- Lenovo and Intel deliver advanced supercomputing infrastructure
to enable discoveries into earthquake forecasting, predictions on
the spread of disease and star formation
- Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences Research
Computing’s newest supercomputing cluster performs 3-4x faster with
the upgrade of Lenovo’s ThinkSystem SD650 NeXtScale servers with
Neptune™ liquid cooling technology and 2nd Generation Intel Xeon
Platinum 8268 processors
- Lenovo announces the creation of an Exascale Visionary Council
whose mission is to enable broad adoption of exascale-focused
technologies for organizations of all sizes
Expanding the reach of the most advanced high performance
computing (HPC) technologies and capabilities by bringing them From
Exascale to Everyscale™ is a critical part of Lenovo’s commitment
to create a more inclusive, insightful and sustainable digital
society; a world with Smarter Technology for All™. For Harvard
University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences Research Computing unit
(FASRC), “smarter” means energy-saving technology that cools
servers without warming the planet.
FASRC was established in 2007 with the founding principle of
facilitating the advancement of complex research by providing
leading edge computing services. FASRC recently announced its
largest HPC cluster, Cannon, named after the legendary American
astronomer Annie Jump Cannon. The FASRC Cannon cluster is a
large-scale HPC system supporting Science, Engineering, Social
Science, Public Health, and Education modeling and simulation for
more than 600 lab groups and over 4,500 Harvard researchers. Faster
and more efficient data processing is critical to the thousands of
researchers working to improve earthquake aftershock forecasting
using machine learning, model black holes using event horizon
telescope data, map invisible ocean pollutants, identify new
methods for flu tracking and prediction, and develop a new
statistical analysis technique to better understand the details of
star formation.
Leveraging Lenovo and Intel’s long-standing collaboration to
advance HPC and artificial intelligence (AI) in the data center,
FASRC sought to refresh its previous cluster, Odyssey. FASRC wanted
to keep the processor count high and increase the performance of
each individual processor, knowing that 25 percent of all
calculations are run on a single core. Liquid cooling is paramount
to support the increased levels of performance today, and the extra
capacity needed to scale in the future.
Cannon, comprised of more than 30,000 2nd gen Intel Xeon
Scalable processor cores, includes Lenovo’s Neptune™ liquid cooling
technology, which uses the superior heat conducting efficiency of
water versus air. Now, critical server components can operate at
lower temperatures allowing for greater performance and energy
savings. The dramatically enhanced performance enabled by the new
system reflects Lenovo’s focus of bringing exascale level
technologies to a broad universe of users everywhere – what Lenovo
has coined “From Exascale to Everyscale™.”
Though the Cannon storage system is spread across multiple
locations, the primary compute is housed in the Massachusetts Green
High Performance Computing Center, a LEED Platinum-certified data
center in Holyoke, MA. The Cannon cluster includes 670 Lenovo
ThinkSystem SD650 servers featuring Lenovo Neptune™ direct-to-node
water-cooling, and Intel Xeon Platinum 8268 processors consisting
of 24 cores per socket and 48 cores per node. Each Cannon node is
now several times faster than any previous cluster node, with jobs
like geophysics models of the Earth performing 3-4 times faster
than the previous system. In the first four weeks of production
operation, Cannon completed over 4.2 million jobs utilizing over 21
million CPU hours.
“Science is all about iteration and repeatability. But iteration
is a luxury that is not always possible in the field of university
research because you are often working against the clock to meet a
deadline,” said Scott Yockel, director of research computing at
Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. “With the
increased compute performance and faster processing of the Cannon
cluster, our researchers now have the opportunity to try something
in their data experiment, fail, and try again. Allowing failure to
be an option makes our researchers more competitive.”
The additional cores and enhanced performance of the system are
also attracting researchers from additional departments at the
university, such as Psychology and the School of Public Health, to
more frequently leverage its machine learning capabilities to speed
and improve their discoveries.
Lenovo Launches Exascale Visionary Council
Intel, Lenovo and some of the world’s biggest names in HPC are
creating an exascale visionary council dedicated to bringing the
advantages of exascale technology to users of all sizes, far beyond
today’s top tier government and academic installations. As part of
its work to drive the broader adoption of exascale technology for a
greater HPC community, the council, named Project Everyscale, will
address the range of component technologies being developed to make
exascale computing possible. Areas of focus will touch all aspects
of the design of HPC systems, including everything from alternative
cooling technologies to efficiency, density, racks, storage, the
convergence of traditional HPC and AI and more. The visionaries on
the council will bring to bear their insights as customers to set
the direction for exascale innovation that everyone can use,
working together to bring to life a cohesive picture of the future
for the industry.
FASRC is a founding member of Project Everyscale along with
Australia’s National Computational Infrastructure (aka “NCI” in
Canberra, Australia), Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Barcelona,
Spain), the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute (New York, NY),
Inter University Accelerator Centre (New Delhi, India), Leibniz
Supercomputing Centre of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and
Humanities (aka “LRZ” in Munich, Germany), Potsdam Institute for
Climate Impact Research (Potsdam, Germany), Rutgers University (New
Brunswick, NJ), Texas A&M University (College Station, TX),
Tsinghua University (Beijing, China), University of Birmingham
(Birmingham, UK), University of Chicago’s Research Computing Center
(Chicago, IL), and University of Toronto’s SciNet supercomputing
centre (Toronto, Canada). Member organizations are leading the way
on groundbreaking research into some of the world’s greatest
challenges in fields such as computational chemistry, geospatial
analysis, astronomy, climate change, healthcare, and
meteorology.
“Working with Intel we are now bringing together some of the
biggest names and brightest minds of HPC to develop an innovation
roadmap that will push the design and dissemination of exascale
technologies to users of all sizes,” said Scott Tease, general
manager for HPC and AI, Lenovo Data Center Group.
“Intel is proud to be an integral part of this important
endeavor in supercomputing along with Lenovo and other leaders in
HPC,” said Trish Damkroger, vice president and general manager of
the Extreme Computing Organization at Intel. “With Project
Everyscale, our goal is to democratize exascale technologies and
bring leading Xeon scalable processors, accelerators, storage,
fabrics, software and more to HPC customers of every scale or any
workload.”
The Council is slated to kick-off its work early in 2020.
About Lenovo
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