Thailand’s National Science and Technology Development Agency Bolsters R&D and Strengthens Nation’s Economy with New Supercomputer from Hewlett Packard Enterprise
November 30 2021 - 4:00AM
Business Wire
New supercomputer speeds time-to-insight and accelerates
innovation for Thailand’s efforts in medicine, energy sources,
weather forecasting and more with advanced modeling, simulation, AI
and analytics capabilities
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that it
is building a new supercomputer for Thailand’s National Science and
Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) that is 30X faster than its
existing system. The new supercomputer will be hosted in the NSTDA
Supercomputer center (ThaiSC), which is one Thailand’s leading
national science and technology infrastructure (NSTI) centers
within the NSTDA that delivers cutting-edge high performance
computing (HPC) resources for the national R&D’s efforts. The
system will support all research communities in Thailand across
public and private organizations.
NSTDA’s new supercomputer will be built using the HPE Cray EX
system, an end-to-end, scalable high performance computing platform
to deliver next-generation supercomputing capabilities to improve
modeling, simulation, AI and analytics. By harnessing new insights,
scientists and engineers using the new supercomputer will advance
research to innovate in key areas such as pharmaceuticals, weather
forecasting and renewable energy to bolster Thailand’s economy and
self-reliance.
“The HPE Cray EX system delivers a comprehensive, end-to-end
high performance computing (HPC) solution that is transforming
research with advanced approaches to modeling and simulation, and
powers AI initiatives that generate major insights and
breakthroughs,” said Bill Mannel, vice president and general
manager, High Performance Computing, at HPE. “We are honored to
collaborate with the National Science and Technology Development
Agency (NSTDA) to design its new supercomputer using the HPE Cray
EX system. NSTDA’s new supercomputer, which will deliver a new set
of capabilities for researchers, scientists and engineers,
represents a significant leap in innovation for Thailand that will
unlock new economic and societal value for the nation and its
people.”
New Supercomputer Fuels Innovation for Thailand to Increase
Competition and Self-Reliance
NSTDA’s new supercomputer will support ongoing R&D in the
following areas to strengthen a range of industries for Thailand,
including:
- Boosting Thailand’s healthcare industry with advanced
biopharmaceutical techniques – In an effort to support affordable
healthcare and create new drug therapies that can be manufactured
at scale, researchers use the power of supercomputing to focus on a
range of drug design development for COVID-19. This process
includes everything from modeling and simulating various
biomolecular interactions with drug candidates to supporting the
development, production, and quality control of biopharmaceuticals,
biosimilars and vaccines.
- Increasing Thailand’s energy supply with renewable and
sustainable sources – Thai researchers also turn to supercomputing
to address sustainable energy solutions, which include analyzing
data to improve sourcing for renewable energy, such as with solar
power, and energy storage, such as with batteries and accumulator.
Researchers are also focused on alternative diesel fuels to improve
ignition and combustion efficiency, while reducing pollutant
emissions, using a diesel hydrotreating process.
- Creating real-time awareness of weather conditions by
speeding up weather predictions – The supercomputer will allow
researchers to speed up forecasting for various weather events such
as air quality, flooding, earthquakes, and tsunamis. For example,
Thai researchers can simulate data to forecast concentration of
fine particulate matter (PM2.5), which is an air pollutant made up
of tiny particles in the air that impacts visibility and causes
haziness in the air. By generating timely and accurate PM2.5
forecasting to share with the public, local decision makers can
help guide air quality control and management for safety and
environmental sustainability.
Delivering an End-to-End Supercomputing Design to Tackle
Next-Generation Applications
As part of NSTDA’s new system design, HPE will also feature 496
3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors to run modeling and simulation
workloads at a faster rate, and 704 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs to
improve graphics in image-intensive data and accelerate AI in
traditional HPC workloads.
The new system will gain an additional boost of performance
through HPE Slingshot, an Ethernet fabric purpose-built for
next-generation supercomputing to address higher speed and
congestion control for larger data-intensive and AI workloads. To
help store and share a higher volume of complex data, HPE will also
integrate its Cray Clusterstor E1000 storage system for expanded
storage and intelligent tiering capabilities. The combined advanced
technologies will deliver 13 petaflops of peak performance.
NSTDA’s new supercomputer will be installed and operational 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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