CINECA to Build World’s Fastest AI Supercomputer with NVIDIA and Atos
16 October 2020 - 3:35AM
NVIDIA today announced that the Italian inter-university consortium
CINECA — one of the world’s most important supercomputing centers —
will use the company’s accelerated computing platform to build the
world’s fastest AI supercomputer.
The new “Leonardo” system, built with Atos, is expected to
deliver 10 exaflops of FP16 AI performance to enable advanced AI
and HPC converged application use cases. Featuring nearly 14,000
NVIDIA Ampere architecture-based GPUs and NVIDIA® Mellanox® HDR
200Gb/s InfiniBand networking, Leonardo will propel Italy as the
global leader in AI and high performance computing research and
innovation.
Leonardo is procured by EuroHPC, a collaboration between
national governments and the European Union to develop a
world-class supercomputing ecosystem and exascale supercomputing in
Europe, and funded by the European Commission through the Italian
Ministry of University and Research.
“The EuroHPC technology roadmap for exascale in Europe is
opening doors for rapid growth and innovation in HPC and AI,” said
Marc Hamilton, vice president of solutions architecture and
engineering at NVIDIA. “We’re working with CINECA and Atos to
accelerate scientific discovery across a broad range of application
domains, providing a platform to usher in the era of exascale
computing.”
Modern scientific computing requires high-performance
simulation, data analytics, AI and machine learning, and
visualization. NVIDIA’s computing platform accelerates all of these
workloads while providing extremely high throughput and low power
consumption, making it ideal for scientific computing. Examples of
research using this approach include work in such areas as:
- Drug discovery: Using genomic analysis to identify promising
proteins that can be targeted with a specific drug to fight
COVID-19 and other diseases.
- Space exploration and research: Harnessing the tools of
multi-messenger astrophysics — which incorporates data from
wide-ranging sources, such as electromagnetic waves, gravitational
waves and neutrinos — to better understand the universe.
- Weather modeling: Predicting extreme weather conditions with
greater accuracy and speed.
The Leonardo supercomputer will help solve scientific challenges
across many disciplines, from material sciences to high-energy
physics to climate change. Scientists and researchers will be
immediately productive on the new system as it will run all the
same CUDA® software as CINECA’s existing NVIDIA-powered system,
currently the fastest higher education research supercomputer in
Europe.
“CINECA plays a critical part in evolving both the research and
industrial community in accelerated HPC application development,”
said Sanzio Bassini, director of the HPC department at CINECA. “The
Leonardo supercomputer is the result of our long-term commitment to
pushing the boundaries of what a modern exascale supercomputer can
be.”
“The call for accessibility in HPC, and the expansion of AI in
research and industries, have dramatically increased the
requirements for more flexibility, and simplicity, in how the
world’s leading supercomputers are built,” said Giuseppe di Franco,
CEO of Italy at Atos. ”As Europe’s leading supercomputer maker,
Atos has made a commitment to embracing these modern-day standards
and is raising the bar in further democratizing the world of
supercomputing.”
Leonardo will be built from Atos’ BullSequana XH2000
supercomputer nodes, each with four NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs and a
single Intel CPU. It will also use NVIDIA Mellanox HDR 200Gb/s
InfiniBand connectivity, with smart in-network computing
acceleration engines that enable extremely low latency and high
data throughput to provide the highest AI and HPC application
performance and scalability.
NVIDIA Ampere architecture GPUs can accelerate over 1,800 HPC
applications such as Quantum Espresso for material science,
SPECFEM3D for geoscience and MILC for quantum physics by up to 70x,
making previous big challenge simulations almost real-time
tasks.
Learn more about CINECA’s Leonardo system and three additional
AI supercomputers powered by NVIDIA’s accelerated computing
platform recently announced by EuroHPC.
About NVIDIANVIDIA’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) invention
of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market,
redefined modern computer graphics and revolutionized parallel
computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the
next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of
computers, robots and self-driving cars that can perceive and
understand the world. More information at
http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.
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Certain statements in this press release including, but not
limited to, statements as to: CINECA building an AI supercomputer
with NVIDIA; the benefits, performance, impact and abilities of the
new supercomputer and Leonardo system, NVIDIA’s computing platform
and NVIDIA Ampere architecture GPUs; the Leonardo system propeling
Italy as a global leader in AI and high performance computing; the
EuroHPC technology roadmap driving growth and innovation; NVIDIA
accelerating scientific discovery and providing a platform to usher
in the era of exascale computing; Leonardo helping to solve
scientific challenges across disciplines; scientists and
researchers being immediately productive on the new system as it
will run the same software as CINECA’s existing system; CINECA’s
role in evolving HPC application development and Leonardo being a
result of their long-term commitment to pushing boundaries; and
what Leonardo will be built from and will enable are
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