“A Whole New Dimension of Processing Power”: Paderborn University Commissions Atos to Build a New Supercomputer

München (Germany), Paris, France, June 23 2021

140,000 processing cores, the pretty hottest technology of significant-tech attributes, and compact sufficient to in good shape inside of a squash courtroom – Paderborn University is obtaining a new supercomputer. “Noctua 2,” the venture identify presented to the 2nd expansion stage of the “Noctua” mounted in 2018, will be developed by industry leader Atos and is anticipated to be mounted by the finish of the year. With a whole financing quantity of more than 14 million euros, it will be the initial supercomputer to move into the new HPC (Substantial Overall performance Computing) facility at the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (Personal computer2). The investigation developing is practically finished. 50 percent of the HPC method is being financed by the Point out of North Rhine-Westfalia and the federal government’s investigation buildings application, as properly as by means of financial investment sources from the newly started Verbund der Nationalen Hochleistungsrechenzentren (Association of National Substantial Overall performance Computing Centers, NHR), which Paderborn University joined at the commencing of the year.

Atos will deliver, assemble and set up Noctua 2, which will be operated by the PC2, and will also deal with maintenance of the method for the following 5 years. The Personal computer2 has considerable encounter with operating significant parallel laptop or computer systems and significant-effectiveness computing (HPC). Researchers there have been researching the efficient use of supercomputers for a lot of years previously, and they function significant effectiveness laptop or computer systems that provide university researchers throughout the total Ostwestfalen-Lippe area and nationwide as portion of the NHR affiliation. “With Atos, we have an field-primary companion at our facet. The Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing presents prime researchers accessibility to ultramodern computing ability. In purchase to acquire the following phase toward potential safety in this place, we have to have expert specialists to assistance us develop and function strength-efficient HPC systems. Atos impressed us with its decades of encounter,” claims Prof. Dr. Christian Plessl from Paderborn University and Chair of the Personal computer2.

The new method from Atos has pretty low overall operating expenditures, in certain many thanks to the totally free-cooling function of the BullSequana XH2000. Its patented immediate liquid cooling (DLC) course of action employs one hundred p.c sizzling drinking water, which implies it consumes fewer strength than comparable systems and minimizes overall strength consumption. For the university, that implies strength-efficient procedure of the significant-effectiveness systems. Utilizing the state-of-the-art Atos know-how will give Paderborn University the essential basis for significant-top quality, timely and flexible data assessment. The use of ground breaking technologies also implies prolonged-phrase financial investment safety for the university, and addresses the best possible vary of purposes – for instance considerable simulations for physics and chemistry or equipment discovering, all of which involve tremendous processing electric power.

“The hottest technologies and initial-class IT products are the foundation for a lot of scientific scientific studies. Which is why we are so happy to be in a position to generate even far better framework circumstances for countrywide and global reducing-edge investigation with Noctua 2,” claims Professor Birgitt Riegraf, President of Paderborn University.

“As the primary European service provider in the place of supercomputing, Atos is in the finest posture to equip Paderborn University and its investigation with outstanding know-how. We are happy that we had been in a position to gain the tender, and we will give Paderborn University with the modern-day, extremely readily available and flexible supercomputer infrastructure, including years of maintenance assistance, that is necessary for fantastic science and investigation,” claims Dr. Martin Matzke, Head of Significant Info & Safety Atos Central Europe.

“In purchase to assure the finest possible top quality for scientific simulations and data assessment, and to be certain that Paderborn University stays properly-positioned for the potential, modern-day IT infrastructure is crucial. At the similar time, value-efficiency is essential in operating these modern-day systems. That particularly includes electric power consumption and cooling,” claims Simone Probst, Vice President for Financial and Personnel Administration at Paderborn University. The challenge was to obtain the ideal blend of the finest effectiveness and operation offerings, low overall operating expenditures – particularly for strength efficiency and drinking water cooling – the configuration of a variety of nodes (computing nodes, FPGA nodes, significant-speed community, parallel storage method) and acceptable operation for the cluster management method (consumer natural environment).

Dr. Jens Simon, Plant Supervisor for the Personal computer2, is searching ahead to the set up of the new laptop or computer: “With more than 140,000 processor cores from the hottest AMD Milan 7763 CPU technology and the particularly significant-effectiveness Nvidia A100-40 GPU accelerators, we are transferring into a full new dimension of processing electric power. It will offer our customers a pretty efficient massive-scale investigation unit that attributes the hottest technologies.”

Atos is getting portion in this year’s Discussion board Teratec, the International Convention for Simulation, HPC/HPDA, AI & Quantum from 22-24 June. Stop by our digital booth, discover our remedies and pay attention to our VIPs and specialists right here.

Atos will also be at the digital and on-desire ISC, the global Convention for HPC, equipment discovering and significant-effectiveness data analytics from 24 June – 2 July. Discover out more about our conference periods as properly as new remedies to be introduced at the function right here.

###

Specialized information and facts:
BullSequana XH2000: For all computing nodes cooled with sizzling drinking water
BullSequana X2410 with AMD Milan 7763 CPUs
BullSequana X2415 with Nvidia A100-40 GPUs
BullSequana X400 FPGA nodes
Nvidia/Mellanox InfiniBand HDR/HDR100 Interconnect
DDN 7990X storage with a Lustre file method (6PB of usable storage)
Atos Wise Management Center (SMC) program suite for method management

Press speak to:  Stefan Pieper | Tel: +forty nine 5251/178-4686875 | E-mail: [email protected]