The research center at Jülich is really impressive. I'm working with Daniel Becker on time stamp syncronization for highly-scalable post-mortem performance analysis, and it looks to be exciting! They have two major computers here: an IBM p690 cluster with 1312 Power4+ CPUs and an IBM BlueGene/L 8192 PowerPC 440 CPUs. There's also a data center with three 670 TeraByte tape silos and tons of other goodies. There's a nuclear reactor somewhere on campus, but it's being decommissioned. There's also a particle accelerator and major medical research equipment.
The center is completely hidden deep in a forest near Jülich. I think it must have been a military institution when it was founded, because it's so hidden and there are military warehouses and old equipment scattered throughout the neighborhood. It's a really cool place to work.
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