The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), Hewlett Packard
Enterprise (HPE) and NVIDIA today announced that they are creating
what is expected to be the world’s most powerful AI-capable
supercomputer.
Planned to come online in 2023, the “Alps” system infrastructure
will replace CSCS’s existing Piz Daint supercomputer and serve as a
general-purpose system open to the broad community of researchers
in Switzerland and the rest of the world.
It will enable breakthrough research on a wide range of fields,
including climate and weather, materials sciences, astrophysics,
computational fluid dynamics, life sciences, molecular dynamics,
quantum chemistry and particle physics, as well as domains like
economics and social sciences.
Alps will be built by HPE based on the new HPE Cray EX
supercomputer product line, which is a next-generation high
performance computing (HPC) architecture designed from the ground
up to efficiently harness insights from vast, ever-increasing
amounts of complex data. It features the HPE Cray software stack
for a software-defined supercomputing experience, as well as the
NVIDIA HGX™ supercomputing platform, including NVIDIA GPUs, the
NVIDIA HPC SDK and the new Arm-based NVIDIA Grace™ CPU, also
announced today.
Taking advantage of the tight coupling between NVIDIA CPUs and
GPUs, Alps will be able to train GPT-3, one of the world’s largest
natural language processing models, in only two days — 7x faster
than NVIDIA’s 2.8-AI exaflops Selene supercomputer, currently
recognized as the world’s leading supercomputer for AI by
MLPerf.
CSCS users will be able to apply this incredible AI performance
to a wide range of emerging scientific research that can benefit
from natural language understanding. This includes, for example,
analyzing and understanding massive amounts of knowledge available
in scientific papers and generating new molecules for drug
discovery.
“We are not simply procuring a new computer. For enabling
scientific breakthroughs, we are retrofitting our computer center
in several expansion phases to a service-oriented research
infrastructure,” said Thomas Schulthess, computational physicist at
ETH Zurich and director of CSCS. “Alps will use the HPE Cray EX
supercomputing infrastructure based on a cloud-native software
architecture to implement a software-defined research
infrastructure, as well as NVIDIA’s novel Grace CPU to converge AI
technologies and classic supercomputing in one single, powerful
data center infrastructure.”
“HPE has had a longstanding collaboration with the Swiss
National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in advancing high performance
computing (HPC) technologies to accelerate a range of scientific
research,” said Antonio Neri, president and CEO of Hewlett Packard
Enterprise. “We are honored to continue this journey by designing a
powerful new system that furthers CSCS’s mission. Armed with this
incredible tool, CSCS is equipped to harness new insights from its
data that drive breakthroughs in advancing our world.”
“Today’s monumental scientific challenges demand a new kind of
supercomputer to fuel discovery,” said Jensen Huang, founder and
CEO of NVIDIA. “Taking advantage of our new Grace CPU designed for
giant-scale AI and HPC, CSCS and NVIDIA are joining together to
blaze a new trail — building a world-class, Arm-based
supercomputing infrastructure that will let leading scientists
apply the power of AI to do world-changing research.”
About CSCSFounded in 1991, CSCS, the Swiss
National Supercomputing Centre, develops and promotes technical and
scientific services for the Swiss research community in the fields
of high-performance computing. CSCS enables world-class scientific
research by pioneering, operating and supporting leading-edge
supercomputing technologies. The center collaborates with domestic
and foreign researchers, and carries out its own research in
scientific computing. Located at Lugano, in the southern,
Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, CSCS is a unit of the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich).
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise Hewlett
Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud platform
as-a-service company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes
by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere. Built on
decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way
people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and intelligent
technology solutions, with a consistent experience across all
clouds and edges, to help customers develop new business models,
engage in new ways, and increase operational performance. For more
information, visit: www.hpe.com.
About NVIDIANVIDIA‘s (NASDAQ: NVDA) invention
of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market and
has redefined modern computer graphics, high performance computing
and artificial intelligence. The company’s pioneering work in
accelerated computing and AI is reshaping trillion-dollar
industries, such as transportation, healthcare and manufacturing,
and fueling the growth of many others. More information at
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.
For further information, contact:
Michele De LorenziDeputy DirectorCSCS+41 79 623 25
83michele.delorenzi@cscs.ch
Nahren Khizeran Senior Public Relations ManagerHewlett Packard
Enterprise +1-209-456-0812Nahren.Khizeran@hpe.com
Kristin BrysonSenior Director, Enterprise CommunicationsNVIDIA
Corporation+1-203-241-9190kbryson@nvidia.com
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and impact of the Alps supercomputer; the creation of the world’s
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Alps will enable and its applications and uses; how CSCS is
enabling scientific breakthroughs; what Alps will use to build a
data center infrastructure; supercomputers fueling discovery; CSCS
and HPE’s collaboration and them designing a new system; CSCS being
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