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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has built a new supercomputer for the City University of Hong Kong. The University said that the system is capable of up to 1.1 petaflops of performance. CityU’s HPC resources are used by Hong Kong’s academic and government researchers to accelerate scientific discovery in many areas.
HPE said the new high-performance computing (HPC) cluster is a ‘significant performance’ upgrade to CityU’s previous HPC resources, delivering nearly 10 times faster speed. It will be used for applications to improve modeling and simulation across biomedicine, quantum chemistry, and social and behavioral science.
The new CityU HPC cluster, which CityU named “CityU Burgundy,” is built using the HPE Apollo 2000 and HPE Apollo 6500 Gen10 Plus systems, which are purpose-built, density optimized platforms that target demanding HPC and AI applications. HPE also designed CityU Burgundy with 328 AMD EPYC 7742 processors to provide a performance boost to core modeling and simulation workloads, and 56 NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs and 8 NVIDIA A100 80GB Tensor Core GPUs to support a range of image analysis, machine learning and AI capabilities.
Bill Mannel, Vice President and General Manager, HPC, at HPE, said, “High performance computing continues to play a critical role in delivering new capabilities for harnessing large amounts of data to process and generate meaningful insights in almost any field of study. We are honored to have delivered advanced HPC resources for City University of Hong Kong by designing a significantly faster HPC cluster with energy-efficient, end-to-end solutions that has inspired other uses of supercomputing in various disciplines, from traditional forms of science, such as physical, biological and chemical science, to behavioral and social studies.”
The advanced system enables CityU’s researchers to power the following initiatives:
· Advancing biomedicine to accelerate insights in chronic diseases and treatment
· Expanding the use of HPC in other
· Research such as consumer behavior science and algorithmic trading
Dr. Dominic Chien, Senior Scientific Officer (HPC) at CityU, said, “At CityU, HPC plays a critical role in helping us build and support a world-class research team to continue making scientific breakthroughs for humankind. The new HPC cluster brings us one step closer to building Hong Kong’s most powerful HPC platform for academia while achieving operational efficiency and reduced costs. It is particularly encouraging to see an early signal of success as the HPC platform has helped reduce the turnaround time of computations by three to seven times in a quantum chemistry research project.”
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