Supercomputers “Hunter” and “Herder” will power cutting-edge
academic and industrial research in computational engineering and
the applied sciences
The University of Stuttgart and Hewlett Packard Enterprise
(NYSE: HPE) have announced an agreement to build two new
supercomputers at the High-Performance Computing Center of the
University of Stuttgart (HLRS).
In the first stage, a transitional supercomputer, called Hunter,
will begin operation in 2025. This will be followed in 2027 with
the installation of Herder, an exascale system that will provide a
significant expansion of Germany’s high-performance computing (HPC)
capabilities. Hunter and Herder will offer researchers world-class
infrastructure for simulation, artificial intelligence (AI), and
high-performance data analytics (HPDA) to power cutting-edge
academic and industrial research in computational engineering and
the applied sciences.
The total combined cost for Hunter and Herder is €115 million.
Funding will be provided through the Gauss Centre for
Supercomputing (GCS), the alliance of Germany's three national
supercomputing centers. Half of this funding will be provided by
the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and
the second half by the State of Baden-Württemberg's Ministry of
Science, Research, and Arts.
Hunter to Herder: a two-step climb to exascale
Hunter will replace HLRS’s current flagship supercomputer, Hawk.
It is conceived as a stepping stone to enable HLRS’s user community
to transition to the massively parallel, GPU-accelerated structure
of Herder.
Hunter will be based on the HPE Cray EX4000 supercomputer, which
is designed to deliver exascale performance to support large-scale
workloads across modeling, simulation, AI, and HPDA. Each of the
136 HPE Cray EX4000 nodes will be equipped with four HPE Slingshot
high-performance interconnects. Hunter will also leverage the next
generation of Cray ClusterStor, a storage system purpose-engineered
to meet the demanding input/output requirements of supercomputers,
and the HPE Cray Programming Environment, which offers programmers
a comprehensive set of tools for developing, porting, debugging,
and tuning applications.
Hunter will raise HLRS’s peak performance to 39 petaFLOPS
(39*1015 floating point operations per second), an increase from
the 26 petaFLOPS possible with its current supercomputer, Hawk.
More importantly, it will transition away from Hawk’s emphasis on
CPU processors to make greater use of more energy-efficient
GPUs.
Hunter will be based on the AMD Instinct™ MI300A accelerated
processing unit (APU), which combines CPU and GPU processors and
high-bandwidth memory into a single package. By reducing the
physical distance between different types of processors and
creating unified memory, the APU enables fast data transfer speeds,
impressive HPC performance, easy programmability and great energy
efficiency. This will slash the energy required to operate Hunter
in comparison to Hawk by approximately 80% at peak performance.
Herder will be designed as an exascale system capable of speeds
on the order of one quintillion (1018) FLOPS, a major leap in power
that will open exciting new opportunities for key applications run
at HLRS. The final configuration, based on accelerator chips, will
be determined by the end of 2025.
The combination of CPUs and accelerators in Hunter and Herder
will require that current users of HLRS’s supercomputer adapt
existing code to run efficiently. For this reason, HPE will
collaborate with HLRS to support its user community in adapting
software to harness the full performance of the new systems.
Supporting scientific excellence in Stuttgart, Germany, and
beyond
HLRS's leap to exascale is part of the Gauss Centre for
Supercomputing's national strategy for the continuing development
of the three GCS centers: The upcoming JUPITER supercomputer at the
Jülich Supercomputing Centre will be designed for maximum
performance and will be the first exascale system in Europe in
2025, while the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre is planning a system
for widescale usage in 2026. The focus of HLRS’s Hunter and Herder
supercomputers will be on computational engineering and industrial
applications. Together, these systems will be designed to ensure
that GCS provides optimized resources of the highest performance
class for the entire spectrum of cutting-edge computational
research in Germany.
For researchers in Stuttgart, Hunter and Herder will open many
new opportunities for research across a wide range of applications
in engineering and the applied sciences. For example, they will
enable the design of more fuel-efficient vehicles, more productive
wind turbines, and new materials for electronics and other
applications. New AI capabilities will open new opportunities for
manufacturing and offer innovative approaches for making
large-scale simulations faster and more energy efficient. The
systems will also support research to address global challenges
like climate change, and could offer data analytics resources that
help public administration to prepare for and manage crisis
situations. In addition, Hunter and Herder will be state-of-the-art
computing resources for Baden-Württemberg’s high-tech engineering
community, including the small and medium-sized enterprises that
form the backbone of the regional economy.
Statements
Mario Brandenburg (Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal
Ministry for Education and Research, BMBF)
“Funded by the BMBF and the State of Baden-Württemberg, the
expansion of the computing infrastructure of the Gauss Centre for
Supercomputing at its Stuttgart location is an important step on
the road to more computing power for Germany’s research and
innovation landscape. The unique concept behind the computing
architecture at HLRS will ensure that not just science but also
industry, SMEs, and start-ups will have first-class conditions for
developing new innovations. This expansion also means increased
computing capacity for the development of AI and a strengthening of
Germany’s AI infrastructure, in accordance with the federal
research ministry’s AI action plan.“
Petra Olschowski (Baden-Württemberg Minister of Science,
Research, and Arts)
“High-performance computing means rapid development. As the peak
performance of supercomputers grows, they are as crucial for
cutting-edge science as for innovative products and processes in
key industrial sectors. Baden-Württemberg is both a European leader
and internationally competitive in the fields of supercomputing and
artificial intelligence. As part of the University of Stuttgart,
HLRS thus has a key role to play — it is not just the impressive
performance of the supercomputer but also the methodological
knowledge that the center has assembled that helps our cutting-edge
computational research to achieve breathtaking results, for example
in climate protection or for more environmentally sustainable
mobility.“
Prof. Dr. Wolfram Ressel (Rector, University of
Stuttgart)
“With Hunter and Herder, the University of Stuttgart continues
its commitment to high-performance computing as the foundation of
its successful excellence strategy. This expansion will especially
strengthen Stuttgart’s leading position in research using computer
simulation and artificial intelligence.”
Anna Steiger (Chancellor, University of Stuttgart)
“Supporting cutting-edge science while maximizing energy
efficiency is a central concern for everyone at the University of
Stuttgart. Hunter and Herder constitute a decisive reaction to the
challenges of limiting CO2 emissions, and Herder will deliver not
only dramatically higher computing performance but also excellent
energy performance.”
Prof. Dr. Michael Resch (Director, High-Performance Computing
Center Stuttgart)
“HPE has been a reliable partner since 2019, and we are excited
to be making the jump with them to the next order of magnitude in
computing performance, the exaFLOP. Using GPU technology from AMD,
we are also confident that we will be well prepared for the
challenges of the future.”
Justin Hotard (Executive Vice President and General Manager,
HPC, AI & Labs, Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
“HLRS has demonstrated the power of supercomputing in research
and applied science, and we are honored to have been with them on
this journey. We look forward to building on our collaboration to
pave the way to exascale for HLRS using the HPE Cray EX
supercomputer. The new system will enable scientific and
technological innovation to accelerate economic growth.”
Mario Silveira (Corporate Vice President OEM Sales,
AMD)
”AMD is pleased to expand our collaboration with HLRS in
Stuttgart and HPE. We are providing our cutting-edge AMD Instinct™
MI300A datacenter accelerator to the Hunter project, aiming to
enhance performance, efficiency, and data transfer speeds. This
initiative will establish a state-of-the-art infrastructure
tailored for research, AI workloads, and simulations. Anticipated
for arrival by 2025, Hunter aligns with HLRS's ambitious exascale
plans for Germany, showcasing our commitment to advancing
technological capabilities and fostering innovation together with
our partners in the years to come.”
Dr. Bastian Koller (General Manager, HLRS)
“Increasingly it’s not just faster hardware but optimal usage of
the system that is the greatest performance factor in simulation
and artificial intelligence. We are particularly excited that we
have found a globally leading partner for these topics in Hewlett
Packard Enterprise, who together with AMD will open up new horizons
of performance for our clients.”
About the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart
The High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) was
established in 1996 as the first German national high-performance
computing center, building on a tradition of supercomputing at the
University of Stuttgart that stretches back to 1959. As a research
institution affiliated with the University of Stuttgart and a
founding member of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing — the
alliance of Germany's three national supercomputing centers — HLRS
provides state-of-the-art HPC services to academic users and
industry. HLRS operates one of Europe's most powerful
supercomputers, provides advanced training in HPC programming and
simulation, and conducts research to address key problems facing
the future of supercomputing. Among HLRS's areas of expertise are
parallel programming, numerical methods for HPC, visualization,
cloud computing concepts, high-performance data analytics (HPDA),
and artificial intelligence. Users of HLRS computing systems are
active across a wide range of disciplines, with an emphasis on
computational engineering and applied science.
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) is the global
edge-to-cloud company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes
by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere. Built on
decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way
people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and intelligent
technology solutions as a service. With offerings spanning Cloud
Services, Compute, High Performance Computing & AI, Intelligent
Edge, Software, and Storage, HPE provides a consistent experience
across all clouds and edges, helping customers develop new business
models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance.
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