Atos partners with University of Oxford on largest AI supercomputer in the UK
Paris and London, four August 2020
Atos, a international chief in digital transformation, has signed a 4-12 months agreement truly worth £5 million with the College of Oxford to deliver a new, condition of the artwork, deep discovering supercomputer constructed on the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD™ architecture, which will allow Uk teachers and marketplace to push forward scientific discoveries and innovation in device discovering and synthetic intelligence, as section of the JADE2 venture.
The biggest AI-concentrated supercomputer in the Uk with more than 500 NVIDIA GPUs, this superior-efficiency procedure is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Investigate Council (EPSRC), and aims to construct on the good results of the latest JADEone (Joint Tutorial Facts Science Endeavour) facility – a national source providing advanced GPU computing amenities to planet-foremost AI and device discovering experts from a consortium of 8 Uk universities and the Alan Turing Institute.
The JADE2 supercomputer is constructed on NVIDIA DGX techniques, and works by using the DDN AthreeI storage alternative. It will more than triple the capability of the first JADE device and present enhanced computing capabilities to a wider consortium of more than twenty universities and the Turing Institute, supporting to fulfill the degree of demand for AI-concentrated amenities created as a consequence of the good results of the JADE source.
Professor Wes Armour at the College of Oxford said: “The productive delivery of JADE has created more demand among Uk scientists and marketplace for strong computing amenities which can accommodate superior conclude, facts intensive AI workloads. Building on the good results of the JADE collaboration with Atos, and by considerably increasing the JADE consortium’s computing capability, the new Deep Learning supercomputer equipped by Atos will permit us to fulfill this demand and enable numerous establishments to make some potentially floor-breaking discoveries. It will cement JADE’s standing as the de facto national computing facility for academic AI exploration.”
Alison Kennedy, Director, STFC Hartree Centre explained: “We are pleased that the delivery and web hosting of this chopping-edge JADE-two components and the resultant increase in functionality will help the progress and growth of exploration computing competencies throughout marketplace and academia. This aligns directly with the Hartree Centre’s mission and we are delighted to carry on the collaboration with Atos and Oxford College which builds on the former good results of JADE.”
Agnès Boudot, Senior Vice President, Head of HPC & Quantum at Atos, concluded: “We are proud to be performing with the College of Oxford on the delivery of JADE2, which will present scientists and marketplace with more computing electrical power to allow new scientific breakthroughs and innovation in device discovering and AI. We consider this superior-efficiency procedure, coupled with our experience, will enable the Uk to deal with vital AI and device discovering troubles, although supporting the UK’s ambition to be a planet-chief in these places.”
The DGX SuperPOD procedure will comprise a cluster of 63 DGX nodes, acquiring 504 NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs in full, interconnected with NVIDIA Mellanox InfiniBand networking, all currently being fed by DDN’s AI400 storage, producing it the biggest these kinds of procedure in the Uk.
The procedure is to be hosted at the STFC Hartree Centre in Daresbury, around Warrington, Uk.
one JADE – Joint Tutorial Facts science Endeavour. This proposal, led by the College of Oxford, with help from the Alan Turing Institute (ATI), and 22 universities, is the national GPU procedure supporting multidisciplinary science with a concentration on device discovering and molecular dynamics.
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