Cray and Fujitsu Partner to Power Supercomputing in the Exascale Era
November 12 2019 - 6:30PM
Global supercomputer leader Cray, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise
company (NYSE: HPE), and leading Japanese information and
communication technology company Fujitsu (TSE: 6702), today
announced a partnership to offer high performance technologies for
the Exascale Era. Under the alliance agreement, Cray is developing
the first-ever commercial supercomputer powered by the Fujitsu
A64FX Arm®-based processor with high-memory bandwidth (HBM) and
supported on the proven Cray CS500 supercomputer architecture and
programming environment. Initial customers include Los Alamos
National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, RIKEN Center
for Computational Science, Stony Brook University, and University
of Bristol. As part of this new partnership, Cray and Fujitsu will
explore engineering collaboration, co-development, and joint
go-to-market to meet customer demand in the supercomputing
space.
“Our partnership with Fujitsu means customers now have a broader
choice of processor technology to address their pressing
computational needs,” said Fred Kohout, senior vice president and
CMO at Cray, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. “We are
delivering the development-to-deployment
experience customers have come to expect from Cray, including
exploratory development to the Cray Programming Environment (CPE)
for Arm processors to optimize performance and scalability with
additional support for Scalable Vector Extensions and high
bandwidth memory.” Cray customers are leaders in their
respective fields and often look for opportunities to gain the next
edge in performance. The new Fujitsu processor is unique in that it
is the first processor to deliver both HBM and Arm Scalable Vector
Extensions (SVE). HBM2 provides transfer speeds that are
significantly faster than DDR4 giving the A64FX a maximum
theoretical memory bandwidth greater than 1 terabyte per second
(TB/s), and support for Arm SVE provides improved performance for
artificial intelligence and analytics. The Cray CS500 system can
apply this compute power to a wide range of HPC and AI workloads
while still delivering hallmark features of Arm-based systems with
high parallelization, low power consumption and high
reliability.
“It’s a pleasure to partner with Cray on building technologies
for the next era of computing,” said Takeshi Horie, corporate
executive officer, vice head of service Platform Business Group at
Fujitsu. “Both companies have a strong legacy of supercomputing and
vector processing. The A64FX Arm processor was designed to empower
a wide range of data-intensive applications and is the world’s
first CPU to adopt the SVE of the Armv8-A instruction set
architecture, specifically extended for supercomputers.”
The Cray supercomputer powered by Fujitsu A64FX will be
available through Cray to customers in mid-2020.
Supporting Quotes
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) - “The
most demanding computing work at LANL involves sparse, irregular,
multi-physics, multi-link-scale, highly resolved, long running 3D
simulations,” said Gary Grider, deputy division leader, HPC
division at LANL. “There are few existing architectures that
currently serve this workload well. We are excited to see a
potential solution and are happy to be helping prove this Cray and
Fujitsu technology is a viable alternative for this need.
Having this type of capability will be quite complementary to other
resources in the NNSA computing complex.”
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) – “The
U.S. Department of Energy is the world’s leader in high-performance
computing in support of its missions, which include ensuring
America’s prosperity by addressing energy and environmental
challenges through transformative science and technology
solutions,’” said Jeff Nichols, associate lab director for
computing and computational sciences at Oak Ridge National
Laboratory. “This new system will enable our scientists to
experiment with possible system architectures for the Exascale Era
and advance the DOE mission.”
RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS)
- “The new Fujitsu A64FX processor, one of the fastest Arm
processors in the world and to be made commercially available from
Cray and Fujitsu, also underpins ‘Fugaku,’ Japan’s next-generation
flagship supercomputer at our RIKEN Center for Computational
Science,” said Satoshi Matsuoka, director of R-CCS. " We are
extremely interested how A64FX on Cray CS500 machines with the Cray
Programming Environment will excel in performance, and hope it will
have a major impact on high-performance computing, especially as
converged workloads take precedence in the field. We look forward
to working with Cray and our partner Fujitsu to further enhance the
software ecosystem for high-performance Arm.”
Stony Brook University - “Using the latest
technologies is critical to advancing the frontiers of research,
whether in industry or academia, and we’re looking forward to
putting our Cray-Fujitsu system, named Ookami, which is Japanese
for wolf, into production,” said Robert Harrison, principal
investigator and project director for Stony Brook University.
“Funded by the National Science Foundation, the new system will
boost national competitiveness and enable US researchers to achieve
extremely high performance for a wide range of applications.
Memory-bandwidth-intensive applications will be especially
accelerated by the ultrahigh-bandwidth memory while still being
able to employ familiar and successful multi-core programming
models."
University of Bristol – “We’ve been on a
journey toward Arm-based supercomputing and the new Cray and
Fujitsu Arm system will bring us closer to
that reality,” said Professor Simon McIntosh-Smith,
professor of high-performance computing at the University of
Bristol. “We are looking forward to innovating and
pushing the boundaries of what Arm technologies are capable of and
witnessing the tremendous performance that will come about on
the Cray A64FX Arm supercomputer. To that end, we are planning a
new system, Isambard 2, and expect to incorporate these new
technologies and make them available to UK scientists later in
2020.”
Arm – “As the Arm Neoverse ecosystem continues
to expand, we’re seeing growing demand for the performance and
innovation Arm-based processors deliver,” said Chris Bergey, senior
vice president and general manager, Infrastructure Line of
Business, Arm. “Fujitsu and Cray have leveraged this
innovation and achieved a significant milestone being the first
high-bandwidth memory supercomputing system in market, and Arm is
proud to be part of it.”
About Cray Inc.Cray, a Hewlett Packard
Enterprise company, combines computation and creativity so
visionaries can keep asking questions that challenge the limits of
possibility. Drawing on more than 45 years of experience, Cray
develops the world’s most advanced supercomputers, pushing the
boundaries of performance, efficiency and scalability. Cray
continues to innovate today at the convergence of data and
discovery, offering a comprehensive portfolio of supercomputers,
high-performance storage, data analytics and artificial
intelligence solutions. Go to www.cray.com for more
information.
About FujitsuFujitsu is the leading Japanese
information and communication technology (ICT) company, offering a
full range of technology products, solutions, and services.
Approximately 132,000 Fujitsu people support customers in more than
100 countries. We use our experience and the power of ICT to shape
the future of society with our customers. Fujitsu Limited (TSE:
6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.0 trillion yen (US $36
billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2019. For more
information, please see www.fujitsu.com.
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