U.S. Department of Energy Advances Nuclear Stockpile Research & Simulations with 4X More Powerful Supercomputer Built by Hewl...
30 Septiembre 2020 - 5:38PM
Business Wire
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s new system
features the HPE Cray EX supercomputer using future Intel Xeon
processors to simulate nuclear weapons and maintain safety of
stockpile
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced it is building
a new supercomputer with quadrupled performance1 for the U.S.
Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration
(NNSA). The new system will support critical modeling and
simulation of nuclear weapons at high 3D resolutions to ensure
reliability and security of the nuclear stockpile.
The NNSA’s new system, which it has named “Crossroads,” will
replace the existing Cray-based system, Trinity, to advance current
and planned future research. The new system will be delivered in
the spring of 2022 and hosted at Los Alamos National Laboratory. It
will be used by the three NNSA national laboratories: Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory and
Sandia National Laboratories during 2022 - 2026.
The Crossroads system, which is a $105M deal with HPE, will be
powered by the HPE Cray EX supercomputer, a high-performance
computing (HPC) architecture that is purpose-built for
next-generation supercomputing and ideally suited for large-scale
systems requiring the greatest performance, density, and
efficiency. It will also feature future Intel Xeon processors
code-named “Sapphire Rapids” for powerful next-generation compute
and AI-accelerated capabilities that target and optimize emerging
applications needed for advancing NNSA research, including 3D
modeling at higher resolutions.
“HPE has a long history in designing a number of HPC systems for
the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), and today’s
announcement further builds on our commitment to deliver powerful
and diverse architectures required for critical research missions
in maintaining the reliability and security of the nation’s nuclear
stockpile,” said Bill Mannel, vice president and general manager,
HPC, at HPE. “In this collaboration with Los Alamos National
Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories, we are significantly
advancing existing resources for NNSA research with the HPE Cray EX
supercomputer, which combines the Cray Shasta architecture and
industry-leading HPC software and networking interconnect. We are
also quadrupling performance with combined technologies featuring
advanced compute, I/O, memory, networking and software to enable
faster and more efficient performance for current and future
projects.”
Continuing Historical Success of Supercomputing for the
National Nuclear Security Administration
HPE, along with Cray, has worked closely with the DOE’s national
laboratories for decades to provide advanced and diverse HPC
solutions that support the NNSA in ensuring the nation’s nuclear
stockpile is safe, secure and effective.
In addition to the Crossroads system at Los Alamos National
Laboratory, HPE is the provider of choice for additional systems to
support other DOE missions, including the upcoming exascale
systems, Aurora at Argonne National Laboratory, Frontier at Oak
Ridge National Laboratory, and El Capitan at Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory.
“This machine will advance our ability to study the most complex
physical systems for science and national security. We look forward
to its arrival and deployment,” said Jason Pruet, Program Director
for the Advanced Simulating and Computing Program at Los Alamos
National Laboratory.
“Sandia is pleased to be part of the ACES team, and we
anticipate that the Crossroads supercomputer will be highly
efficient at running the largest physics and engineering
calculations in support our Nation’s nuclear deterrent,” said S.
Scott Collis, Director, Center for Computing Research at Sandia
National Laboratories.
Empowering Innovation with Next-Generation HPC
Technologies
The HPE Cray EX supercomputer, which will power Crossroads, will
feature the following next-generation HPC solutions for faster
performance, greater efficiency, and overall workload
optimization:
- Powerful, AI-accelerated compute from Intel using future
Intel Xeon processors code-named “Sapphire Rapids” with
next-generation Intel Deep Learning Boost (with Advanced Matrix
Extensions) and an advanced memory architecture
- Sophisticated liquid-cooling capabilities for larger scale
systems from HPE to increase overall efficiency in electricity
and water usage used to operate the system
- Fully integrated suite of software designed for HPC
using the HPE Cray Programming Environment to improve programmer
productivity, application scalability, and performance
- HPE Slingshot for purpose-built HPC networking to
address demands for higher speed and congestion control for
data-intensive workloads
To learn more about the Crossroads system and planned projects
it will support, please visit:
https://www.lanl.gov/projects/crossroads/
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1) 4X performance increase calculated by the
U.S. Department of Energy
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