NVIDIA Powers Next-Generation Supercomputer at University of Edinburgh
28 June 2021 - 5:01PM
ISC—NVIDIA today announced that its NVIDIA HGX™
high performance computing platform will power Tursa, the new DiRAC
supercomputer to be hosted by the University of Edinburgh.
Optimized for computational particle physics, Tursa is the third
of four DiRAC next-generation supercomputers formally announced
that will be accelerated by one or more NVIDIA HGX platform
technologies, including NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs, NVIDIA HDR
200Gb/s InfiniBand networking and NVIDIA Magnum IO™ software. The
final DiRAC next-generation supercomputer is to feature NVIDIA
InfiniBand networking.
Tursa will allow researchers to carry out the
ultra-high-precision calculations of the properties of subatomic
particles needed to interpret data from massive particle physics
experiments, such as the Large Hadron Collider.
“DiRAC is helping researchers unlock the mysteries of the
universe,” said Gilad Shainer, senior vice president of networking
at NVIDIA. “Our collaboration with DiRAC will accelerate
cutting-edge scientific exploration across a diverse range of
workloads that take advantage of the unrivaled performance of
NVIDIA GPUs, DPUs and InfiniBand in-network computing acceleration
engines.”
“Tursa is designed to tackle unique research challenges to
unlock new possibilities for scientific modeling and simulation,”
said Luigi Del Debbio, professor of theoretical physics at the
University of Edinburgh and project lead for the DiRAC-3
deployment. “The NVIDIA accelerated computing platform enables the
extreme-scaling service to propel new discoveries by precisely
balancing network bandwidth and flops to achieve the unrivaled
performance our research demands.”
The Tursa supercomputer, built with Atos and expected to go into
operation later this year, will feature 448 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core
GPUs and include 4x NVIDIA HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand networking
adapters per node. NVIDIA Magnum IO GPUDirect® RDMA enables the
system to provide the highest level of internode bandwidth and
scalability for extreme-scale scientific applications using Lattice
Quantum ChromoDynamics.
The system is run by DiRAC — the UK’s integrated supercomputing
facility for theoretical modeling and HPC-based research in
astronomy, cosmology, particle physics and nuclear physics — with
sites hosted at the University of Cambridge, Durham University, the
University of Edinburgh and the University of Leicester.
CSD3 at University of Cambridge, COSMA-8 at Durham
UniversityNVIDIA announced at GTC 21 in April that the
Cambridge Service for Data Driven Discovery, also known as CSD3,
will be enhanced with a new 4-petaflops Dell-EMC system with NVIDIA
HGX A100 GPUs, BlueField® DPUs and NVIDIA HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand
networking, which will deliver secured, multi-tenant, bare-metal
HPC, AI and data analytics services for a broad cross section of
the U.K. research community. CSD3 is projected to rank among the
world’s top 500 supercomputers. The DiRAC Data Intensive Service at
Cambridge is part of the CSD3 system.
NVIDIA also announced at GTC 21 that Durham University’s new
COSMA-8 supercomputer — to be used by world-leading cosmologists in
the U.K. to research the origins of the universe — will be based on
Dell technology and accelerated by NVIDIA HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand
networking.
Further details about the fourth system at the University of
Leicester are expected later this year.
Tune in to the NVIDIA ISC 2021 Special Address at 9:30 a.m. PT
to get an overview of the latest news from NVIDIA’s Marc Hamilton,
followed by a live Q&A panel with NVIDIA HPC experts. Learn
more about DiRAC and its facilities at NVIDIA’s ISC 2021 digital
panel discussion.
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powering Tursa; Tursa allowing researchers to carry out
ultra-high-precision calculations of the properties of subatomic
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diverse range of workloads; CSD3 being enhanced with a new
4-petaflops Dell-EMC system with NVIDIA HGX A100 GPUs, BlueField
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