“A Whole New Dimension of Processing Power”: Paderborn University Commissions Atos to Build a New Supercomputer
München (Germany), Paris, France, June 23 2021
140,000 processing cores, the incredibly hottest generation of significant-tech options, and compact adequate to healthy inside a squash courtroom – Paderborn University is getting a new supercomputer. “Noctua two,” the undertaking title provided to the 2nd expansion phase of the “Noctua” set up in 2018, will be constructed by current market leader Atos and is anticipated to be set up by the stop of the calendar year. With a complete funding volume of a lot more than 14 million euros, it will be the very first supercomputer to move into the new HPC (Substantial General performance Computing) facility at the Paderborn Heart for Parallel Computing (Laptoptwo). The research developing is virtually accomplished. Half of the HPC process is staying financed by the State of North Rhine-Westfalia and the federal government’s research structures software, as well as by expense methods from the newly started Verbund der Nationalen Hochleistungsrechenzentren (Affiliation of Countrywide Substantial General performance Computing Centers, NHR), which Paderborn University joined at the commencing of the calendar year.
Atos will supply, assemble and put in Noctua two, which will be operated by the PC2, and will also cope with upkeep of the process for the following 5 decades. The Laptoptwo has substantial working experience with running large parallel computer units and significant-general performance computing (HPC). Researchers there have been researching the productive use of supercomputers for quite a few decades now, and they operate significant general performance computer units that serve university researchers through the total Ostwestfalen-Lippe region and nationwide as part of the NHR affiliation. “With Atos, we have an sector-major companion at our aspect. The Paderborn Heart for Parallel Computing provides leading researchers access to ultramodern computing capacity. In order to consider the following step towards long term security in this place, we will need experienced authorities to enable us produce and operate electrical power-productive HPC units. Atos impressed us with its a long time of working experience,” claims Prof. Dr. Christian Plessl from Paderborn University and Chair of the Laptoptwo.
The new process from Atos has incredibly minimal general running expenses, in specific thanks to the totally free-cooling element of the BullSequana XH2000. Its patented immediate liquid cooling (DLC) procedure works by using one hundred p.c very hot water, which implies it consumes much less electrical power than comparable units and decreases general electrical power consumption. For the university, that implies electrical power-productive operation of the significant-general performance units. Making use of the condition-of-the-art Atos technological innovation will give Paderborn University the vital foundation for significant-high-quality, timely and adaptable facts evaluation. The use of revolutionary systems also implies lengthy-time period expense security for the university, and addresses the biggest feasible vary of purposes – for instance substantial simulations for physics and chemistry or device finding out, all of which require monumental processing electrical power.
“The hottest systems and very first-class IT machines are the basis for quite a few scientific reports. Which is why we are so pleased to be ready to build even superior framework situations for nationwide and global slicing-edge research with Noctua two,” claims Professor Birgitt Riegraf, President of Paderborn University.
“As the major European service provider in the place of supercomputing, Atos is in the most effective situation to equip Paderborn University and its research with superb technological innovation. We are pleased that we have been ready to gain the tender, and we will offer Paderborn University with the modern-day, remarkably out there and adaptable supercomputer infrastructure, which includes decades of upkeep support, that is desired for fantastic science and research,” claims Dr. Martin Matzke, Head of Major Data & Security Atos Central Europe.
“In order to guarantee the most effective feasible high-quality for scientific simulations and facts evaluation, and to ensure that Paderborn University continues to be well-positioned for the long term, modern-day IT infrastructure is essential. At the exact time, price-efficiency is important in running these modern-day units. That in particular involves electrical power consumption and cooling,” claims Simone Probst, Vice President for Financial and Staff Administration at Paderborn University. The problem was to uncover the best blend of the most effective general performance and performance choices, minimal general running expenses – in particular for electrical power efficiency and water cooling – the configuration of various nodes (computing nodes, FPGA nodes, significant-speed community, parallel storage process) and acceptable performance for the cluster administration process (user atmosphere).
Dr. Jens Simon, Plant Supervisor for the Laptoptwo, is searching forward to the installation of the new computer: “With a lot more than 140,000 processor cores from the hottest AMD Milan 7763 CPU generation and the in particular significant-general performance Nvidia A100-40 GPU accelerators, we are going into a complete new dimension of processing electrical power. It will offer our end users a incredibly productive substantial-scale research unit that options the hottest systems.”
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Technical details:
BullSequana XH2000: For all computing nodes cooled with very hot water
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 process (6PB of usable storage)
Atos Sensible Management Heart (SMC) software program suite for process administration
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