SAN JOSE, California,
Nov. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Asetek,
the leader in flexible, reliable and proven liquid cooling for high
performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI),
announced that its Direct-to-Chip (D2C) liquid cooling technology
is cooling thirteen installations on the November 2018 edition of the TOP500 list of the
fastest supercomputers in the world. Three of the installations are
in the TOP20, including the fastest supercomputers in Taiwan and Japan.
Ranked #7 on the TOP500 list is the fastest supercomputer in
Japan, the AI Bridging Cloud
Infrastructure system (ABCI) installed at the National Institute of
Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). This was
installed by Asetek's OEM partner Fujitsu.
Ranked #14 on the TOP500 list is the Oakforest-PACS system
installed at the Joint Center for Advanced High Performance
Computing (JCAHPC), also installed by Asetek's OEM partner
Fujitsu.
#20 on the list is Taiwania 2 installed at the National Center
for High-Performance Computing (NCHC) by Asetek's OEM partner
QCT.
Other systems in Asia include
the ITO subsystem at Kyushu University
(#37), the Grand Chariot system at Hokkaido
University (#95), Afinity at Tohoku University (#126), Big
Waterfall at RIKEN (#193), Taiwania at NCHC (#237), and the NSCC
cluster at the National Supercomputing Centre Singapore (#420) –
all installed by Asetek's OEM partner Fujitsu.
Clusters in North America on
the list include Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Grizzly
(#204) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Cayenne (#275),
Serrano (#276) and Eclipse (#308). These clusters were installed by
Asetek's OEM partner Penguin Computing under the National Nuclear
Security Administration (NNSA) Commodity Technology Systems-1
(CTS-1) contract.
All thirteen TOP500 clusters were also ranked on the Green500
list, eight of which were in the Green100, led by ABCI installed at
AIST ranked at #4. Others included Taiwania 2 (#10), Oakforest-PACS
(#29), Taiwania (#45), SNL Cayenne (#82), Serrano (#83) and Eclipse
(#93) clusters, as well as the LANL Grizzly (#85) cluster.
"We are pleased that Asetek has seen yet another increase in
TOP500 installations – moving from eleven to thirteen installations
in the latest edition of the TOP500 list, with three systems in the
TOP20," said John Hamill, Chief
Operating Officer at Asetek. "HPC and AI workloads require high
performance processors in dense configurations. The TOP500 list is
proof positive that Asetek liquid cooling is being recognized as an
optimal solution to cool the dramatically higher power densities of
the racks deployed for these applications."
To solve the heat management challenges associated with HPC and
AI workloads, Asetek and Intel have recently collaborated to bring
warm water liquid cooling to the latest Intel® Compute Modules
featuring Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors and Intel® Xeon® Phi™
Processors with both Asetek's D2C and Liquid Assisted Air Cooling
technologies.
"We look forward to seeing HPC and AI clusters based on
liquid-cooled Intel Compute Modules make future TOP500 lists. We
are extremely proud to be the only liquid cooling solution
validated and factory installed by Intel," continued Hamill.
For more information on Asetek's highly flexible liquid cooling
platform that is ideal for efficiently cooling the latest server
designs, please visit www.asetek.com.
The TOP500 List
The first version of what became today's TOP500 list started as
an exercise for a small conference in Germany in June
1993. Out of curiosity, the authors decided to revisit the
list in November 1993 to see how
things had changed. About that time, they realized they might be
onto something and decided to continue compiling the list, which is
now a much-anticipated, much-watched and much-debated twice-yearly
event.
The TOP500 list is compiled by Erich
Strohmaier and Horst Simon of
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Jack
Dongarra of the University of
Tennessee, Knoxville; and Martin
Meuer of ISC Group, Germany. To learn more, visit
https://www.top500.org/.
The Green500 List
The Green500 list ranks the top 500 supercomputers in the world
by energy efficiency. The focus of performance-at-any-cost computer
operations has led to the emergence of supercomputers that consume
vast amounts of electrical power and produce so much heat that
large cooling facilities must be constructed to ensure proper
performance. To address this trend, the Green500 list puts a
premium on energy-efficient performance for sustainable
supercomputing. To learn more, visit
https://www.top500.org/green500/.
About Asetek
Asetek is the global leader in liquid cooling solutions for data
centers, servers and PCs. Founded in 2000, Asetek is headquartered
in Denmark and has operations in
the United States, Germany, China and Taiwan. Asetek is listed on the Oslo Stock
Exchange (ASETEK.OL).
Media contact
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Westfall
Sr. Marketing Manager at Asetek
+1-408-644-5616
mwe@asetek.com
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