DOE/NNSA’s El Capitan reaches 2 exaflops - more powerful than
the top 200 fastest supercomputers in the world combined - to
support nation’s nuclear security missions
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced that it will
deliver the world’s fastest exascale-class supercomputer for the
U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Nuclear Security
Administration (NNSA) at a record-breaking speed of 2 exaflops -
10X faster than today’s most powerful supercomputer. The new
system, which the DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
(LLNL) has named El Capitan, is expected to be delivered in early
2023 and will be managed and hosted by LLNL for use by the three
NNSA national laboratories: LLNL, Sandia National Laboratories and
Los Alamos National Laboratory. The system will enable advanced
simulation and modeling to support the U.S. nuclear stockpile and
ensure its reliability and security.
HPE is optimizing the DOE’s El Capitan to power complex and
time-consuming 3D exploratory simulations for NNSA missions that
today’s state-of-the-art supercomputers cannot successfully manage.
El Capitan will provide opportunities for researchers to explore
new applications using emerging, data-intensive workloads such as
modeling, simulation, analytics, and AI to support future NNSA
missions.
The DOE’s El Capitan will use next-generation AMD EPYC™
processors, codenamed “Genoa” featuring the “Zen 4” processor core,
next-generation AMD Radeon™ Instinct GPUs, based on a new
compute-optimized architecture, and the 3rd Generation AMD Infinity
Architecture, which will provide a high-bandwidth, low latency
connection between the CPUs and GPUs.
Strengthening Nation’s Nuclear Stockpile, Security and
Defense with Exascale Technologies
“As an industry and as a nation, we have achieved a major
milestone in computing. HPE is honored to support the U.S.
Department of Energy and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in
a critical strategic mission to advance the United States’ position
in security and defense,” said Peter Ungaro, senior vice president
and general manager, HPC and Mission Critical Solutions (MCS), at
HPE. “The computing power and capabilities of this system represent
a new era of innovation that will unlock solutions to society’s
most complex issues and answer questions we never thought were
possible.”
HPE’s Cray Shasta technologies, which were built from the ground
up to support a diverse set of processor and accelerator
technologies to meet new levels of performance and scalability,
will enable the DOE’s El Capitan to meet NNSA requirements, which
include the NNSA’s Life Extension Program (LEP), a critical part of
stockpile stewardship that aims to modernize aging weapons in the
U.S. nuclear stockpile that are to remain safe, secure, and
effective.
LLNL is managing the new system for the NNSA and has developed
emerging techniques that allow researchers to create faster, more
accurate models for primary missions across stockpile modernization
and inertial confinement fusion (ICF), a key aspect of stockpile
stewardship.
LLNL researchers will use the system to explore new applications
that integrate AI and machine learning into HPC workloads and is
already applying HPE supercomputing and AI solutions to make
breakthroughs in medical and drug research initiatives,
including:
- Accelerating cancer drug discovery from six years to one
yearthrough a partnership with the GlaxoSmithKline (GsK), a
multinational pharmaceutical company, the National Cancer Institute
and other DOE national laboratories through the ATOM
consortium.
- Understanding the dynamics and mutations of RAS proteins
that are linked to 30% of human cancers by collaborating with
The National Cancer Institute and other partner institutions.
Breaking Speed Barrier with 2 Exaflops
Systems like the DOE’s El Capitan are ushering in a new class of
supercomputing with exascale-class systems that are 1,000X faster
than the previous generation petascale systems first introduced 12
years ago.
The new performance record of 2 exaflops (2,000 petaflops) will
be more powerful than the Top 200 fastest supercomputers in the
world combined and is an increase of more than 30% from initially
projected estimates calculated seven months ago. This was made
possible by a new partnership between HPE, AMD and the U.S. DOE to
combine HPE’s Cray Shasta system and Slingshot interconnect, a
specialized HPC networking solution, with next-generation AMD EPYC™
processors and next-generation AMD Radeon™ Instinct GPUs. The
decision to choose this architecture was based on NNSA’s strategic,
mission critical requirements.
“We are pleased to continue our longstanding journey with HPE in
co-developing innovative technologies for a range of solutions, and
now, for the world’s most powerful, exascale-class supercomputer,”
said Forrest Norrod, senior vice president and general manager of
the Datacenter and Embedded Solutions Business Group, AMD. “We look
forward to continuing our collaboration with HPE to bring together
next-generation AMD EPYC CPUs and Radeon Instinct GPUs with HPE’s
Cray Shasta system to power complex, data-intensive HPC and AI
workloads for El Capitan that today’s systems cannot manage.”
“The exceptional computing power promised by El Capitan, based
on HPE’s Cray Shasta architecture, will ensure the NNSA
laboratories can continue to excel at their national security
missions and make it possible for the U.S. to remain competitive on
the global stage in high performance computing for many years to
come,” said Bill Goldstein, director, Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory. “We look forward to continuing our work with HPE and
AMD to usher in this new exascale era with the most capable
hardware on the planet.”
Enhanced Performance for DOE’s El Capitan
HPE and AMD jointly designed new technologies to support
critical HPC and AI workloads with the following enhancements:
- Streamlined communication between HPE’s Cray Slingshot
interconnect, a specialized HPC networking solution, and new
next-generation AMD Radeon Instinct GPUs that are based on a new
compute optimized architecture for workloads including HPC and
AI
- High density compute blades powered by next-generation AMD
EPYC™ processors, codenamed “Genoa” featuring the “Zen 4” processor
core
- New approach using accelerator-centric compute blades (in a 4:1
GPU to CPU ratio, connected by the 3rd Gen AMD Infinity
Architecture for high-bandwidth, low latency connections) to
increase performance for data-intensive AI, machine learning and
analytics needs by offloading processing from the CPU to the
GPU.
Other performance enhancements include unique storage and
software capabilities that are integrated with HPE’s Cray Shasta
architecture. Additional use of flash-based local storage systems,
designed specifically for the new system’s performance needs, will
provide a buffer to balance existing on-board memory and
data-tiering, which is monitored by Cray Shasta’s intelligent
software solutions to automate data movement for optimal storing
and timely access.
New LLNL Partnership to Demonstrate Optics in DOE’S El
Capitan
HPE is expanding its partnership with LLNL to actively explore
HPE optics technologies, a computing solution that uses light to
transmit data, to feature in the DOE’s El Capitan. HPE’s optics
technologies stem from R&D efforts related to PathForward, a
program backed by U.S. DOE’s Exascale Computing Project. HPE
developed and demonstrated breakthrough optics prototypes that
integrate electrical-to-optical interfaces to enable broad use in
future classes of system interconnects.
Together, HPE and LLNL are exploring ways to integrate these
optics technologies with HPE’s Cray Slingshot for DOE’s El Capitan
to transmit more data, more efficiently. This approach aims to
improve power efficiency, reliability and ability to
cost-effectively increase global system bandwidth.
In addition to the DOE’s El Capitan, HPE will deliver the other
two U.S DOE exascale systems announced in 2019, Aurora and
Frontier.
Over time, HPE will integrate its exascale technologies into its
broader HPC product portfolio to deliver supercomputers of any size
for every data center, and democratize Exascale Era technologies
for broader market uses.
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