- Lenovo, the College of Paderborn, and companion pro-com DATENSYSTEME are constructing a brand new HPC cluster
Stuttgart, February 1, 2024 – Lenovo proclaims the contract signing for the joint development of a brand new Excessive Efficiency Computing (HPC) cluster with the College of Paderborn. The combination of the brand new system will probably be carried out by the HPC companion pro-com DATENSYSTEME. The set up is scheduled to happen within the second half of the yr and is anticipated to have a runtime of at the least 5 years. From 2025, a good portion of the computing system will probably be made accessible for nationwide analysis as a part of the Nationwide Excessive-Efficiency Computing (NHR), supporting, amongst different issues, the analysis give attention to “Atomic Simulation.”
The HPC system can also be meant to be accessible to all researchers on the College of Paderborn and different scientists within the NRW analysis focus. This new HPC system, with roughly double the computing energy, will complement the present Noctua 2 supercomputer on the Paderborn Heart for Parallel Computing (PC2).
The system will embody the ThinkSystem SD665 V3 server with the subsequent AMD processor expertise for the CPU partition. For the GPU nodes, the ThinkSystem SD665-N V3 server is deliberate, which, along with AMD CPUs, options 4 NVIDIA H100 GPUs. The full variety of cores quantities to greater than 136,000.
A selected focus is on bettering power effectivity. To realize a cooling resolution tailor-made to PC2, the Coolmanager from the German firm Waning will probably be employed, which might be optimized in line with the particular necessities. Lenovo itself incorporates progressive applied sciences, together with the Neptune heat water cooling. With using heat water-cooled energy provides and totally insulated racks, over 97% of the generated warmth might be instantly transferred to the nice and cozy water circulation as an alternative of the info middle. Moreover, this enables working the processors extra effectively through the use of increased water temperatures for efficiency enhancement. By means of warmth exchangers and CDUs (Coolant Distribution Models), return temperatures of over 45 levels Celsius are achieved, enabling full free cooling and waste warmth reuse.
One other innovation is the partial use of Open-Loop expertise in Lenovo’s system, a characteristic not present in every other system in Germany. This enables connecting CPUs from the 1U and 2U commonplace servers to water cooling. Along with the improved power effectivity of the general system, this additionally permits using high-performance processors together with FPGA accelerators. This server cooling can also be used within the FPGA partition of the HPC system.
As a storage system, an answer based mostly on the IBM ESS 3500 is meant to offer versatile use of NVMe and HDD storage.
