HLRN, established in 2001, is a joint project of the seven North-German states: Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen and Schleswig-Holstein. HLRN currently runs Moab HPC Suite: Enterprise Edition on its distributed Cray XC30 supercomputing system, “HLRN III,” which is hosted at Zuse Institute Berlin and Leibniz University Hannover. Completed in January 2014, HLRN III is one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world and possesses the computing capacity of approximately 25,000 high-end PCs.