Atos powers Europe’s fastest supercomputer at Jülich in Germany, the most energy-efficient system in the TOP100
November 17 2020 - 4:00AM
Atos powers Europe’s fastest supercomputer at Jülich in Germany,
the most energy-efficient system in the TOP100
With 44.1 petaflops JUWELS is officially the fastest
supercomputing system in Europe
Paris, November 17, 2020 – Atos,
a global leader in digital transformation, today announces that the
supercomputing system at Forschungszentrum Jülich,
named JUWELS, based on Atos’ innovative BullSequana XH2000
platform, is today officially the fastest supercomputing
system in Europe with a sustained peak performance of 44.1 HPL
petaflops. It ranks #7 on the TOP500 and #5 on
HPCG rankings. It is the most energy-efficient supercomputing
system in the TOP100 and ranks #3 on the Green500.
Highest energy-efficiencyToday JUWELS is
the most energy-efficient supercomputer in its class worldwide,
ranking in first place for energy-efficiency on the TOP100 list,
thanks to Atos’ patented DLC (Direct Liquid Cooling) solution,
which minimizes global energy consumption by using warm water up to
40°C. JUWELS ranks alongside 30 other Atos supercomputers on this
November’s Green500, underlining Atos’ commitment to support its
clients in their decarbonization objectives.
Faster & Smarter – prepared for
exascale Atos worked with Jülich and
German HPC-software specialist ParTec to extend its existing JUWELS
supercomputer system with a highly scalable booster module. Now
operational, this module massively expands the application limits
of HPC simulations, enabling JUWELS to handle much more demanding
computing tasks and data analysis from science and industry than
has previously been possible in Europe. It also makes JUWELS the
strongest platform in Europe for the use of artificial intelligence
(AI).
“We believe JUWELS is a milestone towards
the European exascale computer, scheduled to be launched in 2023.”
explains Prof. Thomas Lippert, Head of the Jülich Supercomputing
Centre. “Now with our fully developed modular JUWELS system,
our scientists are able to take a big step forward in many areas,
while researchers and engineers from industry can stay ahead of the
competition."
“This year at SC’20 we’re highlighting how Atos
is enabling Faster Smarter and Greener simulation and the JUWELS
supercomputing system is a prime example of all three of these.
It has been fantastic to work with Jülich and its partners to
deliver this enhanced performance and power to drive unparalleled
research and innovation in Europe” said Agnès Boudot,
Senior Vice President, Head of HPC & Quantum at
Atos
“Our A100 Tensor Core GPUs featured in
this booster module are based on our NVIDIA Ampere architecture, a
groundbreaking engineering achievement that delivers a massive
performance improvement over the previous generation for AI
training and inference.” said Ian Buck, General Manager and Vice
President of Accelerated Computing at Nvidia
“This data center-scale platform with accelerated computing and
Mellanox HDR InfiniBand networking empowers researchers at Julich
to hit the ground running for the development and deployment of
accelerated data analytics, HPC, and AI to tackle the challenges of
the exascale AI era.”
JUWELS will be used in research related to the
climate, the environment, sustainable energy management and the
properties of materials or brain research. The booster module is
based on Atos’ BullSequana X2415 blade which features NVIDIA A100
Tensor Core GPUs, NVIDIA Mellanox HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand
high-performance network, and AMD central processing units. For
more details, please go to:
https://www.fz-juelich.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/UK/EN/2020/2020-11-16-juwels-booster.html
Atos now has 31 supercomputers in the TOP500,
with a combined peak performance of 251 petaflops, this is an
increase of 79% in petaflops from the TOP500 listing in June.
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Technical DetailsThe supercomputing
system at JUWELS is made up of:
- 38x BullSequana XH2000 racks from Atos
- 3700 Nvidia A100-40 GPUs
- AMD Zen-2 Rome CPUs
- HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand
- ParTec Software (ParaStation Modulo)
About AtosAtos is a global leader in
digital transformation with over 110,000 employees in 73 countries
and annual revenue of over € 11 billion. European number one in
Cloud, Cybersecurity and High-Performance Computing, the Group
provides end-to-end Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Big Data, Business
Applications and Digital Workplace solutions. The group is the
Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic &
Paralympic Games and operates under the brands Atos, Atos Syntel,
and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), listed on the CAC40
Paris stock index.
The purpose of Atos is to help design the future
of the information technology space. Its expertise and services
support the development of knowledge, education as well as
multicultural and pluralistic approaches to research that
contribute to scientific and technological excellence. Across the
world, the group enables its customers, employees and
collaborators, and members of societies at large to live, work and
develop sustainably and confidently in the information technology
space.
Press contact:
Laura Fau | laura.fau@atos.net | +33 6 73 64 04 18 |
@laurajanefau
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