Atos boosts supercomputing performance at German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) by 5 with new BullSequana

Paris, 22 June 2020

Atos, a world wide leader in electronic transformation, has signed a new five-year agreement with the German Local climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) to source a supercomputer based on its hottest BullSequana XH2000 technological innovation to boost DKRZ’s computing electric power by five, as opposed to the at the moment running superior-general performance personal computer “Mistral” which was provided by Atos in 2015. The new techniques will be readily available at the DKRZ from mid-2021.

BullSequana to speed up and produce extra exact forecasting

Just as a new, extra effective telescope gives extra thorough photographs from space, a extra effective supercomputer makes it possible for for extra thorough simulations and therefore deeper insights into local climate events. This major boost in computing electric power will empower researchers at DKRZ to use regionally extra thorough local climate and earth method products in long run, to incorporate extra procedures in calculations, to simulate for a longer period time intervals, or to extra properly seize organic local climate variability working with ensemble calculations and therefore minimize uncertainties. This is accompanied by a strong boost in the information that is calculated and then saved and evaluated. The BullSequana is an economical computing and information administration resolution, critical for local climate modelling and the ensuing information volumes, to endorse environmental analysis and produce extra trusted, thorough success.

Prof. Thomas Ludwig, CEO at DKRZ suggests: “Our superior-general performance personal computer is the heart all-around which our companies for science are grouped. We’re really joyful to be doing the job with Atos once again. With the new method, our end users will be equipped to attain new insights into the local climate method and produce even extra thorough success. This issues basic analysis, but also extra used fields of analysis these kinds of as enhanced latest local climate projections. This way, we help attain fundamental insights for local climate alter adaptation.”

Damien Déclat, Group VP, Head of HPC, AI & Quantum Company Operations at Atos, points out: “With our strong knowledge and working experience we have been equipped to successfully layout the DKRZ resolution integrating it proficiently with the BullSequana XH2000 system’s greatest-of-breed components to enhance DKRZ’s generation workloads. We glimpse forward to continuing this joint exertion to foresee the next phases as well as to adapt apps and necessities to the next processor era and other accelerating components.”

Atos is a specialist in the provision of major systems for some of the world’s major centers in the Climate Forecasting and Local climate local community, these kinds of as the European Centre for Medium-Range Climate Forecasts and the French Meteorological Service Météo-France and has labored carefully with each other to enhance apps, investigate and foresee new systems, and glimpse for increased efficiency and lowered TCOs.

Technological specs

The Atos resolution is based on its BullSequana XH2000 supercomputer and will be one particular of the to start with outfitted with the next era of AMD EPYC x86 processors. The interconnect uses NVIDIA Mellanox InfiniBand HDR 200G technological innovation and the information storage resolution relies on DDN machines. The ultimate method will consist of all-around 3,000 computing nodes with a overall peak general performance of 16 PetaFlops, 800 Terabytes major memory and a a hundred and twenty Petabytes storage method.

Financing

The new method is worth 32.five million euros, which is currently being provided by the Helmholtz Affiliation of German Study Centres, the Max Planck Modern society and the Free and Hanseatic Town of Hamburg.

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About DKRZ

The German Local climate Computing Heart (Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum, DKRZ) is a central provider heart for German local climate and earth method analysis. Its superior general performance computer systems, information storage and companies kind the central analysis infrastructure for simulation-based local climate science in Germany.

Aside from providing computing electric power, information storage capability and technical support for products and simulations in local climate analysis, DKRZ offers its scientific end users an intensive portfolio of tailor-made companies. It maintains and develops application software package suitable to local climate analysis and supports its end users in matters of information processing. Finally, DKRZ also participates in nationwide and international joint projects and cooperations with the aim of increasing the infrastructure for local climate modeling.

DKRZ was started on November eleven, 1987 and took up its companies on January 1, 1988. It is a non-gain and non-business minimal company with 4 shareholders:

The Max Planck Modern society
The Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, represented by the College of Hamburg
The Alfred Wegener Institute – Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Study
and the Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht – Centre for Products and Coastal Study (HZG)

Also, DKRZ is sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Training and Study and the The Helmholtz Affiliation of German Study Centres.

DKRZ gives its sources (computing time, really hard-travel storage and archive capability, consultancy and visualizations) no cost of charge. Any scientists conducting analysis in the field of local climate and earth method science in Germany, and demanding HPC sources for their perform may perhaps apply for sources at DKRZ.

DKRZ engages about eighty staff, mostly with a track record in organic and/or personal computer sciences and is devided into a few scientific departments

About Atos

Atos is a world wide leader in electronic transformation with one hundred ten,000 staff in seventy three countries and once-a-year profits of € twelve billion. European number one particular in Cloud, Cybersecurity and High-Overall performance Computing, the Group gives conclusion-to-conclusion Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Big Knowledge, Company Applications and Digital Place of work options. The Group is the Around the globe Information and facts Technological know-how Partner for the Olympic & Paralympic Video games and operates below the models Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), listed on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The objective of Atos is to help layout the long run of the information space. Its knowledge and companies support the advancement of understanding, education and analysis in a multicultural tactic and contribute to the advancement of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the entire world, the Group allows its buyers and staff, and customers of societies at massive to stay, perform and produce sustainably, in a protected and secure information space.

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