“A Whole New Dimension of Processing Power”: Paderborn University Commissions Atos to Build a New Supercomputer

München (Germany), Paris, France, June 23 2021

one hundred forty,000 processing cores, the really most current era of superior-tech characteristics, and compact plenty of to healthy within a squash courtroom – Paderborn University is finding a new supercomputer. “Noctua two,” the task identify given to the next enlargement phase of the “Noctua” installed in 2018, will be developed by sector chief Atos and is expected to be installed by the conclusion of the calendar year. With a whole funding volume of additional than fourteen million euros, it will be the very first supercomputer to go into the new HPC (Large Effectiveness Computing) facility at the Paderborn Heart for Parallel Computing (Personal computer^two). The research creating is virtually done. 50 {ae9868201ea352e02dded42c9f03788806ac4deebecf3e725332939dc9b357ad} of the HPC technique is getting financed by the Condition of North Rhine-Westfalia and the federal government’s research buildings application, as properly as through expenditure sources from the freshly founded Verbund der Nationalen Hochleistungsrechenzentren (Association of Nationwide Large Effectiveness Computing Centers, NHR), which Paderborn University joined at the commencing of the calendar year.

Atos will provide, assemble and put in Noctua two, which will be operated by the PC2, and will also cope with upkeep of the technique for the up coming 5 many years. The Personal computer^two has in depth expertise with operating significant parallel laptop programs and superior-performance computing (HPC). Scientists there have been finding out the successful use of supercomputers for numerous many years currently, and they operate superior performance laptop programs that serve college researchers in the course of the whole Ostwestfalen-Lippe region and nationwide as part of the NHR affiliation. “With Atos, we have an field-leading associate at our aspect. The Paderborn Heart for Parallel Computing gives major researchers accessibility to ultramodern computing capability. In purchase to acquire the up coming stage towards upcoming protection in this spot, we want seasoned authorities to help us acquire and operate electricity-successful HPC programs. Atos impressed us with its a long time of expertise,” states Prof. Dr. Christian Plessl from Paderborn University and Chair of the Personal computer^two.

The new technique from Atos has really low in general operating charges, in individual many thanks to the absolutely free-cooling aspect of the BullSequana XH2000. Its patented direct liquid cooling (DLC) approach makes use of one hundred per cent incredibly hot drinking water, which implies it consumes a lot less electricity than equivalent programs and lowers in general electricity consumption. For the college, that implies electricity-successful procedure of the superior-performance programs. Using the condition-of-the-art Atos technology will give Paderborn University the required foundation for superior-top quality, well timed and flexible data examination. The use of revolutionary technologies also implies extensive-phrase expenditure protection for the college, and handles the greatest doable selection of applications – for occasion in depth simulations for physics and chemistry or device mastering, all of which demand great processing electrical power.

“The most current technologies and very first-class IT products are the foundation for numerous scientific scientific tests. That’s why we are so happy to be equipped to create even greater framework situations for countrywide and global chopping-edge research with Noctua two,” states Professor Birgitt Riegraf, President of Paderborn University.

“As the leading European company in the spot of supercomputing, Atos is in the most effective posture to equip Paderborn University and its research with exceptional technology. We are happy that we have been equipped to gain the tender, and we will present Paderborn University with the modern, highly obtainable and flexible supercomputer infrastructure, which include many years of upkeep guidance, that is necessary for outstanding science and research,” states Dr. Martin Matzke, Head of Big Facts & Safety Atos Central Europe.

“In purchase to warranty the most effective doable top quality for scientific simulations and data examination, and to ensure that Paderborn University continues to be properly-positioned for the upcoming, modern IT infrastructure is important. At the identical time, expense-performance is important in operating these modern programs. That especially involves electrical power consumption and cooling,” states Simone Probst, Vice President for Financial and Personnel Administration at Paderborn University. The obstacle was to obtain the ideal mix of the most effective performance and functionality offerings, low in general operating charges – especially for electricity performance and drinking water cooling – the configuration of different nodes (computing nodes, FPGA nodes, superior-velocity community, parallel storage technique) and acceptable functionality for the cluster administration technique (user surroundings).

Dr. Jens Simon, Plant Manager for the Personal computer^two, is looking ahead to the installation of the new laptop: “With additional than one hundred forty,000 processor cores from the most current AMD Milan 7763 CPU era and the especially superior-performance Nvidia A100-40 GPU accelerators, we are moving into a entire new dimension of processing electrical power. It will provide our end users a really successful big-scale research device that characteristics the most current technologies.”

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Atos will also be at the digital and on-need ISC, the global Meeting for HPC, device mastering and superior-performance data analytics from 24 June – two July. Discover out additional about our convention classes as properly as new methods to be launched at the party listed here.

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Specialized facts:
BullSequana XH2000: For all computing nodes cooled with incredibly hot drinking 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 technique (6PB of usable storage)
Atos Wise Administration Heart (SMC) software suite for technique administration

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