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

one hundred forty,000 processing cores, the quite hottest era of higher-tech features, and compact enough to suit within a squash court docket – Paderborn University is acquiring a new supercomputer. “Noctua two,” the challenge name provided to the next growth phase of the “Noctua” installed in 2018, will be built by industry chief Atos and is predicted to be installed by the close of the year. With a full financing quantity of additional than 14 million euros, it will be the initially supercomputer to transfer into the new HPC (Higher Overall performance Computing) facility at the Paderborn Centre for Parallel Computing (Personal computertwo). The exploration creating is approximately done. Fifty percent of the HPC procedure is becoming financed by the State of North Rhine-Westfalia and the federal government’s exploration structures software, as perfectly as by means of investment decision resources from the newly launched Verbund der Nationalen Hochleistungsrechenzentren (Affiliation of Countrywide Higher Overall performance Computing Centers, NHR), which Paderborn University joined at the commencing of the year.

Atos will supply, assemble and put in Noctua two, which will be operated by the PC2, and will also manage upkeep of the procedure for the subsequent 5 many years. The Personal computertwo has comprehensive encounter with working huge parallel computer system units and higher-overall performance computing (HPC). Researchers there have been finding out the successful use of supercomputers for numerous many years previously, and they work higher overall performance computer system units that provide college scientists during the whole Ostwestfalen-Lippe location and nationwide as aspect of the NHR affiliation. “With Atos, we have an field-main companion at our side. The Paderborn Centre for Parallel Computing presents prime scientists accessibility to ultramodern computing potential. In get to consider the subsequent stage toward long run stability in this spot, we have to have knowledgeable authorities to aid us produce and work power-successful HPC units. Atos impressed us with its many years of encounter,” suggests Prof. Dr. Christian Plessl from Paderborn University and Chair of the Personal computertwo.

The new procedure from Atos has quite very low in general working fees, in specific thanks to the totally free-cooling feature of the BullSequana XH2000. Its patented immediate liquid cooling (DLC) procedure takes advantage of one hundred {312eb768b2a7ccb699e02fa64aff7eccd2b9f51f6a579147b7ed58dbcded82a2} warm water, which suggests it consumes a lot less power than comparable units and cuts down in general power intake. For the college, that suggests power-successful procedure of the higher-overall performance units. Employing the point out-of-the-artwork Atos technology will give Paderborn University the vital foundation for higher-excellent, timely and versatile knowledge assessment. The use of progressive technologies also suggests lengthy-phrase investment decision stability for the college, and covers the greatest probable assortment of programs – for occasion comprehensive simulations for physics and chemistry or device studying, all of which require huge processing energy.

“The hottest technologies and initially-course IT machines are the basis for numerous scientific studies. That is why we are so happy to be capable to make even greater framework circumstances for national and international reducing-edge exploration with Noctua two,” suggests Professor Birgitt Riegraf, President of Paderborn University.

“As the main European service provider in the spot of supercomputing, Atos is in the very best position to equip Paderborn University and its exploration with exceptional technology. We are happy that we were being capable to earn the tender, and we will deliver Paderborn University with the fashionable, extremely out there and versatile supercomputer infrastructure, together with many years of upkeep assist, that is wanted for great science and exploration,” suggests Dr. Martin Matzke, Head of Massive Data & Stability Atos Central Europe.

“In get to guarantee the very best probable excellent for scientific simulations and knowledge assessment, and to be certain that Paderborn University continues to be perfectly-positioned for the long run, fashionable IT infrastructure is critical. At the similar time, price tag-efficiency is crucial in working these fashionable units. That particularly incorporates energy intake and cooling,” suggests Simone Probst, Vice President for Economic and Staff Administration at Paderborn University. The obstacle was to find the optimal combination of the very best overall performance and functionality offerings, very low in general working fees – particularly for power efficiency and water cooling – the configuration of various nodes (computing nodes, FPGA nodes, higher-velocity community, parallel storage procedure) and suitable functionality for the cluster management procedure (person surroundings).

Dr. Jens Simon, Plant Manager for the Personal computertwo, is hunting forward to the installation of the new computer system: “With additional than one hundred forty,000 processor cores from the hottest AMD Milan 7763 CPU era and the particularly higher-overall performance Nvidia A100-forty GPU accelerators, we are moving into a whole new dimension of processing energy. It will offer you our customers a quite successful massive-scale exploration machine that features the hottest technologies.”

Atos is getting aspect in this year’s Forum Teratec, the Global Convention for Simulation, HPC/HPDA, AI & Quantum from 22-24 June. Go to our virtual booth, find out our alternatives and hear to our VIPs and authorities listed here.

Atos will also be at the virtual and on-need ISC, the international Convention for HPC, device studying and higher-overall performance knowledge analytics from 24 June – two July. Obtain out additional about our meeting sessions as perfectly as new alternatives to be launched at the occasion listed here.

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Specialized information:
BullSequana XH2000: For all computing nodes cooled with warm water
BullSequana X2410 with AMD Milan 7763 CPUs
BullSequana X2415 with Nvidia A100-forty GPUs
BullSequana X400 FPGA nodes
Nvidia/Mellanox InfiniBand HDR/HDR100 Interconnect
DDN 7990X storage with a Lustre file procedure (6PB of usable storage)
Atos Clever Management Centre (SMC) computer software suite for procedure management

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