In this video, researchers from CINECA in Italy describe how their new D.A.V.I.D.E. supercomputer powers science and engineering.
“Developed by E4 Engineering, D.A.V.I.D.E. (Development for an Added Value Infrastructure Designed in Europe) is an Energy Aware Petaflops Class High Performance Cluster based on Power Architecture and coupled with NVIDIA Tesla Pascal GPUs with NVLink. The innovative design of D.A.V.I.D.E. has been developed by E4 Computer Engineering for PRACE, which has as its ultimate goal to produce a leading edge HPC cluster showing higher performance, reduced power consumption and ease of use. The system is the latest addition to CINECA’s Data Center and ranked #18 in Green500 November 2017 list.”
D.A.V.I.D.E. is composed by 45 nodes connected with an efficient Infiniband EDR 100 Gb/s networking, with a total peak performance of 990 TFlops and an estimated power consumption of less than 2kW per node. Each node is a 2 OU OCP form factor and hosts two IBM POWER8 Processors with NVIDIA NVLink and four Tesla P100 data center GPUs, with the intra-node communication layout optimized for best performance.
In this video from ISC 2017, Fabrizio Magugliani from E4 Computer Engineering describes the company’s innovative OP205 OpenPOWER server for HPC applications.