Germany’s Jülich center has ordered a 1.2 million euro Aurora supercomputer from Eurotech for use in the EU-funded project DEEP (Dynamical Exascale Entry Platform).
The DEEP consortium, led by Forschungszentrum Jülich, proposes to develop a novel, Exascale-enabling supercomputing architecture that takes the concept of compute acceleration to a new level: instead of adding accelerator cards to Cluster nodes, an accelerator Cluster, called Booster, will complement a conventional HPC system and increase its compute performance. While the Cluster is an off-the-shelf component, the Booster will be designed and built by the DEEP project partners using cutting edge technology. Together with a software stack focused on meeting Exascale requirements, comprising adapted programming models, libraries and performance tools, the DEEP architecture will enable unprecedented scalability. In the DEEP consortium Eurotech will be the responsible to assemble and design the cabinets, racks and blades of the system.
The HPC 10-10 Aurora supercomputer is based on the Sandy Bridge Intel Xeon 2600 series processors with 32 Gb per node of memory and a 3D Torus driven by Extoll software. Read the Full Story.