New supercomputer, for the European High Performance Computing
Joint Undertaking initiative, will use HPE Cray EX supercomputers
to power a theoretical peak performance of more than 550
petaflops
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced it has been
awarded a contract of more than $160 million by the European High
Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) to build one
of the world’s fastest supercomputers that will be based in
Finland. The new supercomputer, which EuroHPC JU refers to as
“LUMI,” will help European researchers and private and public
organizations significantly advance R&D and drive innovation in
areas such as healthcare, weather forecasting, and AI-enabled
products.
EuroHPC JU’s LUMI is characterized as a “pre-exascale” system
that will have a theoretical peak performance of more than 550
petaflops, which is equivalent to the performance of 1.5 million
laptops combined.
Additionally, through its collaboration with EuroHPC JU, HPE is
expanding supercomputing resources to accelerate the European
roadmap to achieve exascale computing, which is the next
significant leap in supercomputing that will deliver 5-10 times
faster performance than today’s systems.
“We are honored to be selected for LUMI and leverage our
exascale era technologies to build one of the fastest
supercomputers on the planet,” said Peter Ungaro, senior vice
president and general manager, High Performance Computing (HPC) and
Mission Critical Solutions (MCS), HPE. “We are committed to
supporting the European High Performance Computing Joint
Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) to seize opportunities in next-generation
supercomputing to bolster research in science, advance innovation
and unlock economic growth. We are excited to collaborate with the
EuroHPC JU, and through our partnership with AMD, leverage our
unique capabilities in compute, high performance networking,
storage and software to help improve the way people live and
work.”
HPE Powers One of The World’s Fastest Pre-Exascale
Supercomputers for Europe
The EuroHPC JU’s LUMI will be powered by HPE Cray EX
supercomputers featuring next-generation AMD EPYC™ CPUs and AMD™
Instinct GPUs to deliver unprecedented performance and targeted
deep learning capabilities to advance the combination of modeling,
simulation, analytics and AI workloads to solve complex
research.
EuroHPC JU’s LUMI will be hosted in CSC – IT Center for Science
in Kajaani, Finland and will be shared by ten European countries as
part of the newly formed LUMI consortium. The consortium includes
Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland,
Norway, Poland, Sweden, and Switzerland.
The new system will be available in mid-2021.
“Once operational in mid-2021, the LUMI supercomputer will be
one of the most competitive and green supercomputers in the world!”
said Anders Dam Jensen, Executive Director, EuroHPC Joint
Undertaking. “Such leadership-class system will support European
researchers, industry and public sector, in better understanding
and responding to complex challenges and transforming them into
innovation opportunities in sectors like health, weather
forecasting or urban and rural planning.”
“AMD is proud to join with HPE to power the upcoming LUMI
supercomputer to advance scientific research in artificial
intelligence, weather forecasting, pharmaceutical discovery, and
more,” said Forrest Norrod, senior vice president and general
manager, data center and embedded systems group, AMD. “Our
next-generation AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct GPUs, coupled with
HPE’s unique supercomputing technologies, are fueling new
capabilities in high performance computing, and we are excited to
strengthen the European research community through our
support.”
HPE Accelerates Europe’s Path to Achieving Exascale
Computing
HPE is delivering powerful supercomputing and AI technologies to
advance EuroHPC JU’s mission in adopting next-generation
supercomputing, which includes pre-exascale and exascale systems.
EuroHPC JU’s LUMI is the second system that was contracted to HPE
to build, following the Euro_I4TI system for IT4Innovations
National Supercomputing Center in Ostrava that will be the Czech
Republic’s most powerful supercomputer.
HPE will also expand its supercomputing supply chain in Europe
by manufacturing liquid-cooled HPE Cray EX supercomputers and HPE
Apollo systems in its Kutná Hora factory in the Czech Republic.
Additionally, HPE will also establish a Center of Excellence in
Europe that will provide R&D tools and expertise to develop and
test applications, programming, processors and other solutions
required to build an exascale readiness program.
Through the investment of these systems and technologies,
EuroHPC JU aims to bolster R&D and innovation to advance
science, boost industrial competitiveness, and secure Europe’s
technological sovereignty.
HPE Powers EuroHPC JU’s LUMI with End-to-End Supercomputing
and AI Solutions
EuroHPC JU’s LUMI will be built using HPE Cray EX
supercomputers, which will also be used in the three upcoming
exascale systems for the U.S. Department of Energy: Aurora at
Argonne National Laboratory, Frontier at Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, and El Capitan at Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory. The HPE Cray EX supercomputers will integrate the
following compute, storage, networking and cooling technologies
that are purpose-built for the Exascale Era, to power LUMI:
- Powerful compute with targeted AI capabilities using
next-generation AMD EPYC™ CPUs and AMD™ Instinct GPUs
- Expanded storage to support complex workloads in
modeling, simulation and AI using HPE’s Cray ClusterStor E1000
storage system
- HPE Slingshot for purpose-built HPC networking to
address demands for higher speed and congestion control for
data-intensive workloads
- Sophisticated direct liquid cooling capabilities for larger
scale systems to increase overall efficiency in electricity and
water usage used to operate the system
For more information on LUMI, including the LUMI Consortium,
please visit: https://www.lumi-supercomputer.eu
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