Hewlett Packard Enterprise Selected to Build New Supercomputer for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory to Accelerate Discovery of Renewable Power
December 01 2021 - 3:00PM
Business Wire
NREL’s new Kestrel supercomputer will deliver more than 5X
faster performance to tackle ongoing R&D to unlock energy
efficiency and renewable energy for tomorrow’s clean energy
systems
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) announced today that it
is has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National
Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a world leader in advancing
energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies, to build a new
supercomputer to support ongoing R&D that will transform energy
from geothermal, water, wind, solar, and fuels. The new
supercomputer will also support energy initiatives related to
security, resilience, storage, systems integration, energy justice,
and community transitions, as well as transportation and mobility,
buildings, and advanced manufacturing.
In continuing its naming theme of supercomputers that honors
various bird species, such as with previous system generations
named “Peregrine” and “Eagle,” NREL has named the new supercomputer
“Kestrel,” after the American falcon.
HPE will build Kestrel using the HPE Cray EX supercomputer, a
next-generation high performance computing (HPC) platform that
provides end-to-end HPC solutions to scale performance and harness
insights more efficiently through advanced modeling, simulation, AI
and analytics capabilities. As the dedicated HPC system for DOE’s
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Kestrel
will play a critical role in computing across the research
portfolio, advancing research in computational materials, continuum
mechanics, and large-scale simulation and planning for future
energy systems.
The HPE Cray EX also features liquid-cooling capabilities that
support NREL’s showcase facility for demonstrating data center
efficiency, which has achieved a world-leading annualized average
power usage effectiveness (PUE) rating of 1.036.
“HPE has a long-standing collaboration with the National
Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) where we have developed joint
high performance computing and AI solutions to innovate new
approaches that reduce energy consumption and lower operating
costs,” said Bill Mannel, vice president and general manager, HPC,
at HPE. “We look forward to continuing our relationship with NREL
and are honored to have been selected to deliver an advanced
supercomputer with Kestrel that will significantly augment the
laboratory’s efforts in making breakthrough discoveries of new,
affordable energy sources to prepare for a sustainable future.”
For a significant boost in computing capacity, HPE will feature
next generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (code-named
“Sapphire Rapids”), NVIDIA A100NEXT Tensor Core GPUs to accelerate
AI, and HPE Slingshot, an Ethernet fabric purposely built for
next-generation supercomputing to address higher speed and
congestion control for larger data-intensive and AI workloads.
Additionally, NREL’s Kestrel will deliver more than 75 petabytes of
parallel file system storage using the Cray Clusterstor E1000
storage system from HPE for expanded storage and intelligent
tiering capabilities to tackle complex, data-intensive
workflows.
"NREL is excited to officially announce the procurement of our
new supercomputer,” said Kris Munch, Lab Program Manager of
Advanced Computing at NREL. “Kestrel will help EERE researchers and
industry partners tackle today’s toughest energy challenges and
bring the United States one step closer to a clean energy
future.”
Once completed in 2023, Kestrel will have more than five times
greater performance than NREL’s existing system, Eagle, with
approximately 44 petaflops of peak performance. It will be hosted
in NREL’s Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) data center in
Golden, Colorado.
HPE and NREL Continue HPC and AI Collaboration to Drive
Innovation for Cleaner Energy
In addition to co-designing the last three supercomputers for
NREL, HPE and NREL have collaborated on other projects that use HPC
and AI in innovative ways to build technologies for energy
efficiency. These include an AIOps R&D project that involves
developing AI and machine learning technologies to monitor,
automate and improve operational efficiency, including resiliency
and energy usage, in data centers, and an initiative to demonstrate
hydrogen fuel cell-powered data centers to deliver smarter, more
energy-conscious computing environments.
To learn more about NREL’s new Kestrel system, please visit its
program news here.
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
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Services, Compute, High Performance Computing & AI, Intelligent
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