NEC Supplies LX Supercomputer to RWTH Aachen University in Germany
2017年3月17日 - 4:08PM
JCN Newswire (英)
NEC Corporation (TSE:6701) today announced that NEC Deutschland
GmbH has delivered a supercomputer utilizing NEC's scale-out LX
series compute servers featuring the new Intel Xeon E5-2600 v4
product family, to RWTH Aachen University, one of 11 "Universities
of Excellence" in Germany, offering high performance computing
services for engineering and scientific research.
RWTH is one of Europe's leading universities, with a specific
approach to connecting engineering and natural sciences. The
University optimizes and accelerates the development process for
new products in an integrated approach that is supported by
mathematical modelling and simulation, such as the application of
sciences, including fluid dynamics and material science. The
efficient use of high performance computing capabilities enables
the development of simulation techniques for the flow of materials
throughout the entirety of industry process chains.
The system provided by NEC is built from more than 750 nodes,
consisting of large memory SMP nodes and dual socket MPI compute
nodes, with a total of over 19,000 computational cores capable of
delivering a performance of more than 600 TeraFlop/s, which makes
RWTH one of the top 10 German universities in terms of HPC
resources(1).
The nodes are connected through a high speed Intel Omni-Path
network with a topology that allows continuous expansion of the
system, matching continuous growth of HPC demands from RWTH
researchers.
The compute cluster is completed by a 4 PetaByte NEC LXFS-z
parallel file-system capable of 60 GigaByte/s bandwidth. Moreover,
a scalable ZFS-based Lustre solution provides advanced data
integrity features paired with a high density and high reliability
design.
In addition, the system not only offers leading edge performance,
but it is environmentally friendly at the same time. The
servers are entirely cooled with facility water, which reduces the
air cooling requirements for the computer room by 90 percent. The
cooling system allows water inlet temperatures up to 30?C and the
cluster can be cooled for free most of the year through a heat
exchanger that does not require external cooling power.
"We selected the NEC LX technology because of its superior
performance, as well as low total cost of ownership due to
innovative cooling technology," said Professor Matthias Muller,
head of the IT Center at RWTH Aachen University. "Going forward, we
are excited to work with NEC as a strong corporate partner in
expanding our IT research."
(1) According to RWTH research as of March 17, 2017
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