U.S. Department of Energy Advances Nuclear Stockpile Research and Simulations with 4X More Powerful Supercomputer Built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise - Seite 2

Continuing Historical Success of Supercomputing for the National Nuclear Security Administration

HPE, along with Cray, has worked closely with the DOE’s national laboratories for decades to provide advanced and diverse HPC solutions that support the NNSA in ensuring the nation’s nuclear stockpile is safe, secure and effective.

In addition to the Crossroads system at Los Alamos National Laboratory, HPE is the provider of choice for additional systems to support other DOE missions, including the upcoming exascale systems, Aurora at Argonne National Laboratory, Frontier at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and El Capitan at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

“This machine will advance our ability to study the most complex physical systems for science and national security. We look forward to its arrival and deployment,” said Jason Pruet, Program Director for the Advanced Simulating and Computing Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

“Sandia is pleased to be part of the ACES team, and we anticipate that the Crossroads supercomputer will be highly efficient at running the largest physics and engineering calculations in support our Nation’s nuclear deterrent,” said S. Scott Collis, Director, Center for Computing Research at Sandia National Laboratories.

Empowering Innovation with Next-Generation HPC Technologies

The HPE Cray EX supercomputer, which will power Crossroads, will feature the following next-generation HPC solutions for faster performance, greater efficiency, and overall workload optimization:

• Powerful, AI-accelerated compute from Intel using future Intel Xeon processors code-named “Sapphire Rapids” with next-generation Intel Deep Learning Boost (with Advanced Matrix Extensions) and an advanced memory architecture
• Sophisticated liquid-cooling capabilities for larger scale systems from HPE to increase overall efficiency in electricity and water usage used to operate the system
• Fully integrated suite of software designed for HPC using the HPE Cray Programming Environment to improve programmer productivity, application scalability, and performance
• HPE Slingshot for purpose-built HPC networking to address demands for higher speed and congestion control for data-intensive workloads

To learn more about the Crossroads system and planned projects it will support, please visit: https://www.lanl.gov/projects/crossroads/