Named after Piz Julier in the Albula Group and Rhaetian Alps, in Graubünden, elevation 3380m, this supercomputer is an IBM x3850 M2.

Piz Julier is a cluster composed of 14 nodes: 2x IBM x3850 M2 system (24 cores, 256GB RAM); 12x Transtec Lynx CALLEO High-Performance Server 2840 (24cores, 48GB RAM).