Lenovo and Intel will construct the computer system for the supercomputer center of Leibniz

At the end of December, 2017 the companies Lenovo also Intel announced plans to construct the computer system of the next generation for supercomputer center of Leibniz (LRZ) Bavarian academy of Sciences in Munich Germany.

Project Tasks

Being one of the leading European computer centers for professionals in scientific, research and academic communities, LRZ not only manages exponential growing amounts of data, but also is responsible for operational processing and the analysis of these data to accelerate implementation of research projects worldwide. After completion of construction at the end of 2018 the SuperMUC-NG supercomputer will support LRZ in researches on a number of scientific disciplines: to astrophysics, hydrodynamics, biology, medicine and others. It will provide providing available, safe and energy efficient high-performance (HPC) services which uses the advanced technologies optimized for work with a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines.

It is expected that according to the results of the LRZ project will get access to bigger computing power, but thanks to the innovative technology of water cooling will be able to reduce energy costs considerably.

The solution at the heart of the project

SuperMUC-NG represents the complete solution which provides high performance for acceleration of accomplishment of crucial research projects. A system will provide the computing power in 26.7 petaFLOPS implemented using more than 6500 computing Lenovo Think System SD650 nodes of the next generation, processors Intel Xeon Platinum with Intel Advanced Vectir Extensions technology (Intel of AVX 512) and architecture of Intel Omni-Path. A system will support integration into Lenovo Intelligent Computing Orchestrator (LiCO), the software for management of a computing cluster with the intuitive graphical interface for the accelerated application development of HPC, AI and support of cloud environments. A system will allow researchers of LRZ to virtualize, process a huge number of data and to quickly share results with colleagues.

The expected effect

Maintenance of infrastructure of high-performance computing is connected with extremely high operating costs. Thanks to technical optimization of Intel and also use of technologies of water cooling from Lenovo which takes away the emitted thermal energy and maintains optimal temperature in a system the SuperMUC-NG supercomputer will allow to cut down expenses on maintenance. According to Lenovo, in combination with the software of Lenovo Energy Aware Run-Time (EAR) which dynamically controls the power of system infrastructure during operation of applications the complex technology of water cooling of Lenovo provides LRZ for 45% big power saving in comparison with a similar air cooling system. It is supposed that these innovations in the field of energy efficiency will help to reduce even more amount of the carbon selected by the center and also total cost of ownership.

Besides, it is expected that after completion of works the SuperMUC-NG system in the supercomputer center of Leibniz will be included into industry TOP500 list.