Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet AGH launches Poland’s fastest supercomputer built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
April 25 2024 - 7:00AM
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Cyfronet’s new Helios supercomputer will advance AI-driven
scientific research in astronomy, medicine, and climate protection
with higher performance and greater energy efficiency
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that it
built a new supercomputer for the Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet
of the AGH University of Krakow, making it Poland’s fastest
system1. The new system, called Helios, is Cyfronet’s
fifth-generation supercomputer and will be used to advance
AI-driven scientific research and innovative commercial
applications.
The Helios system is based on the HPE Cray EX supercomputer and
features three partitions: the first dedicated to traditional
computational scientific research; the second purpose-built with
NVIDIA GPUs to support AI applications and AI-driven research; and
the third to support interactive workloads that involve big data
processing. The supercomputer delivers a theoretical peak
performance of 35 petaflops, which is over four times faster than
Cyfronet’s previous flagship system. Helios will also provide 1.8
exaflops of peak AI performance, enabling researchers to tap into
the power of AI and drive scientific innovation through
unprecedented computing capabilities.
With the significant upgrade to performance and engineering
offered by the supercomputer, Cyfronet can now support growing
demands for compute resources to advance scientific missions across
chemistry, medicine, materials technology, astronomy, and
environmental protection. The system will provide access to
research communities across Poland’s public and private
organizations, which include research institutes, municipalities,
and hospitals.
As energy costs are skyrocketing, Cyfronet needed Helios to be
more energy-efficient than its previous systems. The HPE Cray EX
supercomputer meets these demands with liquid-cooling capabilities.
Today, HPE delivers the majority of the world’s top 10 most
energy-efficient supercomputers2 using direct liquid cooling (DLC),
which is featured in the supercomputing solution for generative AI
to efficiently cool systems while lowering energy consumption for
compute-intensive applications.
“Supercomputers have become the go-to platform for AI to
efficiently support model training at scale,” said Trish Damkroger,
senior vice president and general manager, HPC & AI
Infrastructure Solutions at HPE. “With the new Helios system, an
HPE Cray EX supercomputer, the Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet is
gaining a significant increase in parallel processing computing
power and purpose-built end-to-end capabilities to fuel large-scale
research for its users. We are excited to support Cyfronet on its
mission and look forward to future advancements its research
community will make in a range of scientific fields.”
“For the past 50 years, Cyfronet has been helping advance Polish
science, offering its computing capabilities to multiple
researchers and institutions so they can achieve more complex and
accurate results in a shorter time,” said Prof. Kazimierz Wiatr,
Director of ACC Cyfronet AGH. “To keep doing that, we needed to
invest and build the new supercomputer with the most advanced
architecture, high compute power, and AI capabilities. The HPE Cray
EX supercomputer, used in the world’s fastest clusters, was the
right choice.”
Helios consists of three partitions targeted for different types
of workloads, serving both scientific communities and commercial
customers:
- HPE Cray Supercomputing EX with CPU partition, equipped with
75,264 "Zen 4" cores from 4th Gen AMD EPYC™ processors and 200
terabytes of DDR5 memory. This partition is targeted at modeling
and simulation workloads, such as computational fluid dynamics used
for wind turbines and propellers, car crash simulation tests, and
medicine, such as beam simulations in proton therapy used in cancer
treatment, among others.
- HPE Cray Supercomputing EX with GPU partition, equipped with
440 NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips, is targeted for
image-intensive computer simulations in materials engineering,
solid state physics, drug discovery, and large-scale AI training,
such as generative AI.
- HPE Cray Supercomputing XD665 with “INT” partition, targeted
for interactive work with big data, tuning AI models, and running
applications that use AI for inference, is equipped with 24 NVIDIA
H100 Tensor Core GPUs and high-speed NVMe local storage.
All components of the supercomputer are interconnected with HPE
Slingshot, which provides 200 gigabits per second (Gbps) of
purpose-built, high-performance networking to address demands for
higher speed and congestion control for data-intensive workloads.
Based on HPE Cray technology, this tuneable interconnection
supercharges performance for the entire system by enabling
extremely high-speed networking. Helios also has a total of 17.5
petabytes of Lustre file system storage built on the HPE Cray
ClusterStor E1000 Storage System.
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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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.
For more information, visit: www.hpe.com
About Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet AGH
ACC Cyfronet AGH was established in 1973 to operate and expand
High-Performance Computers and the Krakow Metropolitan Area Network
(MAN). Cyfronet is the leader of the PLGrid Consortium,
consolidating national computing resources for science and
providing many unique IT support services, as well as the leader of
the Polish National Competence Centre in HPC, which serves as a
contact and access point for both academia and industry. Cyfronet
has unique experience in building, maintaining and developing
integrated service platforms for scientific users. Based on the
hosted infrastructure and gained expertise, Cyfronet participates
in developing many Polish and European R&D initiatives,
including EGI, EOSC, EPOS, EuroHPC, LUMI, LUMI-Q, Digital Twins in
Earth- and Health Sciences. For more information, visit:
www.cyfronet.pl/en
_____________________________________ 1 The new system currently
delivers a theoretical peak performance of 35 petaflops, making it
the fastest supercomputer in Poland compared to the systems
featured in the TOP500 list (November 2023 edition). 2 Green500
list - November 2023:
https://www.top500.org/lists/green500/list/2023/11.
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