München (Germany), Paris, France, June 23 2021
a hundred and forty,000 processing cores, the incredibly most up-to-date era of significant-tech options, and compact adequate to in shape within a squash court docket – Paderborn University is finding a new supercomputer. “Noctua two,” the undertaking identify specified to the 2nd expansion stage of the “Noctua” put in in 2018, will be designed by current market chief Atos and is envisioned to be put in by the end of the 12 months. With a whole financing quantity of additional than fourteen million euros, it will be the initially supercomputer to go into the new HPC (Substantial General performance Computing) facility at the Paderborn Middle for Parallel Computing (Pctwo). The investigate developing is virtually done. 50 % of the HPC procedure is becoming financed by the Point out of North Rhine-Westfalia and the federal government’s investigate properties method, as effectively as by investment decision resources from the recently established Verbund der Nationalen Hochleistungsrechenzentren (Association of Nationwide Substantial General performance Computing Centers, NHR), which Paderborn University joined at the commencing of the 12 months.
Atos will supply, assemble and install Noctua two, which will be operated by the PC2, and will also deal with servicing of the procedure for the upcoming five decades. The Pctwo has intensive knowledge with operating huge parallel laptop methods and significant-overall performance computing (HPC). Scientists there have been finding out the productive use of supercomputers for several decades currently, and they operate significant overall performance laptop methods that provide college scientists during the overall Ostwestfalen-Lippe location and nationwide as part of the NHR affiliation. “With Atos, we have an marketplace-foremost partner at our aspect. The Paderborn Middle for Parallel Computing presents best scientists access to ultramodern computing capacity. In purchase to get the upcoming action toward future protection in this spot, we require expert industry experts to aid us acquire and operate power-productive HPC methods. Atos impressed us with its decades of knowledge,” says Prof. Dr. Christian Plessl from Paderborn University and Chair of the Pctwo.
The new procedure from Atos has incredibly small all round operating costs, in distinct many thanks to the free-cooling function of the BullSequana XH2000. Its patented immediate liquid cooling (DLC) process utilizes 100 per cent incredibly hot h2o, which usually means it consumes fewer power than comparable methods and lowers all round power intake. For the college, that usually means power-productive procedure of the significant-overall performance methods. Employing the state-of-the-artwork Atos know-how will give Paderborn University the necessary basis for significant-high quality, timely and flexible details investigation. The use of revolutionary technologies also usually means long-term investment decision protection for the college, and handles the best doable variety of apps – for occasion intensive simulations for physics and chemistry or equipment understanding, all of which need great processing energy.
“The most up-to-date technologies and initially-course IT equipment are the basis for several scientific studies. That is why we are so delighted to be ready to create even much better framework problems for nationwide and international chopping-edge investigate with Noctua two,” says Professor Birgitt Riegraf, President of Paderborn University.
“As the foremost European supplier in the spot of supercomputing, Atos is in the finest position to equip Paderborn University and its investigate with outstanding know-how. We are delighted that we had been ready to get the tender, and we will offer Paderborn University with the modern day, really offered and flexible supercomputer infrastructure, together with decades of servicing assist, that is required for exceptional science and investigate,” says Dr. Martin Matzke, Head of Large Knowledge & Security Atos Central Europe.
“In purchase to assurance the finest doable high quality for scientific simulations and details investigation, and to make sure that Paderborn University continues to be effectively-positioned for the future, modern day IT infrastructure is important. At the identical time, price tag-effectiveness is critical in operating these modern day methods. That specifically incorporates energy intake and cooling,” says Simone Probst, Vice President for Economic and Personnel Administration at Paderborn University. The challenge was to discover the ideal mixture of the finest overall performance and features choices, small all round operating costs – specifically for power effectiveness and h2o cooling – the configuration of many nodes (computing nodes, FPGA nodes, significant-velocity community, parallel storage procedure) and suitable features for the cluster administration procedure (user atmosphere).
Dr. Jens Simon, Plant Manager for the Pctwo, is on the lookout ahead to the installation of the new laptop: “With additional than a hundred and forty,000 processor cores from the most up-to-date AMD Milan 7763 CPU era and the specifically significant-overall performance Nvidia A100-40 GPU accelerators, we are relocating into a full new dimension of processing energy. It will present our consumers a incredibly productive huge-scale investigate gadget that options the most up-to-date technologies.”
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Atos will also be at the virtual and on-need ISC, the international Convention for HPC, equipment understanding and significant-overall performance details analytics from 24 June – two July. Discover out additional about our meeting classes as effectively as new answers to be launched at the function listed here.
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Technical data:
BullSequana XH2000: For all computing nodes cooled with incredibly hot 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 procedure (6PB of usable storage)
Atos Smart Administration Middle (SMC) application suite for procedure administration
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