First Cray Shasta System in EMEA will be the UK’s Most Powerful Supercomputer
22 Octobre 2019 - 3:00PM
Global supercomputer leader Cray, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise
company (NYSE: HPE), today announced at a signing ceremony in
London that UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) have awarded Cray a
£48 million contract award to expand its high-performance computing
capabilities with Cray’s next-generation Shasta™ supercomputer. The
new ARCHER2 supercomputer will be the first Shasta system announced
in EMEA and the second system worldwide used for academic research.
ARCHER2 will be the UK’s most powerful supercomputer and will be
equipped with the revolutionary Slingshot™ interconnect, Cray
ClusterStor® high-performance storage, the Cray Shasta Software
platform, and 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors. The new supercomputer
will be 11X higher performance than its predecessor, ARCHER.
“ARCHER2 will be an important resource for the UK’s research
community, providing them with the capability to pursue
investigations which are not possible using current resources, said
Lynn Gladden, executive chair, professor at the Engineering and
Physical Sciences Research Council (ESPRC). “The new system
delivered by Cray will greatly increase the potential for
researchers to make discoveries across fields such as physics,
chemistry, healthcare and technology development.”
The new Cray Shasta-based ARCHER2 system will replace the
existing ARCHER Cray XC30 in 2020 and be an even greater capability
resource for academic researchers and industrial users from the UK,
Europe and the rest of the world. At rates previously unattainable,
the new supercomputer will achieve 11X higher performance with only
a 27% increase in grid power. The ARCHER2 project provides
resources for exploration in research disciplines including oil and
gas, sustainability and natural resources, mental and physical
health, oceanography, atomistic structures, and technology
advancement.
“We’re pleased to continue supporting UKRI’s mission and provide
the most advanced high-end computing resources for the UK’s science
and research endeavors,” said Peter Ungaro, president and CEO at
Cray, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. “As traditional
modeling and simulation applications and workflows converge with AI
and analytics, a new Exascale Era architecture is required.
Shasta will uniquely provide this new capability and ARCHER2 will
be the first of its kind in Europe, as its next-gen architecture
will provide UK and neighboring scientists and researchers the
ability to meet their research requirements across a broad range of
disciplines, faster.”
The new Shasta system will be the third Cray supercomputer
delivered to UKRI, with the previous systems being HECToR and
ARCHER. ARCHER2 will be supported by 2nd Gen AMD EPYC
processors.
“AMD is incredibly proud to continue our collaboration with Cray
to deliver what will be the most powerful supercomputer in the UK,
helping to process data faster and reduce the time it takes to
reach critical scientific conclusions,” said Forrest Norrod, senior
vice president and general manager, AMD Datacenter and Embedded
Systems Group. “Investments in high-performance computing
technology are imperative to keep up with today’s increasingly
complex problems and explosive data growth. The 2nd Gen AMD EPYC
processors paired with Cray Shasta will provide a powerful resource
for the next generation of research in the UK when ARCHER2 is
delivered next year.”
About Cray Inc.Cray, a Hewlett Packard
Enterprise company, combines computation and creativity so
visionaries can keep asking questions that challenge the limits of
possibility. Drawing on more than 45 years of experience, Cray
develops the world’s most advanced supercomputers, pushing the
boundaries of performance, efficiency and scalability. Cray
continues to innovate today at the convergence of data and
discovery, offering a comprehensive portfolio of supercomputers,
high-performance storage, data analytics and artificial
intelligence solutions. Go to www.cray.com for more
information.
CRAY and ClusterStor are a registered trademarks of Cray Inc. in
the United States and other countries. Shasta and Slingshot are
trademarks of Cray Inc. Other product and service names mentioned
herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.
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