SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – ISC—NVIDIA announced today that its NVIDIA HGX ™ high-performance computing platform will power Tursa, the University of Edinburgh’s new DiRAC supercomputer.
Optimized for computational particle physics, Tursa is the third of four officially announced next-generation DiRAC supercomputers accelerated by one or more NVIDIA HGX platform technologies, including NVIDIA A100 tensor core GPUs, NVIDIA HDR 200Gb / s InfiniBand network and NVIDIA Magnum IO ™ Software. The final next-generation DiRAC supercomputer is said to have an NVIDIA InfiniBand network.
Tursa will enable researchers to perform ultra-precise calculations of the properties of subatomic particles necessary to interpret data from experiments in massive particle physics such as the Large Hadron Collider.
“DiRAC helps researchers unravel the mysteries of the universe,” said Gilad Shainer, NVIDIA senior vice president of networking. “Our collaboration with DiRAC will accelerate cutting-edge scientific research across a wide range of workloads leveraging the unrivaled performance of NVIDIA GPUs, DPUs and InfiniBand in-network computing accelerators.”
“Tursa was designed to address unique research challenges to open up new opportunities for scientific modeling and simulation,” said Luigi Del Debbio, professor of theoretical physics at the University of Edinburgh and project leader for the DiRAC-3 deployment. “NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform enables the extremely scalable service to drive new discoveries by precisely balancing network bandwidth and flops to achieve the unrivaled performance our research demands.”
The Tursa supercomputer, which was built with Atos and is expected to go live later this year, will contain 448 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs and 4x NVIDIA HDR 200 Gb / s InfiniBand network adapters per node. NVIDIA Magnum IO GPUDirect® RDMA enables the system to use Lattice Quantum ChromoDynamics to provide the highest level of internode bandwidth and scalability for scientific applications on an extreme scale.
The system is operated by DiRAC – the UK’s integrated supercomputing facility for theoretical modeling and HPC-based research in astronomy, cosmology, particle physics and nuclear physics – with locations at the University of Cambridge, Durham University, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Leicester.
CSD3 at the University of Cambridge, COSMA-8 at Durham University
NVIDIA announced at GTC 21 in April that the Cambridge Data Driven Discovery Service Discover, also known as CSD3, is being expanded with a new 4 petaflops Dell EMC system with NVIDIA HGX A100 GPUs, BlueField® DPUs and NVIDIA HDR 200Gb / s InfiniBand Networking, which will provide secure, multi-tenant bare metal HPC, AI and data analysis services to a broad cross-section of the UK research community. CSD3 is expected to be among the 500 best supercomputers in the world. The DiRAC Data Intensive Service in Cambridge is part of the CSD3 system.
NVIDIA also announced at GTC 21 that Durham University’s new COSMA-8 supercomputer – used by the world’s leading cosmologists in the UK to explore the origins of the universe – powered by Dell technology and accelerated by NVIDIA HDR 200 Gb / s InfiniBand network.
More details on the fourth system at the University of Leicester are expected later this year.
Turn on the NVIDIA ISC 2021 special address at 9:30 a.m. PT to catch the latest news from NVIDIA’s Marc Hamilton, followed by a live Q&A panel with NVIDIA HPC experts. Learn more about DiRAC and its facilities at NVIDIA’s ISC 2021 Digital Panel Discussion.
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