Argonne National Laboratory’s new system, Polaris, built by HPE,
will optimize AI, engineering and scientific projects for
forthcoming Aurora exascale supercomputer
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National
Laboratory (ANL) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today
unveiled a new testbed supercomputer to prepare critical workloads
for future exascale systems that will deliver up to 4X faster
performance than Argonne’s current supercomputers.
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The new system, which Argonne has named Polaris, will be built
by HPE, and hosted and managed by the Argonne Leadership Computing
Facility (ALCF), a U.S. DOE Office of Science User Facility. It
will enable scientists and developers to test and optimize software
codes and applications to tackle a range of AI, engineering, and
scientific projects planned for the forthcoming exascale
supercomputer, Aurora, a joint collaboration between Argonne, Intel
and HPE.
Polaris is designed with industry-leading high performance
computing (HPC) and AI solutions to advance investigations into
society’s most complex and pressing issues, from understanding the
biology of viruses to revealing the secrets of the universe. It
will also augment Argonne’s ongoing efforts and achievements in
areas such as clean energy, climate resilience and
manufacturing.
In addition, Polaris will help researchers integrate HPC and AI
with other experimental facilities, including Argonne’s Advanced
Photon Source and the Center for Nanoscale Materials, both DOE
Office of Science User Facilities.
“Polaris is well equipped to help move the ALCF into the
exascale era of computational science by accelerating the
application of AI capabilities to the growing data and simulation
demands of our users,” said Michael E. Papka, director at the
Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF). “Beyond getting us
ready for Aurora, Polaris will further provide a platform to
experiment with the integration of supercomputers and large-scale
experiment facilities, like the Advanced Photon Source, making HPC
available to more scientific communities. Polaris will also provide
a broader opportunity to help prototype and test the integration of
HPC with real-time experiments and sensor networks.”
Polaris: Argonne’s North Star Propels New Era of
Exascale
Polaris will deliver approximately 44 petaflops of peak double
precision performance and nearly 1.4 exaflops of theoretical
artificial intelligence (AI) performance, which is based on
mixed-precision compute capabilities.
It will be built using 280 HPE Apollo Gen10 Plus systems, which
are HPC and AI architectures built for the exascale era and
customized to include the following end-to-end solutions:
- Powerful compute to improve modeling, simulation and
data-intensive workflows using 560 2nd and 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™
processors
- Supercharged AI capabilities to support data and
image-intensive workloads while optimizing future
exascale-level GPU-enabled deployments using 2240 NVIDIA® A100
Tensor Core GPUs, making it ALCF’s largest GPU-based system to
date
- Addressing demands for higher speed and congestion control
for larger data-intensive and AI workloads with HPE Slingshot,
the world’s only high performance Ethernet fabric designed for HPC
and AI solutions. HPE Slingshot will also be featured in Argonne’s
Aurora exascale system.
- Enabling fine-grained centralized monitoring and management
for optimal performance with HPE Performance Cluster Manager, a
system management software solution
“As we approach the exascale era, which will power a new age of
insight and innovation, high performance computing (HPC) will play
a critical role in harnessing data to take on the world’s most
pressing challenges. Increasingly, the computational power and
scale required to process artificial intelligence and machine
learning data sets can only be delivered through HPC systems, and
HPE uniquely provides a powerful, software-driven platform capable
of tackling complex scientific data and simulations,” said Justin
Hotard, senior vice president and general manager, HPC and Mission
Critical Solutions at HPE. “The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE)
Office of Science continues to make tremendous impacts in
accelerating scientific and engineering breakthroughs using HPC.
Our latest collaboration with the DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory
to build and deliver the Polaris testbed supercomputer will further
its mission by preparing users for the magnitude of technological
advancement that exascale systems will deliver.”
Polaris Prepares Scientists to Tackle Exascale-level
Problems
Initially, Polaris will be dedicated to research teams
participating in initiatives such as the DOE’s Exascale Computing
Project and the ALCF’s Aurora Early Science Program, which are
already tackling complex issues such as:
- Advancing cancer treatment by accelerating research in
understanding the role of biological variables in a tumor cell’s
path by advancing the use of data science to drive analysis of
extreme-scale fluid-structure-interaction simulations; and
predicting drug response to tumor cells by enabling billions
of virtual drugs to be screened from single to numerous
combinations, while predicting their effects on tumorous
cells.
- Advancing the nation’s energy security, while minimizing
climate impact with biochemical research through the NWChemEx
project, funded by the DOE’s Office of Science Biological and
Environmental Research. Researchers are solving the molecular
problems in biofuel production by developing models that optimize
feedstock to produce biomass and analyze the process of converting
biomass materials into biofuels.
- Expanding the boundaries of physics with particle collision
research in the ATLAS experiment, which uses the Large Hadron
Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator,
sited at CERN, near Geneva Switzerland. Scientists study the
complex products from particle collisions in very large detectors
to deepen our understanding of the fundamental constituents of
matter, including the search for evidence of dark matter.
User communities within the DOE’s Exascale Computing Project
will also use Polaris for optimizing engineering tasks for
Argonne’s Aurora, which includes scaling of combined CPU- and
GPU-enabled systems and the complex integration of workflows
combining modeling, simulation, AI and other data-intensive
components.
The delivery and installation of Polaris is scheduled to begin
this month. It will go into use starting early 2022 and will be
open to the broader HPC community in spring of 2022 to prepare
workloads for the next generation of DOE’s high performance
computing resources.
Argonne National Laboratory seeks solutions to pressing
national problems in science and technology. The nation’s first
national laboratory, Argonne conducts leading-edge basic and
applied scientific research in virtually every scientific
discipline. Argonne researchers work closely with researchers from
hundreds of companies, universities, and federal, state and
municipal agencies to help them solve their specific problems,
advance America’s scientific leadership and prepare the nation for
a better future. With employees from more than 60 nations, Argonne
is managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC for the U.S. Department of
Energy’s Office of Science.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science is the
single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences
in the United States and is working to address some of the most
pressing challenges of our time. For more information, visit
https://energy.gov/science.
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Argonne National Laboratory Brian Grabowski
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Nahren Khizeran
Nahren.Khizeran@hpe.com
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