Atos awarded MareNostrum5 supercomputer contract by EuroHPC JU for Barcelona Supercomputing Center
23 Juin 2022 - 10:00AM
Atos awarded MareNostrum5 supercomputer contract by EuroHPC JU for
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Paris, France
– June
23,
2022 – Atos,
leading a consortium of technology suppliers, today announces that
it has been chosen to provide the pre-exascale system to be hosted
by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, in
Spain, as part of the EuroHPC
JU (European High Performance Computing Joint
Undertaking). MareNostrum5 will rank amongst the world’s
top supercomputers and will pave the way toward exascale
capabilities: the next supercomputing era.
This new system will support the EU’s mission to
provide European scientists and industry with access to
cutting-edge HPC infrastructures and services, with the main
objective to strengthen medical research capabilities across
Europe. Atos is already supporting Europe’s HPC capabilities by
providing pre-exascale systems for five other EuroHPC projects out
of eight.
With a power capacity up to 314 Petaflops, or at
least 314 million billion calculations per second, the system
called MareNostrum5 is tailored to boost European medical research
through drug research, the development of vaccines, virus spread
simulations as well as artificial intelligence and big data
processing applications. The system will also unlock computing
performance for HPC specific complex applications, such as climate
research, engineering, material science and earth sciences, which
require to be managed out of the cloud.
As the prime contractor, Atos will manage the
delivery of the entire MareNostrum5 supercomputer in close
cooperation with European technology specialist ParTec AG, who will
provide core parts of the solution and support Atos in the
technical coordination of the project. A large accelerator
partition will be based on Atos’ recently announced BullSequana
XH3000 next-gen hybrid architecture – the largest installation
worldwide – integrating GPU nodes using NVIDIA’s H100 Tensor Core
GPU, based on the new Hopper™ architecture and with 4th Gen Intel
Xeon Scalable processors (codenamed Sapphire Rapids). Atos will
also deliver nodes with NVIDIA’s Grace™ CPU Superchip for the
next-generation general purpose technology evaluation
partition.
The Lenovo general purpose compute partition,
provided through ParTec AG, will be based on Lenovo ThinkSystem
SD650 V3 Neptune™ nodes with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors
– to build one of the largest general purpose scientific
supercomputer worldwide. The storage part of the system, also
provided through ParTec AG, will use IBM Spectrum Scale global data
platform. Both the accelerator and general purpose compute
partitions will benefit from advanced Direct Liquid Cooling
solutions to provide an extremely energy-efficient system.
MareNostrum5 will be interconnected with the NVIDIA Quantum-2
400Gb/s InfiniBand networking platform.
“The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking continues to lead
the way in European supercomputing. MareNostrum 5 will provide
European scientists and industry with access to
cutting-edge HPC infrastructures and services. It will
power medical innovation but also climate research, engineering and
earth sciences while supporting our objective to promote green and
sustainable technologies.” Anders Dam Jensen, the Executive
Director of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
“The acquisition of MareNostrum 5 will enable
world-changing scientific breakthroughs such as the creation of
digital twins to help solve global challenges like climate change
and the advancement of precision medicine. In addition, BSC-CNS is
committed to developing European hardware to be used in future
generations of supercomputers and helping to achieve technological
sovereignty for the EU’s member states.” said Director of
BSC-CNS Mateo Valero
“As Europe’s leading supercomputing
manufacturer, we are proud to be supporting Europe’s commitment
towards technological excellence and sovereignty with the
MareNostrum5 pre-exascale system. With this solution fully
manufactured in Europe, we will support researchers to accelerate
scientific discovery and to develop solutions for current and
future challenges.” commented Emmanuel Le
Roux, Group SVP, Global Head of HPC, AI &
Quantum at Atos.
Atos’ BullSequana range is and will be used in
six EuroHPC supercomputing centres; Sofia Tech Park in Bulgaria
(Discoverer), CINECA in Italy (Leonardo), IZUM in Slovenia (Vega),
LuxProvide in Luxembourg (MeluXina), Minho Advanced Computing
Centre in Portugal (Deucalion), and now in Barcelona Supercomputing
Center thereby reinforcing Atos’ position as a European leader in
high-performance computing.
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