Hewlett Packard Enterprise Selected to Build Czech Republic’s Most Powerful Supercomputer to Advance R&D in Science & Engin...
October 15 2020 - 3:42PM
Business Wire
IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center gains faster
performance and targeted AI capabilities for data-intensive
research using HPE Apollo systems featuring NVIDIA A100 GPUs
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced that
IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, a leading
high-performance computing (HPC) center for R&D and innovation
in the Czech Republic, has selected HPE to build the Czech
Republic’s most powerful supercomputer. The agreement is part of
the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, an initiative between the EU,
European countries and industry technology partners to coordinate
and combine their resources to develop world-class exascale
supercomputers in Europe.
The new supercomputer, with the working title “EURO_IT4I” that
was given by IT4Innovations, will be powered by supercomputing
(HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions from HPE to
advance modeling and simulation capabilities and accelerate
discovery for ongoing research in science, medicine and
engineering. Example areas that IT4Innovations aims to target by
using the system include improving weather forecasting, developing
greener and sustainable infrastructure, and advancing drug
discovery to find a cure to COVID-19.
“We are pleased to be working together with HPE to contribute to
the goal of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking to offer industry-leading
HPC and AI technologies and expertise to European and Czech
research teams,” said Vit Vondrak, Director at
IT4Innovations. “HPE is uniquely positioned to provide the
complete infrastructure and services that the next era of
supercomputing demands, and together we are delivering one of the
most powerful supercomputers in Europe that will benefit science,
industry and society as a whole.”
IT4Innovations’ Ongoing Mission to Become Europe’s Leading
Supercomputer Center
IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center is part of VSB –
Technical University of Ostrava and together with two other
institutions, forms e-INFRA CZ, the biggest e-infrastructure for
science, research and education in the Czech Republic.
With new HPE-powered solutions, IT4Innovations is expanding its
R&D resources to enable AI techniques that can significantly
improve accuracy and speed up discovery when applied to simulations
of complex scientific data. IT4Innovations’ new system will also be
significantly faster to perform more calculations than ever before
with a theoretical peak performance of 15 petaflops, an equivalent
to 15 quadrillion floating-point operations per second.
HPE will power the new supercomputer with the HPE Apollo 2000
and HPE Apollo 6500 systems that are purpose-built to support the
combination of HPC workloads, such as modeling and simulation, with
AI and other data-intensive applications. It features over 500
NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs and network for targeted AI
performance.
HPE will also include the HPE Apollo 2000 Direct Liquid Cooled
System to increase energy efficiency and power density by
transferring heat generated by the new supercomputer with a
liquid-cooled process. To further manage data processing and
storage from large AI workloads and applications at scale, HPE will
also integrate the Cray ClusterStor E1000 storage system, which
utilizes tailored software and hardware features to meet
high-performance storage requirements of any size and support
IT4Innovations’s ongoing data growth.
“HPE delivers the world’s most powerful supercomputing
technologies and by being a part of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking,
we are committed to partnering with national European organizations
to power their future pre-exascale and exascale journeys,” said
Jan Kameníček, Managing Director at HPE Czech Republic. “HPE
will closely collaborate with IT4Innovations to meet its specific
R&D needs with powerful HPC and AI technologies that will
significantly increase performance and enable new capabilities for
growing data-intensive applications. We look forward supporting
their research missions and enable their community to tackle more
complex scientific challenges and accelerate innovation.”
IT4Innovations’ EuroHPC petascale system will be shipped and
installed in 2021.
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