Cray Storage Systems Integrated by Atos in “Joliot-Curie” Supercomputer for GENCI in France
27 June 2018 - 5:01PM
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced
that GENCI’s (Grand équipement national de calcul intensif) newest
nine petaflops supercomputer, Joliot-Curie, a BullSequana X1000
system from Atos, integrates Cray® ClusterStor™ storage systems.
This year, GENCI announced the upcoming
operational launch of Joliot-Curie, its new Atos supercomputer
honoring the renowned Nobel Prize-winning French couple, Dr. Irène
and Dr.Frédéric Joliot-Curie.
This nine petaflops system is based on a
balanced architecture, made up of a BullSequana X1000 system from
Atos, which includes Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Intel®
Xeon Phi™ processors, empowered with the Cray ClusterStor storage
system. The system delivers 300 gigabytes per second sustained
throughput from five petabytes usable capacity through the
Lustre® file system in a footprint of just three racks.
The new Joliot-Curie system is operated by CEA
in its TGCC facility. It will be used for both PRACE and national
scientific and national needs.
“At GENCI we believe that supercomputers will be at the very
heart of accelerated scientific discovery process enabled by the
convergence of high-performance computing (HPC)
simulation/modelling with high-performance data analytics/big data
and artificial intelligence,” said Philippe Lavocat, CEO of GENCI.
“This convergence creates order of magnitude increases in input and
output data in increasingly heterogeneous scientific
workflows.”
Philippe continued, “with the Cray ClusterStor storage platform,
we can cope with this data growth without the need to spend more
and more on HPC storage at the expense of the “Computing” in HPC.
This allows us to be able to deliver balanced supercomputers to the
French and European scientific communities, within a reasonable and
controlled budget.”
“We are honored Cray ClusterStor was chosen to provide the
storage platform for the new Joliot-Curie supercomputer,” said
Pascal Barbolosi, vice president, EMEA sales for Cray. “The
convergence of HPC and artificial intelligence creates
data-intensive workloads that are unprecedented. This is why Cray
continues to invest in innovative storage solutions worldwide.”
“It is critical for CEA to work with partners
that understand the unique challenges of building solutions at the
leading edge of supercomputing,” said Jacques-Charles Lafoucrière,
department lead at CEA. “Cray ClusterStor excels in performance
efficiency and, over the past few years, the ClusterStor platform
has proven its stability in the most demanding HPC environments at
CEA. Key environmental factors such as density and power
requirements also weighed in favor of the ClusterStor
solution.”
For more information on Cray storage solutions, visit the Cray
website at www.cray.com.
Cray ClusterStor L300N The Cray
ClusterStor L300N system with NXD flash accelerating software
optimizes multiple mixed workloads on the same storage platform,
eliminating data access bottlenecks through flash-based small file
acceleration. Organizations will be able to automatically support
multiple applications that require a diverse range of storage
access patterns, such as small block and large block, without
making any changes to applications or processes. ClusterStor NXD
scales performance linearly with the size of the system.
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About GENCIGENCI (Grand équipement national de
calcul intensif) is a Very Large Research Infrastructure 49% owned
by the State, represented by the Ministère de l’Enseignement
Supérieur, de la Recherche et de l’Innovation-French Ministry of
Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI), 20% by the
Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux énergies alternatives
(CEA), 20% by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
(CNRS), 10% by the French Universities, which are represented by
the Conférence des Présidents d’Université (CPU) , and 1% by Inria.
As the national operator in charge of the implementation of
national investment policy in the field of high performance
computing and computational data storage, GENCI, was created in
2007 to support and implement French national HPC strategy.
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