“A Whole New Dimension of Processing Power”: Paderborn University Commissions Atos to Build a New Supercomputer
München (Germany), Paris, France, June 23 2021
one hundred forty,000 processing cores, the extremely most current era of large-tech options, and compact more than enough to match within a squash court – Paderborn University is finding a new supercomputer. “Noctua 2,” the challenge title provided to the next enlargement stage of the “Noctua” put in in 2018, will be crafted by industry leader Atos and is predicted to be put in by the end of the yr. With a overall financing quantity of a lot more than fourteen million euros, it will be the very first supercomputer to transfer into the new HPC (Superior General performance Computing) facility at the Paderborn Heart for Parallel Computing (Computer system2). The analysis building is almost concluded. 50 percent of the HPC technique is currently being financed by the State of North Rhine-Westfalia and the federal government’s analysis properties method, as perfectly as via financial investment sources from the freshly established Verbund der Nationalen Hochleistungsrechenzentren (Affiliation of Nationwide Superior General performance Computing Facilities, NHR), which Paderborn University joined at the starting of the yr.
Atos will produce, assemble and put in Noctua 2, which will be operated by the PC2, and will also take care of maintenance of the technique for the subsequent 5 several years. The Computer system2 has intensive knowledge with running large parallel personal computer units and large-effectiveness computing (HPC). Scientists there have been researching the economical use of supercomputers for quite a few several years by now, and they operate large effectiveness personal computer units that serve college scientists throughout the overall Ostwestfalen-Lippe area and nationwide as section of the NHR association. “With Atos, we have an sector-top lover at our side. The Paderborn Heart for Parallel Computing provides prime scientists entry to ultramodern computing potential. In get to take the subsequent phase towards future safety in this area, we have to have seasoned experts to support us acquire and operate power-economical HPC units. Atos amazed us with its a long time of knowledge,” states Prof. Dr. Christian Plessl from Paderborn University and Chair of the Computer system2.
The new technique from Atos has extremely small general running expenditures, in individual thanks to the free of charge-cooling function of the BullSequana XH2000. Its patented direct liquid cooling (DLC) system makes use of a hundred % warm h2o, which usually means it consumes a lot less power than equivalent units and decreases general power consumption. For the college, that usually means power-economical operation of the large-effectiveness units. Employing the state-of-the-art Atos technologies will give Paderborn University the vital foundation for large-quality, timely and versatile details analysis. The use of impressive technologies also usually means very long-expression financial investment safety for the college, and handles the biggest achievable variety of apps – for occasion intensive simulations for physics and chemistry or equipment learning, all of which call for huge processing ability.
“The most current technologies and very first-course IT gear are the basis for quite a few scientific scientific studies. That is why we are so happy to be equipped to generate even improved framework disorders for national and intercontinental reducing-edge analysis with Noctua 2,” states Professor Birgitt Riegraf, President of Paderborn University.
“As the top European provider in the area of supercomputing, Atos is in the very best posture to equip Paderborn University and its analysis with superb technologies. We are happy that we were being equipped to earn the tender, and we will supply Paderborn University with the contemporary, highly obtainable and versatile supercomputer infrastructure, which includes several years of maintenance aid, that is essential for excellent science and analysis,” states Dr. Martin Matzke, Head of Huge Information & Protection Atos Central Europe.
“In get to guarantee the very best achievable quality for scientific simulations and details analysis, and to assure that Paderborn University remains perfectly-positioned for the future, contemporary IT infrastructure is critical. At the similar time, price tag-effectiveness is critical in running these contemporary units. That specifically contains ability consumption and cooling,” states Simone Probst, Vice President for Financial and Personnel Administration at Paderborn University. The obstacle was to discover the exceptional mixture of the very best effectiveness and performance offerings, small general running expenditures – specifically for power effectiveness and h2o cooling – the configuration of numerous nodes (computing nodes, FPGA nodes, large-pace network, parallel storage technique) and appropriate performance for the cluster management technique (person surroundings).
Dr. Jens Simon, Plant Manager for the Computer system2, is on the lookout ahead to the set up of the new personal computer: “With a lot more than one hundred forty,000 processor cores from the most current AMD Milan 7763 CPU era and the specifically large-effectiveness Nvidia A100-40 GPU accelerators, we are relocating into a full new dimension of processing ability. It will present our users a extremely economical massive-scale analysis gadget that options the most current technologies.”
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Technological information and facts:
BullSequana XH2000: For all computing nodes cooled with warm h2o
BullSequana X2410 with AMD Milan 7763 CPUs
BullSequana X2415 with Nvidia A100-40 GPUs
BullSequana X400 FPGA nodes
Nvidia/Mellanox InfiniBand HDR/HDR100 Interconnect
DDN 7990X storage with a Lustre file technique (6PB of usable storage)
Atos Wise Management Heart (SMC) software suite for technique management
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