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October 19 2020 - 9:45AM
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Pawsey will gain 30X more
compute power and 10X more energy efficiency with advanced
supercomputing solutions using the HPE Cray EX supercomputer
featuring future AMD EPYC™ CPUs and AMD Instinct™ GPUs
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HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE SELECTED TO BUILD AUSTRALIA’S MOST
POWERFUL SUPERCOMPUTER FOR ADVANCING SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AT PAWSEY
SUPERCOMPUTING CENTRE
Pawsey will gain 30X more
compute power and 10X more energy efficiency with advanced
supercomputing solutions using the HPE Cray EX supercomputer
featuring future AMD EPYC™ CPUs and AMD Instinct™ GPUs
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced it was awarded
a $48 AUD million contract to build a new supercomputer for Pawsey
Supercomputing Centre, one of Australia’s leading and most
innovative national supercomputing centers located in Western
Australia. The new supercomputer is part of the Pawsey Capital
Refresh Program, which is a $70 AUD million program funded by the
Australian government to invest in next-generation supercomputing
to advance the nation’s research.
Pawsey’s new system will be Australia’s most powerful
supercomputer with 30X more compute power and 10X more energy
efficiency1 to target complex modeling and simulation for
accelerating research in areas such as astronomy, plant pathology,
drug discovery and more.
HPE will build the new system using the HPE Cray EX
supercomputer, the world’s most advanced high-performance computing
(HPC) architecture, to support higher performance, density, and
efficiency needs. HPE will also integrate the Cray ClusterStor
E1000 system, which utilizes tailored software and hardware
features to meet expanded high-performance storage needs, and
feature a future-generation of AMD EPYC™ CPUs and AMD Instinct™
GPUs for significant compute power and targeted processors for AI
and image-driven applications.
“Supercomputers like those at Pawsey are increasingly crucial to
our ability to conduct world-class, high-impact research. The
upgrades we’re announcing are a critical move in strengthening
Australia’s position in the global research environment and playing
a part in major global research projects, from helping in the fight
against COVID-19 to working with the precursor telescopes to the
Square Kilometre Array,” said Mark Stickells, executive director at
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre. “The new supercomputer built by HPE
will not only deliver next generation compute power to meet these
growing requirements, it will enable entirely new research projects
with global reach and impact.”
Accelerating Scientific Discovery at Pawsey Supercomputing
Centre
HPE, Cray and SGI, well before the companies merged with HPE,
have had a 20 year-long history in powering Pawsey’s
supercomputers. More than 1,600 researchers use these systems today
to accelerate discovery and innovation. Recent outcomes from
Pawsey’s supercomputers include:
- Understanding grape vine viruses to preserve crop
production: Pawsey’s supercomputers have been used to study
grapevine leaf-roll viruses (GLRV) which infect grape vines and
impact up to 70% of production across Australia. Scientists sped up
the assembling, mapping and analysis from GLRV genome data which
has helped vineyard owners today identify and remove infected vines
before the virus spreads.
- Using AI to teach underwater robots to swim like fish:
Underwater robotics are used in environmental monitoring, resource
exploration, search and rescue efforts and more. To further improve
navigation for underwater robots and enable them to be autonomous,
scientists are teaching them to swim like fish. Computational fluid
dynamics models were developed and leveraged on Pawsey’s
supercomputers to simulate fish swimming styles, including how they
increase speed and change direction, and applied these capabilities
in machine learning algorithms to train neural networks on
underwater robotics.
- Solving mysteries of the universe: In an ongoing quest
to uncover unknown parts of the universe, scientists used improved
sky-mapping techniques to detect seven new galaxies which has been
further studied using complex modeling and simulation as a step to
understanding dark matter and the universe’s overall physical
processes. Researchers also use this knowledge to improve
technologies used on earth, such as scanners and communications
networks.
“Scientific breakthroughs made by world leading research
centers, such as Pawsey Supercomputer Centre, inspire us to
continue empowering the community with powerful supercomputing
solutions that combat the broadest range of challenges,” said Nick
Gorga, general manager, HPC and AI, APAC-India at HPE. “We look
forward to collaborating with AMD to build Pawsey the most powerful
system for the region and boost Australia’s research capabilities
to advance missions from understanding human viruses to discovering
new galaxies.”
The new system will have a speed performance of 50 petaflops,
making it one of the largest supercomputers in the region.2 It will
replace Pawsey’s Magnus and Galaxy systems, which are based on Cray
technology.
“AMD is excited to help accelerate groundbreaking scientific
research with our high-performance processors in the
next-generation HPE and Pawsey supercomputer,” said Forrest Norrod,
senior vice president and general manager, AMD Data Center and
Embedded Systems Group. “Significant new discoveries will be made
at the Centre for years to come, enabled by Pawsey’s almost 50
petaflops of supercomputing capacity.”
To learn more about HPE’s supercomputing solutions, please
visit:
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/compute/hpc/supercomputing.html
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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platform-as-a-service company that helps organizations accelerate
outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere.
Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to
advance the way we live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and
intelligent technology solutions, with a consistent experience
across all clouds and edges, to help customers develop new business
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- 30X more compute and 10X energy efficiency compared to Pawsey’s
Magnus system and calculated by Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
- Speed performance of 50 petaflops attributed to overall system
performance advancements compared to Pawsey’s Magnus system
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