Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology Selects Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Build New Supercomputer to Advance Academi...
February 26 2021 - 10:14AM
Business Wire
Sweden’s largest technical university advances R&D across
life sciences, automotive, transportation and energy industries
with next-generation system, powered by the HPE Cray EX
supercomputer
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced that it is
building a new supercomputer for KTH Royal Institute of Technology
(KTH) in Stockholm, one of Sweden’s largest technical universities
dedicated to science and engineering research. The new
supercomputer, which is funded by Swedish National Infrastructure
for Computing (SNIC), will enable a significant level of
computational performance, powered by the HPE Cray EX
supercomputer, to improve modeling and simulation from complex data
to make breakthroughs in academia and for a range of industrial
areas, including drug design, renewable energy, and advanced
automotive and fleet vehicles.
The new supercomputer, which KTH has named “Dardel” in honor of
the Swedish novelist, Thora Dardel, and her first husband, Nils
Dardel, the post-impressionist painter, will replace KTH’s current
flagship system, Beskow, and will be housed on KTH’s main campus at
the PDC Center for High Performance Computing.
Sweden gains new supercomputer to bolster R&D and unlock
industrial innovation
SNIC’s new flagship system, Dardel, will be built using the HPE
Cray EX supercomputer, which features an advanced high performance
computing architecture designed for next-generation supercomputing,
such as for exascale-class systems that are 10X faster than today’s
most powerful supercomputers.
The HPE Cray EX supercomputer will include HPE Slingshot for
purpose-built HPC networking to address demands for higher speed
and congestion control for data-intensive workloads. It will also
feature next generation AMD EPYC™ processors and AMD Instinct™ GPU
accelerators to improve efficiency and achieve the performance
required to process and harness insights from computationally
complex data.
With a theoretical peak performance of 13.5 petaflops1, Dardel
will be significantly faster than the current flagship system at
PDC. The advanced capabilities of the new system that HPE is
delivering will help Swedish researchers tackle challenging
research areas, including computational fluid dynamics, biophysics
and quantum chemistry, that are used in R&D supporting Swedish
companies across the manufacturing, automotive and transportation,
medical, agriculture, oil and gas, aeronautical and space
industries. Example companies using PDC’s HPC systems for R&D
include trucking manufacturer Scania and several technical
consulting companies such as Sweco, Tyréns and FSDynamics.
“High performance computing (HPC) technologies are broadly used
in R&D to advance the technologies that go into the products
and services we use each day. For decades, the PDC Center for High
Performance Computing at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology has
empowered a community of researchers to make breakthroughs across a
range of industries using HPC,” said Peter Ungaro, senior vice
president and general manager, HPC and Mission Critical Solutions
at HPE. “We are honored to have been selected by the KTH Royal
Institute of Technology to deliver the latest HPE Cray EX
supercomputer with next-generation AMD technologies and provide an
even greater level of performance to improve and expand Swedish
academic research and drive innovation for Swedish industrial
companies.”
HPE to deliver KTH’s Dardel in two phases
HPE will install the first phase of the supercomputer this
summer. It will feature over 65,000 CPU cores and it be ready for
research use in July 2021. The second phase of the installation
will consist of GPUs which will be installed later this year and be
ready for use in January 2022
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1) KTH’s Dardel supercomputer will have a
theoretical peak performance of 13.5 petaflops after the two phases
of the system have been completed
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