“A Whole New Dimension of Processing Power”: Paderborn University Commissions Atos to Build a New Supercomputer
München (Germany), Paris, France, June 23 2021
a hundred and forty,000 processing cores, the very most up-to-date technology of substantial-tech characteristics, and compact enough to match inside of a squash court docket – Paderborn University is obtaining a new supercomputer. “Noctua two,” the undertaking identify offered to the 2nd expansion stage of the “Noctua” set up in 2018, will be built by industry chief Atos and is predicted to be set up by the conclude of the year. With a overall financing volume of far more than fourteen million euros, it will be the 1st supercomputer to go into the new HPC (Large General performance Computing) facility at the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (Computertwo). The exploration building is approximately concluded. Half of the HPC system is currently being financed by the State of North Rhine-Westfalia and the federal government’s exploration structures plan, as well as via expense assets from the freshly founded Verbund der Nationalen Hochleistungsrechenzentren (Association of National Large General performance Computing Facilities, NHR), which Paderborn University joined at the beginning of the year.
Atos will deliver, assemble and put in Noctua two, which will be operated by the PC2, and will also take care of servicing of the system for the subsequent five years. The Computertwo has in depth experience with functioning substantial parallel personal computer methods and substantial-efficiency computing (HPC). Scientists there have been studying the productive use of supercomputers for numerous years now, and they operate substantial efficiency personal computer methods that provide college researchers during the entire Ostwestfalen-Lippe region and nationwide as part of the NHR affiliation. “With Atos, we have an business-foremost lover at our aspect. The Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing presents leading researchers entry to ultramodern computing potential. In get to choose the subsequent phase towards long run security in this area, we have to have experienced industry experts to help us create and operate strength-productive HPC methods. Atos amazed us with its decades of experience,” says Prof. Dr. Christian Plessl from Paderborn University and Chair of the Computertwo.
The new system from Atos has very minimal general functioning prices, in distinct thanks to the absolutely free-cooling function of the BullSequana XH2000. Its patented immediate liquid cooling (DLC) process utilizes 100 p.c warm h2o, which means it consumes fewer strength than similar methods and lowers general strength usage. For the college, that means strength-productive procedure of the substantial-efficiency methods. Applying the point out-of-the-art Atos technological know-how will give Paderborn University the needed foundation for substantial-top quality, well timed and adaptable details analysis. The use of revolutionary systems also means lengthy-term expense security for the college, and addresses the best probable variety of purposes – for occasion in depth simulations for physics and chemistry or equipment finding out, all of which call for massive processing power.
“The most up-to-date systems and 1st-course IT machines are the foundation for numerous scientific experiments. That is why we are so happy to be able to generate even better framework situations for nationwide and intercontinental cutting-edge exploration with Noctua two,” says Professor Birgitt Riegraf, President of Paderborn University.
“As the foremost European company in the area of supercomputing, Atos is in the ideal position to equip Paderborn University and its exploration with fantastic technological know-how. We are happy that we were being able to gain the tender, and we will provide Paderborn University with the modern day, really out there and adaptable supercomputer infrastructure, which includes years of servicing assist, that is desired for exceptional science and exploration,” says Dr. Martin Matzke, Head of Major Knowledge & Protection Atos Central Europe.
“In get to warranty the ideal probable top quality for scientific simulations and details analysis, and to ensure that Paderborn University stays well-positioned for the long run, modern day IT infrastructure is crucial. At the exact time, price-effectiveness is important in functioning these modern day methods. That specifically features power usage and cooling,” says Simone Probst, Vice President for Financial and Personnel Administration at Paderborn University. The problem was to find the ideal mix of the ideal efficiency and functionality choices, minimal general functioning prices – specifically for strength effectiveness and h2o cooling – the configuration of many nodes (computing nodes, FPGA nodes, substantial-speed network, parallel storage system) and ideal functionality for the cluster management system (consumer atmosphere).
Dr. Jens Simon, Plant Manager for the Computertwo, is seeking ahead to the installation of the new personal computer: “With far more than a hundred and forty,000 processor cores from the most up-to-date AMD Milan 7763 CPU technology and the specifically substantial-efficiency Nvidia A100-forty GPU accelerators, we are transferring into a total new dimension of processing power. It will give our buyers a very productive massive-scale exploration gadget that characteristics the most up-to-date systems.”
Atos is getting part in this year’s Discussion board Teratec, the Worldwide Meeting for Simulation, HPC/HPDA, AI & Quantum from 22-24 June. Go to our virtual booth, uncover our solutions and hear to our VIPs and industry experts in this article.
Atos will also be at the virtual and on-demand ISC, the intercontinental Meeting for HPC, equipment finding out and substantial-efficiency details analytics from 24 June – two July. Come across out far more about our conference sessions as well as new solutions to be released at the celebration in this article.
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Technical information and facts:
BullSequana XH2000: For all computing nodes cooled with warm h2o
BullSequana X2410 with AMD Milan 7763 CPUs
BullSequana X2415 with Nvidia A100-forty GPUs
BullSequana X400 FPGA nodes
Nvidia/Mellanox InfiniBand HDR/HDR100 Interconnect
DDN 7990X storage with a Lustre file system (6PB of usable storage)
Atos Clever Management Center (SMC) software program suite for system management
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