' main purpose is to help advancing science. Hence inSiDE lets five researchers in different areas report on their efforts and results in using the available supercomputers. One example is the use of the BlueGene for study of materials.