With Lenovo’s new HPC system, the analysis heart will have the ability to not solely improve and speed up analysis actions, but in addition enhance its operational effectivity by optimizing vitality use to assist obtain its rigorous sustainability objectives.
Milan, Might 9, 2024 – The Euro-Mediterranean Heart on Local weather Change (CMCC) in Lecce renews its collaboration with Lenovo for the set up of a strong new HPC (Excessive Efficiency Computing) system that may assist local weather change analysis by offering elevated processing capabilities and optimizing vitality use for the operation of the high-capacity computing infrastructure.
“Cassandra”, Lenovo’s new HPC system that will likely be put in in Lecce, consists of 180 SD650 V3 nodes with two Intel Xeon Max 9480 CPUs (Sapphire Rapids HBM) and may attain a processing energy of 1.2 PetaFlops[1] peak, with a 100% improve in comparison with the answer at present in operation at CMCC.
Cassandra additionally ensures higher vitality effectivity, permitting electrical energy consumption for system cooling to be saved 15% decrease than related air-cooled options, with the usage of Lenovo Neptune™ Direct Water-Cooling expertise that is ready to seize as much as 98% of the warmth produced by the supercomputer. Liquidcooling saves the vitality used for the followers, and because of the elevated effectivity, the temperature of the CPUs doesn’t attain crucial values, avoiding the discount of the utmost frequency of the cores.
As well as, CMCC plans to combine the system with a devoted AI workload answer based mostly on 2 nodes with 8 Nvidia H100 GPUs every. The set up of this method is deliberate for the second half of the 12 months.
HPC to unravel the challenges of local weather change
Based in 2005 with the monetary assist of the then MIUR, the Ministry of the Setting, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Ministry of Finance, the CMCC was born with the precise purpose of finishing up research and fashions of the local weather system, guaranteeing dependable, well timed and rigorous outcomes helpful for designing sustainable progress, defending the setting and creating adaptation and mitigation insurance policies based mostly on information Scientific.
As we speak, the CMCC is a worldwide reference level for the built-in examine of climate-related points and is without doubt one of the few services in Europe devoted completely to analysis on local weather change and its interactions with society and financial techniques. HPC techniques are invaluable instruments for CMCC scientists, who’ve the duty of processing, because of supercomputers, the info collected within the area to foretell how the local weather will change and what results these adjustments may have on the planet and human actions.
On the brand new Cassandra supercomputer, local weather simulation fashions of the earth system, the ocean, each world and regional seasonal forecasting techniques, AI-based local weather change functions will likely be executed.
A robust partnership
Lenovo’s new supercomputer will likely be put in in 2024 on the CMCC Supercomputing Heart (SCC), which has been lively since 2008 and is at present the most important computing facility in Italy fully devoted to the examine of local weather change, in addition to probably the most superior in Europe. The Supercomputing Heart already hosts an HPC system from Lenovo: “Juno, put in in 2022, which has a complete computing energy of roughly 1,134 TFlops and is predicated on Intel processors and NVIDIA GPUs.
“We’re delighted with this renewed collaboration with CMCC, which at this time is a middle of excellence in Europe for analysis on local weather change, a vital subject for our time and for future generations,” stated Alessandro de Bartolo, CEO and Nation Normal Supervisor Infrastructure Options Group at Lenovo. “Excessive-performance computing is a invaluable device to deal with the problem of complexity in analysis institutes, laboratories but in addition within the enterprise as a result of it makes calculations, analyses and simulations that had been beforehand time-consuming and costly accessible. Lenovo is the world’s main provider of supercomputers and on the similar time took the highest spot within the Green500, the rating that measures the vitality effectivity of HPC techniques. Our ambition is to continuously elevate the efficiency of supercomputers by guaranteeing that our HPC techniques keep sustainable vitality consumption ranges.”
“Through the years, because the first set up of HPC techniques at SCC, Lenovo has confirmed to be a really dependable technological associate by providing cutting-edge options, which have allowed CMCC researchers to acquire necessary leads to local weather simulations,” notes Prof. Giovanni Aloisio, Director of the CMCC Supercomputing Heart.
The brand new supercomputer will likely be put in by Ricca IT, a Lenovo licensed enterprise associate, which through the years has gained vital expertise within the HPC and AI fields, among the many most acknowledged firms on the Italian scene.
[1] A petaflop equals a thousand trillion calculations per second (a trillion is one million per third), the place “peta” stands for 10 to fifteen (10^15) whereas “flop” stands for floating level operations per second, i.e. the variety of floating-point operations carried out in a single second.
