Hewlett Packard Enterprise Powers the University of Edinburgh’s International Data Facility with Software, HPC & AI Solutio...
July 29 2020 - 08:00AM
Business Wire
Europe’s first new region-wide data innovation facility will
offer R&D resources to unlock regional economic growth across
science, healthcare and more using solutions powered by HPE Ezmeral
Container Platform, HPE Apollo Systems and HPE Superdome Flex
Servers
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced that it has
been chosen to power the Edinburgh International Data Facility
(EIDF), Europe’s first regional data innovation center at the
University of Edinburgh EPCC in Scotland. HPE will deliver an
end-to-end infrastructure featuring its industry-leading
high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI)
solutions powered by HPE Apollo Systems and HPE Superdome Flex
Servers, as well as HPE Ezmeral Container Platform software
capabilities.
The deal, which has an expected value of more than US $125
million over 10 years, will help 1,000 public, private and
non-profit organizations to develop products and services using
R&D and other data-driven programs, with a long-term vision to
establish the Edinburgh region as the Data Capital of Europe.
As a hub for innovation, the EIDF will enable R&D on
initiatives focused on addressing global issues such as food
production, climate change, space exploration and
genetically-tailored healthcare. The EIDF will offer researchers
access to HPC and AI technologies to apply analytics to modeling
and simulation to increase accuracy of results and speed
time-to-discovery.
The EIDF will also improve overall insights by allowing users to
securely access shared datasets and analytics from public and
private sources.
The EIDF will play a critical role in the region's Data Driven
Innovation (DDI) program, which involves greater collaboration
between industry, the public sector and academia. The new facility
will power five DDI hub sites with vital infrastructure to meet
complex long-term project demands. The DDI program was pioneered by
the University of Edinburgh, along with Herriot Watt University, to
tackle societal and industrial challenges and deliver benefits from
the data economy, while improving the digital and data skills of
over 100,000 people from across the region.
“We are pleased to be working with HPE to deliver what we
believe is the only facility of its kind in Europe focused
specifically on data-driven regional growth,” said Mark Parsons,
Director of EPCC at the University of Edinburgh. “With the
Edinburgh International Data Facility, we are combining computing
and data resources to create a facility that will allow
organizations to use data to innovate throughout their
organizations. HPE is uniquely positioned to provide the spectrum
of infrastructure and services, as well as the flexibility that
this project demands.”
To support its mission, EIDF turned to HPE to uniquely deliver
an end-to-end infrastructure that seamlessly combines advanced HPC,
AI, container, and software technologies into a single framework to
enable collaborative, optimal experiences across broad groups of
users.
As AI and ML practices are becoming integral to scientific
research and engineering, managing AI workloads and applications at
scale is a critical requirement for EIDF. In order to address these
requirements, EIDF is deploying the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform
running on HPE Apollo Systems that are purpose-built to support
HPC, deep learning and other data-intensive workloads.
Additionally, the platform will also run HPE Superdome Flex Servers
to support applications requiring large in-memory processing.
The HPE Ezmeral Container Platform provides native Kubernetes
support and enables self-service AI / ML applications for EIDF
scientists, with flexible use of accelerators such as GPUs. It will
also allow developers to standardize machine learning workflows and
accelerate AI deployments from months to days with the HPE Ezmeral
ML Ops solution. The solution enables developers to streamline and
speed up the entire machine learning model lifecycle from
proof-of-concept and pilot stages, all the way through deployment,
using a DevOps-like process to standardize models.
It also includes pre-integrated persistent data storage in the
form of the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric file system, for
high-performance and high-throughput advanced analytics. This
allows EIDF scientists to easily access the data they need in a
secure multitenant and collaborative manner, accelerate the
deployment of machine learning workloads and models, and get to
insights faster.
HPE will also deliver the Cray Shasta ClusterStor E1000 system,
which utilizes tailored software and hardware features to meet
high-performance storage requirements of any size. It is
purpose-built to support EIDF’s ongoing data growth and converged
HPC and analytics workloads using intelligent data management. EIDF
will gain 20 petabytes of storage capacity with the new system
which will be used for the regional data facility and for vital
COVID-19 research at the University of Edinburgh.
“HPE is proud to embark on this long-term initiative with the
University of Edinburgh, following a highly competitive tender
process,” said Lee Rand, Director of high-performance computing
and artificial intelligence at HPE EMEA. “We were chosen due to
the flexibility and reliability offered through our end-to-end
solutions portfolio, and because we were one of the very few
organizations able to seamlessly combine all of the Edinburgh
International Data Facility’s requirements into a single framework.
In the data-centric era deriving insights and value from across
multiple datasets will be a key to success for business and
government alike. We look forward to boosting the UK’s capacity for
data-driven innovation through this initiative.”
Shipment and installation are planned to begin immediately, with
first orders already underway. The agreement is for a single source
framework through to 2030, with the EIDF expected to be fully
operational in the fall of 2020.
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud
platform-as-a-service company that helps organizations accelerate
outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere.
Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to
advance the way we live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and
intelligent technology solutions, with a consistent experience
across all clouds and edges, to help customers develop new business
models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance.
For more information, visit: www.hpe.com.
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