Atos boosts supercomputing performance at German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) by 5 with new BullSequana
Paris, 22 June 2020
Atos, a world wide chief in digital transformation, has signed a new 5-calendar year agreement with the German Local weather Computing Centre (DKRZ) to source a supercomputer centered on its most current BullSequana XH2000 technology to increase DKRZ’s computing electrical power by 5, in contrast to the at present functioning significant-performance laptop or computer “Mistral” which was supplied by Atos in 2015. The new systems will be obtainable at the DKRZ from mid-2021.
BullSequana to speed up and deliver far more specific forecasting
Just as a new, far more highly effective telescope presents far more thorough photos from place, a far more highly effective supercomputer permits for far more thorough simulations and thus further insights into weather activities. This major increase in computing electrical power will enable scientists at DKRZ to use regionally far more thorough weather and earth method types in long term, to consist of far more processes in calculations, to simulate for a longer time time intervals, or to far more precisely capture organic weather variability using ensemble calculations and thus cut down uncertainties. This is accompanied by a potent increase in the knowledge that is calculated and then saved and evaluated. The BullSequana is an effective computing and knowledge administration option, important for weather modelling and the resulting knowledge volumes, to encourage environmental study and deliver far more reliable, thorough results.
Prof. Thomas Ludwig, CEO at DKRZ states: “Our significant-performance laptop or computer is the heart about which our providers for science are grouped. We’re really pleased to be doing the job with Atos once again. With the new method, our buyers will be in a position to get new insights into the weather method and deliver even far more thorough results. This concerns fundamental study, but also far more used fields of study this kind of as enhanced latest weather projections. This way, we assist get essential insights for weather adjust adaptation.”
Damien Déclat, Team VP, Head of HPC, AI & Quantum Enterprise Functions at Atos, describes: “With our potent skills and knowledge we have been in a position to productively layout the DKRZ option integrating it competently with the BullSequana XH2000 system’s best-of-breed parts to optimize DKRZ’s production workloads. We seem ahead to continuing this joint energy to anticipate the upcoming phases as nicely as to adapt applications and prerequisites to the upcoming processor technology and other accelerating parts.”
Atos is a specialist in the provision of foremost systems for some of the world’s foremost centers in the Climate Forecasting and Local weather local community, this kind of as the European Centre for Medium-Variety Climate Forecasts and the French Meteorological Support Météo-France and has worked closely with each other to optimize applications, examine and anticipate new systems, and seem for greater effectiveness and lessened TCOs.
Technical specifications
The Atos option is centered on its BullSequana XH2000 supercomputer and will be a person of the very first outfitted with the upcoming technology of AMD EPYC x86 processors. The interconnect takes advantage of NVIDIA Mellanox InfiniBand HDR 200G technology and the knowledge storage option relies on DDN machines. The ultimate method will consist of about 3,000 computing nodes with a overall peak performance of 16 PetaFlops, 800 Terabytes main memory and a a hundred and twenty Petabytes storage method.
Financing
The new method is worthy of 32.5 million euros, which is getting supplied by the Helmholtz Association of German Study Centres, the Max Planck Modern society and the Free and Hanseatic Town of Hamburg.
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About DKRZ
The German Local weather Computing Middle (Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum, DKRZ) is a central service center for German weather and earth method study. Its significant performance computer systems, knowledge storage and providers sort the central study infrastructure for simulation-centered weather science in Germany.
Aside from furnishing computing electrical power, knowledge storage ability and technological support for types and simulations in weather study, DKRZ offers its scientific buyers an comprehensive portfolio of tailor-created providers. It maintains and develops application software package applicable to weather study and supports its buyers in matters of knowledge processing. Last but not least, DKRZ also participates in nationwide and intercontinental joint jobs and cooperations with the intention of increasing the infrastructure for weather modeling.
DKRZ was started on November 11, 1987 and took up its providers on January 1, 1988. It is a non-revenue and non-business limited 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 Study
- and the Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht – Centre for Products and Coastal Study (HZG)
Furthermore, DKRZ is sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Schooling and Study and the The Helmholtz Association of German Study Centres.
DKRZ presents its assets (computing time, tricky-generate storage and archive ability, consultancy and visualizations) free of charge of charge. Any scientists conducting study in the area of weather and earth method science in Germany, and requiring HPC assets for their operate may perhaps implement for assets at DKRZ.
DKRZ engages about eighty employees, largely with a background in organic and/or laptop or computer sciences and is devided into a few scientific departments
Contacts presse :
Thomas Ludwig | DKRZ | [email protected] | +forty nine forty 460094 two hundred
Michael Böttinger | DKRZ | [email protected] | +forty nine forty 460094 344
About Atos
Atos is a world wide chief in digital transformation with 110,000 employees in 73 countries and annual earnings of € twelve billion. European number a person in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Large-Efficiency Computing, the Team presents stop-to-stop Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Large Info, Enterprise Applications and Electronic Place of work remedies. The Team is the Worldwide Facts Technology Companion for the Olympic & Paralympic Games and operates beneath the makes Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), listed on the CAC40 Paris stock index.
The objective of Atos is to assist layout the long term of the info place. Its skills and providers support the growth of information, education and learning and study in a multicultural method and add to the growth of scientific and technological excellence. Across the globe, the Team enables its clients and employees, and associates of societies at substantial to are living, operate and acquire sustainably, in a secure and safe info place.
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