U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) & HPE Expand High-Performance Computing (HPC) Stor...
January 30 2020 - 8:00AM
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ALCF advances capabilities to target complex scientific research
using modeling, simulation, and AI, ahead of its upcoming Aurora
exascale supercomputer
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and the Argonne Leadership
Computing Facility (ALCF), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office
of Science User Facility, today announced that ALCF will deploy the
new Cray ClusterStor E1000, the most efficient parallel storage
solution, as its newest storage system. The new collaboration
supports ALCF’s scientific research in areas such as earthquake
seismic activity, aerospace turbulence and shock-waves, physical
genomics and more. The latest deployment advances storage capacity
for ALCF’s workloads that require converged modeling, simulation,
artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics workloads, in
preparation for Aurora, ALCF’s forthcoming exascale supercomputer,
powered by HPE and Intel, and the first-of-its-kind expected to be
delivered in the U.S. in 2021.
The Cray ClusterStor E1000 system utilizes purpose-built
software and hardware features to meet high-performance storage
requirements of any size with significantly fewer drives. Designed
to support the Exascale Era, which is characterized by the
explosion of data and converged workloads, the Cray ClusterStor
E1000 will power ALCF’s future Aurora supercomputer to target a
multitude of data-intensive workloads required to make breakthrough
discoveries at unprecedented speed.
“ALCF is leveraging Exascale Era technologies by deploying
infrastructure required for converged workloads in modeling,
simulation, AI and analytics,” said Peter Ungaro, senior vice
president and general manager, HPC and AI, at HPE. “Our recent
introduction of the Cray ClusterStor E1000 is delivering ALCF
unmatched scalability and performance to meet next-generation HPC
storage needs to support emerging, data-intensive workloads. We
look forward to continuing our collaboration with ALCF and
empowering its research community to unlock new value.”
ALCF’s two new storage systems, which it has named “Grand” and
“Eagle,” are using the Cray ClusterStor E1000 system to gain a
completely new, cost-effective high-performance computing (HPC)
storage solution to effectively and efficiently manage growing
converged workloads that today’s offerings cannot support.
“When Grand launches, it will benefit ALCF’s legacy petascale
machines, providing increased capacity for the Theta compute system
and enabling new levels of performance for not just traditional
checkpoint-restart workloads, but also for complex workflows and
metadata-intensive work,” said Mark Fahey, director of operations,
ALCF.
“Eagle will help support the ever-increasing importance of data
in the day-to-day activities of science,” said Michael E. Papka,
director, ALCF. “By leveraging our experience with our current
data-sharing system, Petrel, this new storage will help eliminate
barriers to productivity and improve collaborations throughout the
research community.”
The two new systems will gain a total of 200 petabyes (PB) of
storage capacity, and through the Cray ClusterStor E1000’s
intelligent software and hardware designs, will more accurately
align data flows with target workloads. ALCF’s Grand and Eagle
systems will help researchers accelerate a range of scientific
discoveries across disciplines, and are each assigned to address
the following:
- Computational capacity - ALCF’s “Grand” provides 150 PB
of center-wide storage and new levels of input/output (I/O)
performance to support massive computational needs for its
users.
- Simplified data-sharing - ALCF’s “Eagle” provides a 50
PB community file system to make data-sharing easier than ever
among ALCF users, their collaborators and with third parties.
ALCF plans to deliver its Grand and Eagle storage systems in
early 2020. The systems will initially connect to existing ALCF
supercomputers powered by HPE HPC systems: Theta, based on the
Cray® XC40-AC™ and Cooley, based on the Cray CS-300. ALCF’s Grand,
which is capable of 1 terabyte per second (TB/s) bandwidth, will be
optimized to support converged simulation science and
data-intensive workloads once the Aurora exascale supercomputer is
operational.
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