The College’s Superior Analysis Computing at Cardiff (ARCCA) service is utilizing Lenovo ThinkSystem servers to energy globally necessary high-performance computing analysis.
- Compute efficiency obtainable to researchers elevated by100%
- Cluster exceeds preliminary efficiency benchmarks by 46%
January 24, 2023 – Cardiff, UK – The College of Cardiff’s “Superior Analysis Computing @Cardiff” (ARCCA) service is now utilizing 90 Lenovo ThinkSystem servers to spice up the efficiency of its excessive efficiency computing (HPC) cluster by 100%, serving to to energy groundbreaking analysis into the origins of the universe and star formation. Cardiff’s high-end analysis computing service selected to work with Logicalis and the Lenovo ThinkSystem platform to spice up the capabilities of its Hawk HPC cluster which presents entry to supercomputing instruments and assets to sort out complicated analysis issues in fields as numerous as astrophysics and life sciences.
Lenovo and Logicalis ship HPC assets for 2 analysis teams at Cardiff, together with one that would change our understanding of the universe, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Scientific Collaboration. For greater than 15 years, ARCCA has been one of many largest HPC suppliers for the worldwide analysis undertaking LIGO, which goals to detect gravitational waves, ripples in space-time created by collisions between black holes. For the LIGO undertaking, led by Professor Stephen Fairhurst, Lenovo offered 75 Lenovo ThinkSystem SR645 servers forward of LIGO’s fourth two-year gravitational wave detection run. The brand new resolution doubles the compute efficiency obtainable to researchers and exceeds preliminary efficiency benchmarks by ~46%, permitting researchers to course of detection occasions and share information sooner. The LIGO undertaking gained the HPCwire Readers’ Award for ‘Finest Use of HPC For Scientific Analysis’.
A second analysis group at Cardiff College finding out star formation, led by Dr. Ana Duarte Cabral, Royal Society College Analysis Fellow is to make use of 15 Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 servers with two Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 servers for storage. With the system funded by the Royal Society, the group’s analysis focuses on the creation of stars in spiral galaxies like our personal Milky Method, requiring computationally demanding simulations of full galaxies.
Ian Jeffs, Common Nation Supervisor, UK&I, at Lenovo says, ‘The LIGO undertaking is a chief instance of how supercomputing can broaden humanity’s understanding, and Lenovo is proud to be concerned on this globally necessary analysis, enabling scientists to share their discoveries sooner.
‘Supported by Lenovo ThinkSystem know-how, ARCCA can now ship much more computing energy to gasoline massively necessary initiatives akin to LIGO and the Royal Society’s star formation examine, in addition to analysis throughout a variety of different scientific fields.’
Professor Martyn Visitor from Superior Analysis Computing, Cardiff College stated, ‘To assist the LIGO and star-formation analysis groups obtain their aims, we needed to transfer quick, because the funding for each initiatives was time-sensitive.
‘We had been working to extraordinarily tight funding deadlines, and whereas different distributors quoted us nine-month lead instances for supply, Lenovo and Logicalis really understood the urgency. They by no means stopped pushing to assist us full the initiatives on time and inside finances.’
Andy Griffiths, Enterprise Unit Director at Logicalis UK&I, added “Superior workloads and applied sciences at the moment are driving thrilling focus round Excessive Efficiency Computing for Logicalis. As we proceed to put money into specialist HPC abilities & capabilities, we’re delighted to be working with Cardiff College and ARCCA to help ground-breaking initiatives akin to LIGO.”
“The success of this undertaking and recognition by the International HPC Wire Award is testomony to the excellent work being delivered by the entire staff throughout ARCCA, Logicalis and Lenovo.”
Powering cutting-edge analysis
Working with Logicalis, ARCCA chosen Lenovo ThinkSystem servers to ship optimum HPC efficiency for the 2 analysis teams. Lenovo and Logicalis provided ARCCA a mix of cutting-edge Lenovo HPC {hardware}, powered by AMD Epyc 7443 processors with simultaneous multi-threading, together with cloud-native Ubiquity software program to combine the brand new Lenovo {hardware} seamlessly into the Hawk cluster. This allowed ARCCA to automate administration duties, permitting analysis software program engineers to focus their efforts on science. The chosen resolution provided the proper ratio of worth to efficiency when coping with excessive throughput computing and parallelised workloads.
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Logicalis is a UK-based, worldwide supplier of supplier of digital transformation providers.
With over 7000 employees, primarily based in 30 international territories, Logicalis work with greater than 10,000 purchasers throughout a spread of {industry} sectors, to create sustainable outcomes by industry-leading applied sciences and technical excellence.
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Ongoing strategic funding within the UK-based HPC Group is concentrated on supporting the world’s main scientific analysis organisations with industry-leading HPC data, expertise and technical innovation.
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