Atos delivers EuroHPC Leonardo supercomputer, ranked 4th among the world’s most powerful supercomputers
14 Noviembre 2022 - 01:19PM
Atos delivers EuroHPC Leonardo supercomputer, ranked 4th among the
world’s most powerful supercomputers
Paris, France
– November
14, 2022 – Atos today announces
that Leonardo, Italy’s pre-exascale EuroHPC supercomputer, based on
Atos’ BullSequana XH2000, is now the 4th most powerful
supercomputer in the world and 2nd in Europe, according to the
TOP500 listing. Atos and its ecosystem of partners have already
successfully delivered the main part of the Leonardo system, hosted
and managed by Cineca computing center located in the Technopole of
Bologna.
With this new cluster, Atos and Cineca will
support the EU’s mission and sovereignty by fighting against
environmental and medical emergency situations. It will contribute
to the mitigation and management of risks due to extreme
situations, natural events, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic events,
flash flood, and for the fight against pandemic and epidemic
situations.
The modeling of scientific phenomena today
requires high performance simulations, data analysis, artificial
intelligence, and data visualization. The Leonardo system will
enable extremely high throughput with low power consumption. This
AI supercomputer will have a computing power of 250 petaflops when
fully completed (on the High-Performance Linpack test basis), or
250 million billion floating point operations per second – 10 times
more than Cineca’s previous system – with a storage capacity of
over 100 petabytes.
The system is built on Atos' BullSequana XH2000
supercomputer direct liquid-cooled (DLC) nodes, each with four
NVIDIA A100 Tense Core GPUs and a single 3rd Generation Intel®
Xeon® Scalable processor. The system relies on Micron’s
leading-edge DDR5 DRAM technology , to enable the extreme bandwidth
and system performance required to meet High-Performance Computing
demands. It will also use NVIDIA Quantum 200Gb/s InfiniBand
networking platform, with smart In-Network Computing acceleration
engines that enable extremely low latency and high data throughput
to provide the highest AI and HPC application performance and
scalability. It is equipped with approximately 3,500 Intel® Xeon®
processors and 14,000 NVIDIA A100 GPUs with a performance of 10
ExaFLOPS in reduced precision, typical of AI applications. The
Data-centric partition is based on BullSequana X2140 three-node CPU
Blade and is equipped with two 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable
processors (previously codenamed Sapphire Rapids) each with 56
cores.
Access to the data center, first delayed due to
the pandemic, was quickly provided to the Atos and Cineca teams in
late July, thanks a strong collaboration between both teams
on-site. Since then, over 155 racks of equipment have been
delivered, installed, and networked to allow the teams to do
initial HPL (High Performance Linpack test) runs while the system
is still being fully configured.
Anders Dam Jensen, Executive Director of
the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking
(EuroHPC JU), said:
“Today's announcement is another testimony to the fact that EuroHPC
Joint Undertaking is delivering on its objectives. Despite Leonardo
installation only having started a few months ago, it is already
ranked as the 4th fastest supercomputer in the world. By combining
the best of Artificial Intelligence and HPC technologies, this
EuroHPC machine will be a valuable resource for European research
and industry to innovate and bring benefits to citizens in fields
such as medicine, energy, and agriculture. Leonardo's ranking on
the Top500 list is another example of the results which can be
achieved through European cooperation."
Sanzio
Bassini, Director of the HPC Department,
CINECA said "CINECA confirms its commitment in the
development of the HPC ecosystem in Italy and in Europe. This new
achievement, obtained in a challenging short time, demonstrates as
European competence and technology is highly mastered and capable
to provide to the public and private scientific community access to
HPC system co-designed to meet at the same time high productivity
capacity and extremely high computational performance”
Emmanuel Le Roux,
SVP, Global head of HPC,
AI and Quantum, Atos, commented “Today’s achievement is
yet another example of Atos’ commitment to Europe’s economic and
technological sovereignty in an energy-optimized environment. As a
world-class leader in HPC, Atos is committed to pave the way to
Exascale systems by pushing the technological boundaries with a
hybridization strategy and by providing increased performance. We
are proud to collaborate with EuroHPC and Cineca to make the best
of HPC and AI technologies, helping Italian and European scientists
and researchers prevent medical and environmental crisis."
Atos now has 43 supercomputers in the TOP500,
with two new systems in the ranking including Leonardo and Pégaso
system hosted by Petrobras.
From November 13th to November 18th 2022, Atos
will take part in SC2022: come meet our experts on booth #2809! You
can also join the official launch of the Atos next-gen hybrid HPC,
BullSequana XH3000, learn more about the new Nimbix Supercomputing
Suite and hear the latest developments within our ThinkAI
portfolio.
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About Atos
Atos is a global leader in digital
transformation with 112,000 employees and annual revenue of c. € 11
billion. European number one in cybersecurity, cloud and high
performance computing, the Group provides tailored end-to-end
solutions for all industries in 71 countries. A pioneer in
decarbonization services and products, Atos is committed to a
secure and decarbonized digital for its clients. Atos is a SE
(Societas Europaea) and listed on Euronext Paris.
The purpose of Atos is to help design the future
of the information space. Its expertise and services support the
development of knowledge, education and research in a multicultural
approach and contribute to the development of scientific and
technological excellence. Across the world, the Group enables its
customers and employees, and member
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