Hewlett Packard Enterprise Builds New Supercomputer for France’s GENCI-CINES to Advance Nation’s Open Science and R&D
November 15 2021 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
France’s national HPC centers gain significantly powerful
supercomputer using advanced high performance computing and AI
solutions to make breakthrough discoveries in medicine, energy, and
materials science
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that it
is building one of Europe’s most powerful supercomputers to be
installed and operated at CINES (National Computing Center for
Higher Education), which is one of the three high performance
computing (HPC) centers in France. The new supercomputer was
procured by GENCI, a national French agency which invests and
provides HPC resources to support France’s academic and industrial
research communities.
The new supercomputer, which GENCI and CINES have named
“Adastra,” will be built using the HPE Cray EX system, a purposely
engineered platform to support next-generation supercomputing and
AI needs such as with exascale-class systems that will deliver up
to 10X more performance than today’s most powerful supercomputers.
As part of Adastra’s design, HPE will also feature powerful compute
with 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors and accelerated compute with
newly launched AMD Instinct™ MI200 accelerators to tackle and
process data and image-intensive workloads.
By combining significantly advanced capabilities in modeling,
simulation, AI, machine learning and analytics, Adastra will help
scientists and researchers harness insights faster, with more
accuracy, to advance research targeting key focus areas,
including:
- Developing renewable energy to improve France’s energy
security, reducing the need to import fuels and overall, conserving
the nation's natural resources
- Discovering new, highly effective materials that can be used to
create next-generation batteries
- Advancing a range of medical research to aid drug design and
treatment
“We are honored to have been selected by GENCI, which empowers
some of the world’s leading research centers, to deliver advanced
high performance computing (HPC) and AI solutions using
exascale-era technologies in support of propelling France’s R&D
efforts,” said Justin Hotard, senior vice president and general
manager, HPC and AI, at HPE. “The design of the Adastra
supercomputer is a result of a close collaboration between GENCI,
CINES, HPE and AMD to deliver a specialized, high-performing system
to harness larger data sets, including optimizing AI and machine
learning needs, to accelerate discovery and innovation at a faster
rate.”
With the latest HPC and AI technologies, Adastra will deliver
more than 20X faster performance than CINES’ existing supercomputer
at more than 70 petaflops of performance to process complex
scientific data, at larger scale.
"Adastra will allow French research teams to position themselves
even more strongly on the path to exascale, and to prepare for the
change associated with extremely large-scale resources and new
technologies/services,” said Philippe Lavocat, chairman and CEO of
GENCI. “The realization of this major step came from the dialogue
and the expertise of CINES, GENCI and HPE teams.”
“This new Adastra supercomputer is double challenging for CINES:
massively switch users to boosting GPU while overcoming the
electrical consumption. The 21x jump in computing power is dizzying
compared to the current machine, while power consumption only grows
by 1.5x for green HPC,” said Boris Dintrans, director of CINES.
“The GPU support provided by AMD, using the HPE Cray EX system,
allowing Adastra to ramp up, is the key element that will ensure
the success takeoff of researchers to the stars!”
“AMD EPYC Processors and AMD Instinct Accelerators continue to
demonstrate exceptional innovation and growing adoption in the HPC
industry when performance, scale and capabilities are needed for
the demanding HPC workloads,” said Forrest Norrod, senior vice
president and general manager, Data Center and Embedded Solutions
Business Group, AMD. “We are proud to be working with CINES, GENCI
and HPE on the Adastra supercomputer to that aim to solve some of
the world’s biggest challenges.”
Adastra Strengthens France’s HPC and AI Resources for New
Generation of Insights
By using the HPE Cray EX system, which delivers end-to-end
exascale era technologies, spanning compute, software, storage and
networking, GENCI’ and CINES’ scientists, researchers and engineers
will achieve the following benefits:
- Powerful compute and accelerated compute to improve
modeling, simulations and data and image-intensive workflows
using optimized 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors combined with AMD
Instinct™ MI250X accelerators in one partition, and next generation
AMD EPYC processors, codenamed “Genoa” in the second
partition.
- Addressing demands for higher speed and congestion control
for larger data-intensive and AI workloads with HPE Slingshot,
the world’s only high performance Ethernet fabric designed for HPC
and AI solutions
- Expanded storage to support and share complex workloads
in modeling, simulation and AI using the Cray ClusterStor E1000
storage system from HPE and HPE Data Management Framework
- Enabling fine-grained centralized monitoring and management
for optimal performance with the HPE Performance Cluster
Management, a system management software solution, and a fully
integrated software suite to optimize HPC and AI applications
using the HPE Cray Programming Environment
Adastra will be based in CINES, in Montpellier, France. The
system will be installed and put into use in 2022.
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) is the global
edge-to-cloud 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
people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and intelligent
technology solutions as a service. With offerings spanning Cloud
Services, Compute, High Performance Computing & AI, Intelligent
Edge, Software, and Storage, HPE provides a consistent experience
across all clouds and edges, helping customers develop new business
models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance.
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