Atos boosts supercomputing performance at German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) by 5 with new BullSequana

Paris, 22 June 2020

Atos, a world chief in digital transformation, has signed a new 5-year contract with the German Local weather Computing Centre (DKRZ) to offer a supercomputer based on its latest BullSequana XH2000 technological know-how to raise DKRZ’s computing ability by five, compared to the presently operating higher-performance computer “Mistral” which was delivered by Atos in 2015. The new techniques will be accessible at the DKRZ from mid-2021.

BullSequana to accelerate and provide additional exact forecasting

Just as a new, additional potent telescope offers additional specific pictures from room, a additional potent supercomputer allows for additional specific simulations and thus deeper insights into climate gatherings. This significant raise in computing ability will empower researchers at DKRZ to use regionally additional specific climate and earth procedure types in potential, to contain additional procedures in calculations, to simulate longer time intervals, or to additional accurately seize organic climate variability making use of ensemble calculations and thus reduce uncertainties. This is accompanied by a solid raise in the information that is calculated and then saved and evaluated. The BullSequana is an efficient computing and information management solution, vital for climate modelling and the ensuing information volumes, to market environmental research and provide additional reputable, specific final results.

Prof. Thomas Ludwig, CEO at DKRZ says: “Our higher-performance computer is the coronary heart all around which our solutions for science are grouped. We’re seriously joyful to be doing the job with Atos once more. With the new procedure, our customers will be in a position to achieve new insights into the climate procedure and provide even additional specific final results. This considerations simple research, but also additional used fields of research these kinds of as improved current climate projections. This way, we help achieve essential insights for climate alter adaptation.”

Damien Déclat, Group VP, Head of HPC, AI & Quantum Business enterprise Operations at Atos, explains: “With our solid expertise and experience we have been in a position to properly style and design the DKRZ solution integrating it proficiently with the BullSequana XH2000 system’s best-of-breed parts to optimize DKRZ’s manufacturing workloads. We appear forward to continuing this joint exertion to foresee the future phases as well as to adapt programs and needs to the future processor era and other accelerating parts.”

Atos is a professional in the provision of top technologies for some of the world’s top facilities in the Weather conditions Forecasting and Local weather community, these kinds of as the European Centre for Medium-Vary Weather conditions Forecasts and the French Meteorological Company Météo-France and has labored intently alongside one another to optimize programs, take a look at and foresee new technologies, and appear for amplified effectiveness and lessened TCOs.

Specialized technical specs

The Atos solution is based on its BullSequana XH2000 supercomputer and will be one of the initially outfitted with the future era of AMD EPYC x86 processors. The interconnect takes advantage of NVIDIA Mellanox InfiniBand HDR 200G technological know-how and the information storage solution depends on DDN equipment. The final procedure will consist of all around three,000 computing nodes with a full peak performance of 16 PetaFlops, 800 Terabytes key memory and a a hundred and twenty Petabytes storage procedure.

Funding

The new procedure is really worth 32.five million euros, which is currently being delivered by the Helmholtz Affiliation of German Investigation Centres, the Max Planck Culture and the Absolutely free and Hanseatic Metropolis of Hamburg.

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About DKRZ

The German Local weather Computing Middle (Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum, DKRZ) is a central services centre for German climate and earth procedure research. Its higher performance pcs, information storage and solutions sort the central research infrastructure for simulation-based climate science in Germany.

Apart from providing computing ability, information storage ability and specialized assist for types and simulations in climate research, DKRZ delivers its scientific customers an substantial portfolio of tailor-built solutions. It maintains and develops application software pertinent to climate research and supports its customers in matters of information processing. Lastly, DKRZ also participates in nationwide and worldwide joint projects and cooperations with the aim of strengthening the infrastructure for climate modeling.

DKRZ was launched on November 11, 1987 and took up its solutions on January one, 1988. It is a non-profit and non-business minimal business with four shareholders:

The Max Planck Culture
The Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, represented by the College of Hamburg
The Alfred Wegener Institute – Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Investigation
and the Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht – Centre for Resources and Coastal Investigation (HZG)

What’s more, DKRZ is sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Training and Investigation and the The Helmholtz Affiliation of German Investigation Centres.

DKRZ offers its means (computing time, tough-travel storage and archive ability, consultancy and visualizations) absolutely free of charge. Any researchers conducting research in the area of climate and earth procedure science in Germany, and requiring HPC means for their do the job may utilize for means at DKRZ.

DKRZ engages about 80 workers, primarily with a background in organic and/or computer sciences and is devided into three scientific departments

About Atos

Atos is a world chief in digital transformation with one hundred ten,000 workers in 73 nations and yearly earnings of € 12 billion. European amount one in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Higher-General performance Computing, the Group offers conclude-to-conclude Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Big Details, Business enterprise Apps and Electronic Workplace solutions. The Group is the Around the globe Information and facts Engineering Companion for the Olympic & Paralympic Game titles and operates less than the b
rands Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), stated on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.

The objective of Atos is to help style and design the potential of the details room. Its expertise and solutions assist the development of know-how, instruction and research in a multicultural approach and contribute to the development of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the globe, the Group permits its customers and workers, and customers of societies at substantial to reside, do the job and acquire sustainably, in a risk-free and protected details room.

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