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

Paris, 22 June 2020

Atos, a world wide leader in digital transformation, has signed a new five-calendar year contract with the German Local weather Computing Centre (DKRZ) to provide a supercomputer primarily based on its most up-to-date BullSequana XH2000 technological innovation to increase DKRZ’s computing ability by 5, in contrast to the at present functioning higher-functionality personal computer “Mistral” which was furnished by Atos in 2015. The new methods will be offered at the DKRZ from mid-2021.

BullSequana to accelerate and deliver much more exact forecasting

Just as a new, much more potent telescope provides much more comprehensive photos from room, a much more potent supercomputer enables for much more comprehensive simulations and hence deeper insights into local weather situations. This significant increase in computing ability will allow researchers at DKRZ to use regionally much more comprehensive local weather and earth technique designs in foreseeable future, to involve much more procedures in calculations, to simulate longer time intervals, or to much more accurately capture pure local weather variability applying ensemble calculations and hence decrease uncertainties. This is accompanied by a solid increase in the information that is calculated and then stored and evaluated. The BullSequana is an efficient computing and information management option, crucial for local weather modelling and the ensuing information volumes, to endorse environmental investigate and deliver much more reliable, comprehensive results.

Prof. Thomas Ludwig, CEO at DKRZ claims: “Our higher-functionality personal computer is the heart close to which our services for science are grouped. We’re truly content to be functioning with Atos yet again. With the new technique, our users will be ready to acquire new insights into the local weather technique and deliver even much more comprehensive results. This problems primary investigate, but also much more used fields of investigate these as improved present-day local weather projections. This way, we enable acquire essential insights for local weather adjust adaptation.”

Damien Déclat, Team VP, Head of HPC, AI & Quantum Company Functions at Atos, describes: “With our solid abilities and experience we have been ready to efficiently style and design the DKRZ option integrating it competently with the BullSequana XH2000 system’s greatest-of-breed parts to enhance DKRZ’s creation workloads. We glance forward to continuing this joint exertion to foresee the next phases as effectively as to adapt purposes and prerequisites to the next processor era and other accelerating parts.”

Atos is a professional in the provision of foremost technologies for some of the world’s foremost centers in the Weather conditions Forecasting and Local weather neighborhood, these as the European Centre for Medium-Array Weather conditions Forecasts and the French Meteorological Assistance Météo-France and has labored carefully together to enhance purposes, examine and foresee new technologies, and glance for increased efficiency and lessened TCOs.

Specialized specs

The Atos option is primarily based on its BullSequana XH2000 supercomputer and will be one of the initially geared up with the next era of AMD EPYC x86 processors. The interconnect employs NVIDIA Mellanox InfiniBand HDR 200G technological innovation and the information storage option depends on DDN machines. The last technique will consist of close to three,000 computing nodes with a total peak functionality of 16 PetaFlops, 800 Terabytes most important memory and a 120 Petabytes storage technique.

Financing

The new technique is worth 32.5 million euros, which is being furnished by the Helmholtz Association of German Exploration Centres, the Max Planck Modern society and the No cost and Hanseatic Metropolis of Hamburg.

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About DKRZ

The German Local weather Computing Center (Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum, DKRZ) is a central company center for German local weather and earth technique investigate. Its higher functionality desktops, information storage and services sort the central investigate infrastructure for simulation-primarily based local weather science in Germany.

Aside from supplying computing ability, information storage potential and technological aid for designs and simulations in local weather investigate, DKRZ gives its scientific users an comprehensive portfolio of tailor-made services. It maintains and develops software computer software relevant to local weather investigate and supports its users in matters of information processing. At last, DKRZ also participates in countrywide and intercontinental joint projects and cooperations with the purpose of increasing the infrastructure for local weather modeling.

DKRZ was established on November 11, 1987 and took up its services on January one, 1988. It is a non-financial gain and non-professional confined company with four shareholders:

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

What’s more, DKRZ is sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and learning and Exploration and the The Helmholtz Association of German Exploration Centres.

DKRZ provides its methods (computing time, really hard-travel storage and archive potential, consultancy and visualizations) free of charge of charge. Any experts conducting investigate in the area of local weather and earth technique science in Germany, and requiring HPC methods for their do the job might apply for methods at DKRZ.

DKRZ engages about 80 workforce, generally with a background in pure and/or personal computer sciences and is devided into 3 scientific departments

About Atos

Atos is a world wide leader in digital transformation with 110,000 workforce in 73 nations and yearly profits of € 12 billion. European range one in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Large-Functionality Computing, the Team provides conclude-to-conclude Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Massive Information, Company Apps and Electronic Workplace alternatives. The Team is the Wo
rldwide Details Know-how Lover for the Olympic & Paralympic Games and operates under the models Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), mentioned on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The reason of Atos is to enable style and design the foreseeable future of the facts room. Its abilities and services aid the enhancement of understanding, instruction and investigate in a multicultural method and add to the enhancement of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the world, the Team allows its buyers and workforce, and users of societies at massive to dwell, do the job and create sustainably, in a safe and protected facts room.

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