New Cray Supercomputer Brings Advanced AI Capabilities to the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart
24 Oktober 2019 - 3:00PM
Global supercomputer leader Cray, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise
company (NYSE: HPE), today announced that the High-Performance
Computing Center of the University of Stuttgart (HLRS) in Germany
has selected a new Cray CS-Stormä GPU-accelerated
supercomputer to advance its computing infrastructure in response
to user demand for processing-intensive applications like machine
learning and deep learning. The new Cray system is tailored for
artificial intelligence (AI) and includes the Cray Urika®-CS AI and
Analytics suite, enabling HLRS to accelerate AI workloads, arm
users to address complex computing problems and process more data
with higher accuracy of AI models in engineering, automotive,
energy, and environmental industries and academia.
“As we extend our service portfolio with AI, we require an
infrastructure that can support the convergence of traditional
high-performance computing applications and AI workloads to better
support our users and customers,” said Prof. Dr. Michael Resch,
director at HRLS. “We’ve found success working with our current
Cray Urika-GX system for data analytics, and we are now at a point
where AI and deep learning have become even more important as a set
of methods and workflows for the HPC community. Our researchers
will use the new CS-Storm system to power AI applications to
achieve much faster results and gain new insights into traditional
types of simulation results.”
Supercomputer users at HLRS are increasingly asking for access
to systems containing AI acceleration capabilities. With the
GPU-accelerated CS-Storm system and Urika-CS AI and Analytics
suite, which leverages popular machine intelligence frameworks like
TensorFlow and PyTorch, HLRS can provide machine learning and deep
learning services to its leading teaching and training programs,
global partners and R&D. The Urika-CS AI and Analytics suite
includes Cray’s Hyperparameter Optimization (HPO) and Cray
Programming Environment Deep Learning Plugin, arming system users
with the full potential of deep learning and advancing the services
HLRS offers to its users interested in data analytics, machine
learning and related fields.
“The future will be driven by the convergence of modeling and
simulation with AI and analytics and we’re honored to be working
with HLRS to further their AI initiatives by providing advanced
computing technology for the Center’s engineering and HPC training
and research endeavors,” said Peter Ungaro, president and CEO at
Cray, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. “HLRS has the
opportunity to apply AI to improve and scale data analysis for the
benefit of its core research areas, such as looking at trends in
industrial HPC usage, creating models of car collisions, and
visualizing black holes. The Cray CS-Storm combined with the unique
Cray-CS AI and Analytics suite will allow HLRS to better tackle
converged AI and simulation workloads in the exascale era.”
In addition to the Cray CS-Storm architecture and Cray-CS AI and
Analytics suite, the system will feature NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core
GPUs and Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
“The convergence of AI and scientific computing has accelerated
the pace of scientific progress and is helping solve the world's
most challenging problems,” said Paresh Kharya, Director of Product
Management and Marketing at NVIDIA. “Our work with Cray and HLRS on
their new GPU-accelerated system will result in a modern HPC
infrastructure that addresses the demands of the Center’s research
community to combine simulation with the power of AI to advance
science, find cures for disease, and develop new forms of
energy.”
The system is scheduled for delivery to HLRS in November
2019.
About Cray Inc.Cray, a Hewlett Packard
Enterprise company, combines computation and creativity so
visionaries can keep asking questions that challenge the limits of
possibility. Drawing on more than 45 years of experience, Cray
develops the world’s most advanced supercomputers, pushing the
boundaries of performance, efficiency and scalability. Cray
continues to innovate today at the convergence of data and
discovery, offering a comprehensive portfolio of supercomputers,
high-performance storage, data analytics and artificial
intelligence solutions. Go to www.cray.com for more
information.
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