King Abdullah University of Science and Technology’s Shaheen III
will accelerate scientific discovery and enable AI-at-scale through
advanced modeling, simulation, analytics and neural network
training capabilities
Shaheen III will help advance insights in areas including clean
combustion, Red Sea ecosystems, climate events and the Arabian
tectonic plate
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that King
Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) selected HPE
to build its next-generation supercomputer, Shaheen III, to deliver
state-of-the-art supercomputing and artificial intelligence (AI)
capabilities for advancing research in fields such as food, water,
energy and the environment.
Supercomputing capacity has become increasingly vital to global
innovation, industry competitiveness and economic growth. From
accelerating vaccine discovery to fight a pandemic, advancing clean
energy systems to increase sustainability, to enabling new
possibilities in AI, supercomputing is a core technology to solving
the world’s most challenging scientific and engineering
problems.
Shaheen III ushers in a new era of scientific discovery and
AI innovation for the Middle East
Shaheen III, set to be 20 times faster than KAUST’s existing
system, will be the most powerful supercomputer in the Middle East
to address critical areas that have a societal and environmental
impact. Built by HPE, the world’s leading supercomputer provider,
the new Shaheen III system will revolutionize KAUST’s ability to
process vast amounts of data at immense speed and scale, enabling
its users to unlock discoveries that it could not have before, and
realize new potentials for AI.
Shaheen III will be built using the HPE Cray EX supercomputer, a
next-generation platform architected to support unprecedented
performance and scale, including achieving exaflop speed. The HPE
Cray EX supercomputer, which delivers advanced end-to-end
capabilities in compute and accelerated compute, networking,
storage and software solutions, allows KAUST to apply significant
computational power toward modeling and simulating scientific
problems faster and with higher accuracy.
HPE’s supercomputing capabilities also enable AI-at-scale by
combining its massive computing power and specialized capabilities
that are required to build machine learning models and train large
amounts of data. With the Shaheen III design, HPE is further
fueling KAUST’s AI-at-scale mission by integrating the HPE Machine
Learning Development Environment, an optimized software stack for
model training and development. By combining the machine learning
software platform with key supercomputing technologies, KAUST’s
users can easily develop and train AI models faster, and bigger,
for increased accuracy.
“At HPE, our purpose is to advance the way people live and work,
and we are honored to help fuel Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 for a
new era of innovation by empowering KAUST with a state-of-the-art
supercomputer,” said Antonio Neri, president and CEO of Hewlett
Packard Enterprise. “Shaheen III will significantly accelerate
research at KAUST by applying world-leading supercomputing and
AI-at-scale capabilities to increase accuracy in analyses and solve
complex scientific questions.”
“The new HPE Cray EX system will allow us to conduct research on
a larger scale, resulting in significant scientific, economic and
social advances,” said Dr. Tony F. Chan, President of KAUST. “In
line with Vision 2030, we strive to meet the ever-increasing
demands of our active and solutions-driven faculty, and also those
of external partners, for faster and more efficient computing
resources. KAUST supercomputing resources are used by more than
half of our faculty, students, postdoctoral students and
researchers, and researchers from more than 20 external
organizations in the Kingdom.”
Accelerating research and developments in energy,
environment, healthcare and bioengineering
Shaheen III will be fully operational in 2023. The new
supercomputer will process unique data sets in focus areas such as
clean combustion, Red Sea ecosystems, climate modelling and the
Arabian tectonic plate, while delivering analyses, models and
simulations at a superior level of resolution. KAUST’s users plan
to target a range of applications, including the design of new
materials for low-cost/high-performing solar photovoltaics; new
industrial catalytic processes to increase energy efficiency while
reducing waste; personalized preventative health care and the
discovery of new medicines; increased hydrocarbon recovery with
reduced environmental and economic costs; and the use of genetic,
genomic and epigenetic approaches to enhance plants’ drought
tolerance and resiliency in desert environments.
Equipped with more than 2,800 NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips,
tightly coupled CPU/GPU accelerators, the Shaheen supercomputer
will enable the development of novel and scalable techniques in
core AI fields such as deep learning, reinforcement learning,
federated learning, visual computing, and natural language
processing, and also provide unique opportunities to further scale
traditional HPC workloads. This GPU-accelerated partition will also
facilitate the broad use of applied AI in science and engineering
applications, including computational chemistry, biology and
material science, which previously were unfeasible given the
large-scale nature of data sets produced and used at KAUST.
Applications will increase in coming years as Shaheen III is
expected to deliver 100 petaflop/s of performance and outstanding
AI modelling capabilities.
“A supercomputer like Shaheen III is a universal scientific
instrument employed by scientists and engineers in every discipline
for tasks such as simulation, analysis of experimental data,
learning from observed data, and efficient data storage and
retrieval,” said KAUST Extreme Research Computing Center (ECRC)
Director Dr. David Keyes, professor of applied mathematics and
computational science. “It is the ultimate scientific ‘watering
hole’ at which researchers of different disciplines exchange
techniques and software tools. An advance in one field spurs
advances in several.”
As one of the world’s leading supercomputing centers, KAUST is
building on the success of its first supercomputer, Shaheen I,
launched in 2009, followed by Shaheen II, a Cray-based
supercomputer 25 times faster than its predecessor at 5.54
petaflop/s.
“Shaheen II has delivered 6.8 billion computing core-hours to
more than 1,467 users, resulting in data used in about 1,030
publications to date,” said KAUST Research Computing Core Labs
Director Dr. Jysoo Lee. “Shaheen III will ensure that the KAUST
community will maintain its edge as a world-class university in
computational sciences.”
“AMD is committed to the advancement of scientific research and
development in high-performance computing, driving the technology
behind computational modeling, simulation and AI,” said Forrest
Norrod, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Data Center
Solutions Business Group, AMD. “Powered by AMD EPYC processors,
Shaheen III will enable new discoveries that will have regional and
global impacts across climate, clean energy and tectonic plate
modeling, all made possible by the collaboration between KAUST
scientists and HPE.”
“As we push deeper into the era of Exascale AI, supercomputers
like Shaheen III are increasingly central to transforming society,”
said Ian Buck, vice president of hyperscale and HPC at NVIDIA.
“Enabled by our deep collaboration with KAUST and HPE, and the
adoption of our new Grace Hopper Superchip, Shaheen III will be a
key scientific instrument that offers unrivaled performance to help
tackle the world’s toughest challenges.”
About Shaheen III
The Shaheen III supercomputer is designed with 18 HPE Cray EX
supercomputer cabinets, which deliver end-to-end, cutting-edge
technologies for the exascale era to efficiently harness insights
from vast, ever-increasing amounts of complex data, while
delivering a substantial increase in performance, accuracy and
speed. When fully deployed, the system will comprise:
- HPE Slingshot networking cables delivering high-performance
Ethernet fabric designed for next-generation HPC and AI solutions.
These include larger, data-intensive workloads to address demands
for higher speed and congestion control for applications to run
smoothly and boost performance.
- Sophisticated closed-loop liquid cooling technology built in to
the HPE Cray EX cabinets to efficiently remove heat from high-power
devices, including CPUs, GPUs, memory and switches.
- Advanced support for computational modeling and simulation with
next-generation AMD EPYC™ processors, code-named “Genoa.” Each HPE
Cray EX cabinet is equipped with 4608 CPU compute nodes, with two
AMD EPYC™ processors, amounting to 884,736 cores in the entire
system.
- Advanced support for AI, analytics and other compute-intensive
workloads using NVIDIA HPC and AI platforms. Seven HPE Cray EX4000
cabinets will include 704 GPU compute nodes, and each node will be
equipped with 4 NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips, CPU/GPU
modules.
- Expansion of Shaheen II’s existing storage to support complex
workloads in modelling, simulation and AI using HPE’s Cray
ClusterStor E1000 storage system by adding 50 petabytes of storage
capacity.
- HPE Machine Learning Development Environment, an
enterprise-grade machine learning training platform built on the
open-source foundation laid by Determined AI to help research teams
focus on innovation by removing complexity and making it easy to
set up, manage, secure and share AI compute clusters. These new
capabilities will allow users to train models faster, build more
accurate models, and track and reproduce experiments.
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About KAUST
Established in 2009, KAUST is a graduate research university
devoted to finding solutions for some of the world’s most pressing
scientific and technological challenges in the areas of food and
health, water, energy, environment, and the digital domain. The
University brings together the best minds and ideas from around the
world with the goal of advancing science and technology through
distinctive, collaborative research. KAUST is a catalyst for
innovation, economic development and social prosperity in Saudi
Arabia and the world. Visit www.kaust.edu.sa to learn more.
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