Hewlett Packard Enterprise Builds AI Supercomputer for CRIANN to Accelerate Scientific Research and Innovation
17 Outubro 2023 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
France’s HPC and AI data center will provide regional access to
the new AI supercomputer “Austral” to accelerate the nation’s AI
initiative and advance areas in climate modeling, biotechnology,
healthcare, and materials science
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced that it built a
new AI supercomputer, called “Austral”, based on HPE Cray
supercomputers and the HPE Machine Learning Development
Environment, for CRIANN (Centre Régional Informatique et
d’Applications Numériques de Normandie), a high-performance
computing (HPC) and AI data center located in Normandy, France.
Austral was inaugurated on October 12th at a dedicated event in
CRIANN.
The new AI supercomputer is part of ongoing efforts to advance
France’s national AI strategy and was co-funded by the Normandy
Region, the French State, and the European Union through the
European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Austral will help train
robust AI models and run simulations and data analysis to
accelerate scientific discovery and innovation in climate modeling,
biotechnology, healthcare, and materials science, among other
areas.
Austral builds on HPE’s ongoing support for France’s AI
initiatives
Austral is the latest AI development that HPE is fueling for
France. The system builds on other innovations that HPE has
delivered, including the Jean Zay supercomputer for GENCI (Grand
Équipement National de Calcul Intensif), the Adastra supercomputer
for GENCI-CINES (Centre informatique national de l'enseignement
supérieur), and “Champollion,” an AI supercomputer that HPE is
offering through its center of excellence in Grenoble, France, for
broader use.
“France has demonstrated its national commitment to advancing
AI, which is fundamental to propel innovation for the greater good
and the overall prosperity of a nation,” said Justin Hotard,
executive vice president and general manager, HPC, AI & Labs at
HPE. “We are proud to continue partnering with France’s national
and regional centers to accelerate its AI missions by building
powerful solutions using our supercomputers and AI software.
Through our latest collaboration with CRIANN to deliver Austral,
users across public and private organizations will gain access to
tools to create reliable and explainable AI models and tackle
complex simulations to make scientific discoveries and advance
R&D.”
CRIANN serves as a regional resource hub for researchers and
users to learn how to train large AI models on various nationally
funded computing resources, such as the GENCI-CINES Adastra
supercomputer and other resources supplied by EuroHPC.
“CRIANN is committed to providing high-performance computing and
data services to the research and education community in Normandy,
as well as to the private sector,” said Hervé Prigent, managing
director at CRIANN. “With Austral, we have a powerful and flexible
platform that will enable us to run a wide range of applications
and workflows, from simulations and modeling to AI and data
analytics. We are excited to work with HPE to build Austral and
enhance our HPC capabilities.”
France gains new AI supercomputer to accelerate outcomes with
best-of-breed technologies
Austral is built using HPE Cray XD2000 supercomputers and
features the HPE Machine Learning Development Environment (MLDE), a
machine learning development software platform to rapidly train
large-scale models.
The new system will be used to address various R&D projects
that will have a positive impact on humankind, including:
- Predict the impact of global warming by simulating
coastal or river flows directly linked to the Normandy region and
its coasts or extreme atmospheric events.
- Accelerate innovation for autonomous driving by
understanding obstacle avoidance across different environments,
such as railways or adverse weather conditions.
- Advance healthcare initiatives through automated
analysis of medical images, or the automatic annotation of sleep
phases on electroencephalography signals.
Austral will be hosted at CRIANN in a customized HPE HPC pod,
which will use direct liquid cooling (DLC) to optimize energy usage
and reduce the overall carbon footprint of the system.
Austral will deliver more than two petaflops of peak
performance, which is twice as much compute performance and ten
times as much accelerated compute performance, compared to CRIANN’s
previous resources.
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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edge-to-cloud company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes
by unlocking value from all their data, everywhere. Built on
decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way
people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and intelligent
technology solutions as a service. With offerings spanning Cloud
Services, Compute, High Performance Computing & AI, Intelligent
Edge, Software, and Storage, HPE provides a consistent experience
across all clouds and edges, helping customers develop new business
models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance.
For more information, visit: www.hpe.com
About CRIANN
CRIANN (Centre Régional Informatique et d’Applications
Numériques de Normandie) is a public organization that provides
high-performance computing and data services to higher education
institutions, public research laboratories, and R&D in
Normandy. CRIANN operates a regional network infrastructure (SYVIK)
that connects various academic institutions and public entities, as
well as a computing platform (Austral) that supports various
scientific domains and applications. CRIANN also offers training
and support for researchers and engineers who use its services. For
more information, visit: www.criann.fr
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Benjamin Lesueur (benjamin.lesueur@hpe.com)
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