Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Build $35M+ Supercomputer for the National Center for Atmospheric Research to Improve Predictio...
January 27 2021 - 8:00AM
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National Center for
Atmospheric Research (NCAR) will use the new system to develop
accurate digital models, from complex computations, for a wide
range of earth’s phenomenal events
New system, powered by the HPE
Cray EX supercomputer, is nearly 3.5X faster than NCAR’s existing
system which it will replace in 2022
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced it was awarded
a $35+ million contract to build a new supercomputer using its
end-to-end high performance computing (HPC) technologies for the
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), a U.S. federally
funded R&D center focused on advancing knowledge of
geosciences, including meteorology, climate change, and solar
activity.
The new system will be installed later this year at the National
Center of Atmospheric Research -Wyoming Supercomputing Center
(NWSC) in Cheyenne, Wyoming and put into use in 2022. It is a
significant upgrade to NCAR’s existing system, Cheyenne, running on
HPE’s world-leading HPC solutions, which include compute, storage,
networking and software and delivering nearly 3.5X faster speed.
Latest system design will help NCAR process compute and
image-intensive data to create digital models of various
occurrences, from wildfires and solar storms to hurricanes and
droughts, with greater accuracy.
"This new system, powered by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is a
major step forward in supercomputing power, providing the
scientific community with the most cutting-edge technology to
better understand the Earth system,” said Anke Kamrath, director,
Computational and Information Systems Laboratory at the National
Center of Atmospheric Research. “The resulting research will lead
to new insights into potential threats ranging from severe weather
and solar storms to climate change, helping to advance the
knowledge needed for improved predictions that will strengthen
society’s resilience to potential disasters.”
Transforming Research in Geosciences with Next-Generation
Supercomputing
The system will be powered by HPE Cray EX supercomputer, which
is a purposefully engineered HPC architecture to enable large,
next-generation supercomputing, including exascale systems, and
features the latest compute and dedicated AI performance. NCAR will
use the system to tackle research in a wide range of earth’s
phenomenal events, including determining how to make some
predictions up to a decade in advance. Example research
includes:
- Improving predictions of seasonal water supply, drought risk
and flooding through detailed modeling and forecasting tools to
inform water management experts, public utilities and farmers to
help manage water resources.
- Managing wildfire risk by simulating complex
representations of physical processes in a given region, which can
help forecasts in wooded areas that are becoming increasingly prone
to severe wildfires such as in U.S. states California and Colorado
or in countries like Argentina, Australia and Indonesia.
Simulations will factor in data from local winds and air density,
soil moisture, and vegetation patterns such as types of grass and
leaves.
- Foreseeing hazards and impacts of climate change from
extreme weather conditions such as thunderstorms, tornadoes,
and hurricanes. Better understanding patterns and processes
involved helps narrow in radius of these forthcoming natural
events.
- Understanding the dangers of solar storms using
detailed, three-dimensional simulations of the sun's turbulent
plasma flows and magnetic fields to enable predictions of potential
solar impact that can disrupt the earth's atmosphere and trigger
space weather events that threaten communications systems and power
grids.
“We are inspired by leading R&D centers, such as the
National Center of Atmospheric Research (NCAR), in their research
efforts of applying high-performance computing to understanding
earth systems, including severe weather events and wildfires, that
lead to informed decisions in earth’s keeping people safe and
preserving ecosystems,” said Bill Mannel, vice president and
general manager, HPC, at HPE. “We are honored to have been selected
by NCAR to build its next-generation supercomputer that will tackle
complex computational research for a range of geosciences while
also making it easier for researchers to store and make that data
accessible to help communities make smarter decisions.”
Inside NCAR’s New Supercomputer
HPE will integrate the following end-to-end high-performance
computing technologies with its HPE Cray EX supercomputer to enable
a significantly advanced system with a theoretical peak performance
of 19.87 petaflops:
- Expanded storage to support and share complex workloads
in modeling, simulation and AI using the Cray ClusterStor E1000
storage system from HPE
- Purpose-built HPC networking using HPE Slingshot to
address demands for higher speed and congestion control for
data-intensive workloads
- Fully integrated software suite to optimize HPC and AI
applications using the HPE Cray Programming Environment
- Powerful compute to improve modeling and
simulation using 2nd and 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors
- Targeted AI capabilities to support data and image-intensive
workloads using NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs and NVIDIA AI and
HPC software which provide comprehensive SDKs that contain AI
frameworks, compilers, libraries, models and tools for compute
acceleration
NCAR’s new system is funded by the National Science Foundation,
an independent agency of the United States government that supports
fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of
science and engineering. For more information on the new system and
the projects it will support, please visit: New NCAR-Wyoming
Supercomputer to Accelerate Scientific Discovery.
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to
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