KAUST Installs Cray CS-Storm 500NX Supercomputer to Drive Strategic AI Initiative
November 19 2019 - 9:00AM
At the 2019 Supercomputing Conference in Denver, Colorado, global
supercomputer leader Cray, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company,
today announced that the King Abdullah University of Science and
Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia has selected a Cray CS-Storm
500NX supercomputer to support innovation in the university and the
nation through a strategic artificial intelligence (AI) initiative.
The added power of the GPU-accelerated CS-Storm system provides
KAUST researchers greater computational capabilities to drive
positive and significant outcomes in the university’s core research
areas of global significance: food, water, energy, the environment,
and digitalization.
From helping to build smart cities to developing AI algorithms
that think like scientists, KAUST is the largest research center in
the Middle East that brings together faculty, researchers and
graduate students to leverage the interconnectedness of science and
engineering. With an 8:2 ratio of GPUs to CPUs, the new Cray
CS-Storm 500NX supercomputer will meet KAUST’s most demanding
computing requirements for production scalability, while also
delivering a low total cost of ownership. Engineered for the
convergence of modeling, simulation and analytics, the CS-Storm
fast-started KAUST’s AI journey and provides researchers and
scientists the highly-advanced supercomputing and software
capabilities required to analyze large volumes of data for rapid
insight, where simulation alone is unsatisfactory for predicting
real-world outcomes.
“Cray is honored to support KAUST’s digital transformation
agenda and tradition of science and technology excellence,” said
Peter Ungaro, president and CEO at Cray, a Hewlett Packard
Enterprise company. “KAUST is beginning to apply more analytics and
AI methods into its core research areas and converged workloads
such as seismic simulation, machine learning and scientific
computing, which require significant compute power and software
optimization. The Cray-CS Storm is a production workhorse for
accelerated, converged workload environments and will help drive
KAUST’s AI initiatives in the exascale era.”
The Cray CS-Storm 500NX enables larger models and faster results
for AI and deep learning neural network training. The system uses
NVLink technology to tightly couple the NVIDIA GPUs together,
providing a high-speed interconnect that enables ultra-fast
communication between the GPUs, and allowing data rates at 5 to 12
times faster than traditional PCIe Gen3. KAUST’s new system will
feature NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs, 2nd Generation Intel Xeon
Scalable Processors and the Mellanox ConnectX-6 HDR-100 Dual-Port
VPI adapter.
“Cray’s new GPU-accelerated system at KAUST is ideally suited to
supporting the university’s increasingly converged workloads,” said
Ian Buck, vice president and general manager of Accelerated
Computing at NVIDIA. “NVIDIA’s GPU computing platform delivers
groundbreaking AI performance and, together with the CS-Storm, is
poised to help KAUST solve some of the world’s most pressing
challenges.”
About Cray Inc.Cray, a Hewlett Packard
Enterprise company, combines computation and creativity so
visionaries can keep asking questions that challenge the limits of
possibility. Drawing on more than 45 years of experience, Cray
develops the world’s most advanced supercomputers, pushing the
boundaries of performance, efficiency and scalability. Cray
continues to innovate today at the convergence of data and
discovery, offering a comprehensive portfolio of supercomputers,
high-performance storage, data analytics and artificial
intelligence solutions. Go to www.cray.com for more
information.
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