“A Whole New Dimension of Processing Power”: Paderborn University Commissions Atos to Build a New Supercomputer
München (Germany), Paris, France, June 23 2021
140,000 processing cores, the really most current generation of higher-tech attributes, and compact adequate to in good shape inside a squash court – Paderborn University is finding a new supercomputer. “Noctua 2,” the job name supplied to the 2nd growth stage of the “Noctua” installed in 2018, will be designed by marketplace chief Atos and is anticipated to be installed by the finish of the year. With a total funding quantity of much more than fourteen million euros, it will be the 1st supercomputer to go into the new HPC (Substantial Performance Computing) facility at the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (Laptop2). The analysis constructing is approximately done. Fifty percent of the HPC program is being financed by the Condition of North Rhine-Westfalia and the federal government’s analysis structures plan, as well as by way of financial investment resources from the newly established Verbund der Nationalen Hochleistungsrechenzentren (Association of Countrywide Substantial Performance Computing Centers, NHR), which Paderborn University joined at the beginning of the year.
Atos will produce, assemble and set up Noctua 2, which will be operated by the PC2, and will also manage maintenance of the program for the future five many years. The Laptop2 has substantial encounter with running massive parallel laptop or computer devices and higher-effectiveness computing (HPC). Scientists there have been studying the economical use of supercomputers for several many years now, and they function higher effectiveness laptop or computer devices that provide college researchers during the total Ostwestfalen-Lippe region and nationwide as part of the NHR association. “With Atos, we have an industry-primary husband or wife at our side. The Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing presents top rated researchers accessibility to ultramodern computing potential. In buy to acquire the future phase toward long term security in this region, we need expert industry experts to enable us create and function electrical power-economical HPC devices. Atos impressed us with its many years of encounter,” states Prof. Dr. Christian Plessl from Paderborn University and Chair of the Laptop2.
The new program from Atos has really reduced overall running prices, in individual many thanks to the free-cooling element of the BullSequana XH2000. Its patented immediate liquid cooling (DLC) process uses one hundred per cent scorching h2o, which signifies it consumes a lot less electrical power than equivalent devices and lessens overall electrical power use. For the college, that signifies electrical power-economical procedure of the higher-effectiveness devices. Utilizing the condition-of-the-art Atos technological know-how will give Paderborn University the required basis for higher-excellent, well timed and adaptable information evaluation. The use of impressive systems also signifies lengthy-time period financial investment security for the college, and addresses the biggest probable vary of apps – for occasion substantial simulations for physics and chemistry or machine understanding, all of which have to have massive processing electric power.
“The most current systems and 1st-course IT equipment are the basis for several scientific studies. That is why we are so pleased to be capable to make even improved framework ailments for nationwide and intercontinental chopping-edge analysis with Noctua 2,” states Professor Birgitt Riegraf, President of Paderborn University.
“As the primary European provider in the region of supercomputing, Atos is in the best situation to equip Paderborn University and its analysis with fantastic technological know-how. We are pleased that we had been capable to win the tender, and we will provide Paderborn University with the fashionable, remarkably out there and adaptable supercomputer infrastructure, such as many years of maintenance aid, that is desired for outstanding science and analysis,” states Dr. Martin Matzke, Head of Major Knowledge & Security Atos Central Europe.
“In buy to guarantee the best probable excellent for scientific simulations and information evaluation, and to assure that Paderborn University remains well-positioned for the long term, fashionable IT infrastructure is crucial. At the same time, charge-performance is crucial in running these fashionable devices. That especially involves electric power use and cooling,” states Simone Probst, Vice President for Economic and Staff Administration at Paderborn University. The problem was to uncover the ideal mixture of the best effectiveness and features choices, reduced overall running prices – especially for electrical power performance and h2o cooling – the configuration of different nodes (computing nodes, FPGA nodes, higher-velocity network, parallel storage program) and ideal features for the cluster management program (person ecosystem).
Dr. Jens Simon, Plant Manager for the Laptop2, is seeking forward to the installation of the new laptop or computer: “With much more than 140,000 processor cores from the most current AMD Milan 7763 CPU generation and the especially higher-effectiveness Nvidia A100-40 GPU accelerators, we are transferring into a complete new dimension of processing electric power. It will give our buyers a really economical big-scale analysis device that attributes the most current systems.”
Atos is taking part in this year’s Discussion board Teratec, the Worldwide Convention for Simulation, HPC/HPDA, AI & Quantum from 22-24 June. Stop by our digital booth, uncover our options and hear to our VIPs and industry experts below.
Atos will also be at the digital and on-need ISC, the intercontinental Convention for HPC, machine understanding and higher-effectiveness information analytics from 24 June – 2 July. Uncover out much more about our convention sessions as well as new options to be released at the party below.
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Technological data:
BullSequana XH2000: For all computing nodes cooled with scorching h2o
BullSequana X2410 with AMD Milan 7763 CPUs
BullSequana X2415 with Nvidia A100-40 GPUs
BullSequana X400 FPGA nodes
Nvidia/Mellanox InfiniBand HDR/HDR100 Interconnect
DDN 7990X storage with a Lustre file program (6PB of usable storage)
Atos Good Administration Center (SMC) software package suite for program management
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