Eurotech scores first and second place in the Green500, the ranking of most efficient supercomputers in the world
June 28 2013 - 1:12PM
Italian Regulatory (Text)
Eurotech scores first and second place in the Green500, the
ranking of most efficient supercomputers in the world
Amaro (Italy) Â June 28, 2013. Eurotech, a leading provider of
embedded and supercomputing technologies, scored both the first and
second place of the Green 500, the ranking of the most energy
efficient supercomputers in the world, with the Eurora
supercomputer installed at CINECA and the Aurora Tigon
supercomputer installed at the Finmeccanica company Selex ES,
specialised in information technology and security. Eurora, the
supercomputer of CINECA, entered in first place with 3210 MFlop/s
per Watt, while the system of Selex ES, Aurora Tigon, was ranked
2nd with a value of 3180 MFlop/s per Watt. To give an idea of the
importance of the result, the 3rd place of the Green500 is occupied
by a system from the famous Cray with 2450 MFlop/s per Watt, which
is a value 25% lower than that obtained from the computers produced
by Eurotech. The Eurora prototype is intended to progress in the
optimization of the energy efficient high performance computing
system towards the deployment of exascale computing system with a
total cost of ownership affordable and sustainable. Such a result
was made possible by the combination of the energy aware Eurotech
design and the high-performance efficiency of the NVIDIA®
GPU-accelerators. The Eurora supercomputer ìs equipped, at each
computing note, with two Intel Xeon E5-2687W CPUs and two NVIDIA®
Tesla® K20 GPU accelerators based on the NVIDIA KeplerTM
architecture. Built on a very similar architecture, the Aurora
Tigon HPC system, the commercial version of Eurora, is used by
Selex ES to accelerate computation of algorithms and application
regarding cyber security. Recently, fields like IT security and
surveillance have required growing computational power due to the
complexity of modern networks and the sheer amount of data to
analyse. Entering the Green 500 in top positions, Selex ES proves
to have put energy efficiency as a rationale in their IT purchase
decisions, looking to reduce operating costs. Thanks to savings in
energy and space, solutions like the Aurora systems can reduce TCO
(total cost of onwership) by an average of 30%-50%. Compared to a
conventional air-cooled system, Aurora HPCs enable computing
centers to save up to 50% on energy bills, while reducing space
occupancy by 5 times due to higher density system configurations.
"It's a result that makes us proud and that rewards our efforts and
our investments," said Roberto Siagri, President and CEO of
Eurotech S.p.A. "It's a success that has been achieved in spite of
a national system that has not shown up to now sufficient
sensitivity to Italian supercomputing technologies." "The paradox
that we are living," he added Siagri "is that with a `Brain in
Italy' approach Italian engineers has brought two machines in the
top two positions of the Green500, but in the last two Italian
public procurements for supercomputers the parameter of energy
efficiency has been absent or only marginally considered. In Italy
we complain that businesses invest little in research and
innovation, but then the proof of facts is that even when companies
invest
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and achieve excellent results are snubbed and the State, through
its bodies, end up buying, in this context, products from
non-Italian suppliers and less cutting-edge." "Eurora, the machine
installed at CINECA in Bologna, is the outcome of a European
research project, and was built largely thanks to European funds.
Moreover, thanks to Europe, which is funding the DEEP project,
coordinated by the Juelich Research Centre in Germany, we are
designing an innovative generation of supercomputers that aims to
ExaFlops, i.e. to reach a billion billion operations per second.
Europe has long pursued a policy of promotion of European
supercomputing technologies, understanding that are critical for
industrial competitiveness and thus for the future economic
development of the European Union itself: for the years to come,
planned spending on HPC exceed the one billion euro a year."
Eurotech contributes to add two liquid cooled systems to the top
Green 500 positions, emphasizing the "green" flavour of it, since a
technology like the Aurora direct hot liquid cooling adopted by
CINECA and Selex ES, when compared to traditional air cooled
supercomputers, not only increases the energy efficiency of HPC
machines, but also allows to drastically cut air conditioning
needs, reducing costs and carbon footprint. Speaking about "green"
implications, the Eurora system of CINECA, when compared to an
equivalent performance air cooled system, brings a reduction of
more than 2,300 tons of CO2 emissions per rack in 5 years. In
addition, the water heated up in the Aurora systems can be re-used
to heat buildings, drive adsorption chillers for air conditioning
or in industrial processes. The hot-liquid cooling and the compact
design allow high density (350 TFlop/s per rack) and consequent
savings in space, for a further reduction in the carbon
footprint.
Note: the DEEP project is funded by the European Commission, under
the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7-ICT-2011-7, Integrated Project
No. 287530).
Eurotech Eurotech (ETH.MI) is a global company based in Italy and
with subsidiaries in Europe, North America and Asia. The Eurotech
Group develops and markets miniaturized computers for special uses
(NanoPCs) and computers featuring high computing capacity (HPCs Â
High Performance Computers). With these two product categories
Eurotech aims to become a leader in the implementation of the
pervasive computing scenario which, by exploiting the Cloud IT
infrastructure, is capable of enabling an entire range of
value-added activities and services in the transport, logistics,
security, industrial and medical sectors. Learn more about Eurotech
at www.eurotech.com Company contacts: Investor relations Andrea
Barbaro Tel. +39 0433 485411 e-mail: andrea.barbaro@eurotech.com
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