TSUBAME4.0, which will be fully operational in spring of 2024,
will deliver 20 times more accelerated compute performance than its
predecessor to accelerate AI-driven cutting-edge research and
convergence science
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that it
was selected by Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) Global
Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC) to build its
next-generation supercomputer, TSUBAME4.0, to accelerate AI-driven
scientific discovery in medicine, materials science, climate
research, and turbulence in urban environments.
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Tokyo Tech is one of the world’s leading universities in science
and technology. With the TSUBAME4.0 supercomputer, users will have
the ability to train more AI models and run applications in
computational science and analytics, simultaneously, to augment
research efforts and improve productivity.
TSUBAME4.0, which was procured under the Japanese government
procurement rules and was awarded to HPE Japan, will be fully
operational in spring of 2024. The system will be based in a newly
constructed facility in Tokyo Tech’s Suzukakedai campus.
TSUBAME4.0 will be built using HPE Cray XD6500 supercomputers,
which provide maximum performance and specialized capabilities to
run modeling and simulation workloads required for complex
scientific research. The HPE Cray XD6500 supercomputers are also
highly dense and purpose-built to support accelerated compute that
is optimized to power AI, analytics, and image-intensive
applications.
“TSUBAME has been supporting our research on cyclic peptide drug
discovery, which is anticipated to become the next-generation
medicine,” said Professor Yutaka Akiyama, School of Computing,
Tokyo Tech. “TSUBAME has always been our partner in the daring
challenges of achieving world’s first. It has been supporting
reproduction of biophysical phenomena with hundred-fold larger
simulations, and through exhaustive calculation on hundreds of
cases has generated quantitative proof of predictive ability. With
the significantly accelerated TSUBAME4.0, we look forward to its
support in realizing intelligent drug discovery through large-scale
molecular simulation and fusing it with deep learning technology in
generating predictive models.”
TSUBAME4.0 will achieve a theoretical peak performance of 66.8
petaflops at 64-bit double precision. Additionally, the system will
reach 952 petaflops at 16-bit half-precision, delivering 20 times
more accelerated compute performance than TSUBAME3.0, its
predecessor. TSUBAME4.0 will provide significantly higher
performance to address the computational demands of many users,
serving as a “supercomputer for everyone”.
“National research centers across the globe rely on
supercomputing to drive science, engineering, and AI initiatives to
understand complex phenomena and accelerate innovation,” said
Justin Hotard, executive vice president and general manager, HPC,
AI & Labs, at HPE. “Tokyo Tech is a powerful example of an
organization that continues to invest in supercomputing and opens
it to a broader community to enable cutting-edge research and new
capabilities in AI. We are proud to continue our collaboration with
Tokyo Tech and NVIDIA to build TSUBAME4.0, which features HPE Cray
supercomputing innovation to deliver the massive performance
required to augment Tokyo Tech’s ongoing scientific and AI-driven
missions.”
Since the launch of TSUBAME1.0 in April 2006, the TSUBAME
supercomputers have provided computing resources to global
industry, academia, and government organizations as “everyone’s
supercomputer”. GSIC of Tokyo Tech is the first university to adopt
GPU-enabled supercomputers1, has gained recognition for delivering
one of the most advanced, cutting-edge supercomputer centers in the
world.
About TSUBAME4.0
TSUBAME4.0 will be built with HPE Cray XD6500 supercomputers,
consisting of 240 nodes, and equipped with two 4th Gen AMD EPYC™
processors, four NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, and 768 GiB of main
memory. TSUBAME4.0 hardware and software are designed to leverage
and augment the current TSUBAME3.0 capabilities as a GPU-based
supercomputer with enhanced usability through various software
enhancements.
“NVIDIA’s computing platform drives acceleration at every scale
for AI and HPC,” said Ian Buck, vice president of HPC and
Hyperscale Computing, NVIDIA. “Tokyo Tech’s TSUBAME4.0
supercomputer, which will be built by HPE and powered by NVIDIA
H100 GPUs, NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand and our AI and HPC software,
will empower researchers and scientists to tackle some of the
world’s most complex challenges and drive breakthroughs that can
benefit society as a whole.”
The TSUBAME4.0 configuration is similar to the existing TSUBAME
series, which involves the x86_64 CPUs and CUDA compatible GPUs.
This will enable the continued use of existing program assets and
the fast-paced adoption of cutting-edge computational science and
technology.
1 TSUBAME 1.2 is the first supercomputer to adopt GPUs. Source:
https://www.nvidia.com/content/pdf/sc_2010/theater/matsuoka_sc10.pdf
About Tokyo Institute of Technology
Tokyo Tech stands at the forefront of research and higher
education as the leading university for science and technology in
Japan. Tokyo Tech researchers excel in fields ranging from
materials science to biology, computer science, and physics.
Founded in 1881, Tokyo Tech hosts over 10,000 undergraduate and
graduate students per year, who develop into scientific leaders and
some of the most sought-after engineers in industry. Embodying the
Japanese philosophy of “monotsukuri,” meaning “technical ingenuity
and innovation,” the Tokyo Tech community strives to contribute to
society through high-impact research.
https://www.titech.ac.jp/english/
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) is the global
edge-to-cloud company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes
by unlocking value from all of 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
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