Menold Bezler Advises Leibniz Supercomputing Centre on the Procurement of a New Supercomputer
Menold Bezler advised the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (LRZ) on the procurement of the new “Blue Lion” supercomputer. The total project cost amounts to EUR 250 million.
The architecture of “Blue Lion” enables both traditional high-performance computing (HPC) workflows and high-performance processing of artificial intelligence (AI) methods, as well as their combination. Starting in 2027, “Blue Lion” will support cutting-edge research in Germany and Bavaria, offering roughly 30 times the computing power of its predecessor. The system is being built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE).
The LRZ is one of Germany’s three national high-performance computing centres that together form the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS). The procurement costs are jointly funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) and the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts (StMWK).
Menold Bezler advised the LRZ throughout the tender process on public procurement, contractual, IT and data-protection law matters. In 2024, Menold Bezler had already advised the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart on the procurement of two new supercomputers.
