2nd Generation AMD EPYC™ processors in new Atos supercomputer aim to reduce impact of severe weather events
January 13 2020 - 9:01AM
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced that its EPYC processors have
been selected by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather
Forecasts (ECMWF) to accelerate its new world-leading
supercomputer, based on Atos’s latest BullSequana XH2000
technology, for one of the most powerful meteorological
supercomputers in the world.
Once operational in 2021, the supercomputer will allow ECMWF to
run its predictions at a higher resolution, of around 10km,
offering reliable, advanced numerical predictions about the
occurrence and intensity of extreme weather events ahead of
time.
“By leveraging our high-performance AMD EPYC server processors,
the Atos supercomputer can enable significant improvements in
weather forecasting, helping to increase the accuracy of weather
predictions around the world,” said Forrest Norrod, senior vice
president and general manager, Data Center and Embedded Solutions
Business Group. “The real-time data powered by AMD EPYC and
delivered by the supercomputer at ECMWF has the potential to
decrease the impact of severe weather events on peoples’
lives.”
The increase in ECMWF’s computing power, with the industry
leading core count of the AMD EPYC™ 7742, will support hundreds of
researchers from over 30 countries across Europe in their work on
medium and long-range weather forecasting.
“We’re really delighted to have been selected by
ECMWF for this major contract. This is testament not only to our
solid expertise and operational excellence needed to install,
manage and run such a large system, but also to the best-of-breed
technology which we are supplying, with our BullSequana XH2000 and
our partners AMD, Mellanox and DDN,” said Sophie Proust, Atos Group
CTO. “This new solution will optimize ECMWF's current workflow to
enable it to deliver vastly improved numerical weather predictions.
Most importantly though, this is a long-term collaboration, one in
which we will work closely with ECMWF to explore new technologies
in order to be prepared for next-generation applications.”
Based in Reading in the UK, ECMWF is an independent
intergovernmental organization supported by 34 Member and
Co-operating States across Europe and holds the largest archive of
numerical weather prediction data in the world. The system will be
delivered and installed at the ECMWF data centre in Bologna, Italy
in 2020, with service commencing in 2021. Atos will work locally
with E4 Computer Engineering to manage, run and maintain the
system.
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