U.K.'s AWE Selects Cray Shasta to Support Security and Defence Research
06 November 2019 - 1:00AM
Global supercomputer leader Cray, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise
company, today announced that the United Kingdom’s Atomic Weapons
Establishment (AWE) has selected the Cray Shastaä supercomputer to
support security and defence of the U.K. The Shasta system,
purpose-built for the exascale era, was chosen due to its ability
to run mixed workloads and applications at the best total cost of
ownership (TCO) for a system across five years.
AWE’s supercomputer, named Vulcan, will feature a single Shasta
supercomputer with expected performance of more than 7 petaflops.
Shasta will play an integral role in maintaining the U.K.’s nuclear
deterrent. “High-performance computing is a critical aspect of
AWE,” said Andy Herdman, head of HPC at AWE. “It underpins the vast
majority of our science-based programs, and we’re continually
looking for ways to enhance and support this important work. This
is why we chose Shasta, for its unique and powerful features, as
well as its ability to provide optimal TCO.”
The U.K. Ministry of Defence is responsible for the program and
stewardship of AWE, which is operated under contract by AWE
Management Limited. The Establishment has been at the forefront of
U.K. nuclear deterrence for more than 60 years. Predicated on the
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty which prohibits emission of
nuclear yield, AWE must continually verify the safety and
reliability of nuclear warheads through science-based and
computational programming. Shasta will further extend AWE’s
sophisticated scientific and technological capabilities.
“We are incredibly proud to be chosen by AWE to support their
important mission,” said Peter Ungaro, president and CEO at Cray.
“Shasta will bring Exascale Era technologies to bear on AWE’s
challenging modeling and simulation data-intensive workload and
enable the convergence of AI and analytics into this same workload,
on a single system.”
Vulcan’s Shasta architecture will include the Cray Slingshot™
interconnect, AMD EPYCä 7542 processors and Cray ClusterStor®
Lustre storage. The high performance storage system will offer
nearly 100 gigabytes per second of I/O performance.
“We are pleased to once again partner with Cray to deliver a
powerful new supercomputer that will support critical research
efforts in the U.K.,” said Forrest Norrod, senior vice president
and general manager, AMD Datacenter and Embedded Systems Group.
“Our 2nd Generation AMD EPYC™ processors provide unprecedented
performance while helping to reduce TCO, key elements for driving
success for AWE in the coming years.”
About Cray Inc.Cray, a Hewlett Packard
Enterprise company, combines computation and creativity so
visionaries can keep asking questions that challenge the limits of
possibility. Drawing on more than 45 years of experience, Cray
develops the world’s most advanced supercomputers, pushing the
boundaries of performance, efficiency and scalability. Cray
continues to innovate today at the convergence of data and
discovery, offering a comprehensive portfolio of supercomputers,
high-performance storage, data analytics and artificial
intelligence solutions. Go to www.cray.com for more
information.
About AWEAWE plays a crucial role in national
defence by providing and maintaining warheads for Trident, the UK’s
nuclear deterrent
AWE is contracted to the Ministry of Defence (MOD) through a
Government-owned Contractor Operated (GOCO) arrangement. Whilst our
sites and facilities remain in government ownership, their
management, day to day operations, and the maintenance of the
nuclear stockpile is contracted to a private company AWE Management
Limited (AWE ML). AWE ML is a consortium comprising three equal
partners: Serco Group plc, the Lockheed Martin Corporation and
Jacobs Engineering Group. For further information, visit:
http://www.awe.co.uk
CRAY and ClusterStor are registered trademarks of Cray Inc. in
the United States and other countries, and Shasta and Slingshot are
trademarks of Cray Inc. Other product and service names mentioned
herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.
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