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Contract Signed for New Finnish Supercomputer

On Tuesday (Nov. 13) the Finnish IT Center for Science Ltd (CSC) announced that it had selected AMD future-gen Rome Epycs to power the second phase of its next-generation supercomputer and data management systems.

After the official contract signing yesterday, configuration details were made public for the new BullSequana system that the Finnish IT Center for Science (CSC) is procuring from Atos in two phases over the next year-and-a-half. CSC is the inaugural customer for Atos’ BullSequana XH2000 supercomputer, announced at SC18 and the first Atos system to support AMD processors. Expected to be made available in the summer of 2019, the phase one air-cooled BullSequana cluster features Mellanox HDR InfiniBand and Intel Cascade Lake Xeon processors that altogether provide 2 petaflops of theoretical performance. Node memory ranges between 96 GB and 1.5 TB. DDN has been tapped to provide a 4.9PB Lustre parallel file system. A portion of the system (both compute and storage) is allocated to the Finnish Meteorological Institute.

A separate phase one partition is dedicated to AI research. Comprised of 320 Nvidia V100 NVLinked GPUs arranged in 4-GPU nodes, the system provides an aggregate peak performance of 2.5 petaflops. CSC will also field a 12 PB data management solution, based on CEPH object storage. Under the second phase, scheduled to be ready in the spring of 2020, Atos’ liquid-cooled, HDR-connected BullSequana XH2000 supercomputer will extend aggregate computing capacity by 6.4 (peak) petaflops, owing to approximately 200,000 AMD Epyc “Rome” cores. The system offers 256 GB memory per node. DDN will supply an 8PB Lustre parallel file system.

Izvor: HPCwire