Companies Lenovo and Intel deployed in Europe, a high-performance computing system that can claim one of the first lines in the ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers Top500. The SuperMUC-NG system is designed for the benefit of the Leibniz supercomputer center (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich, Germany. The project is implemented using more than 6,500 computing nodes Lenovo Think System SD650 next generation, Intel Xeon Platinum processors with Intel Advanced Vector Extensions technology (Intel AVX 512) and Intel Omni-Path architecture. It is expected that the construction of the complex will be completed by the end of 2018. The system will provide processing power of 26.7 petaflops (quadrillion floating point operations per second). For comparison: the leading position in the current ranking of Top500 is the Chinese supercomputer Sunway TaihuLight, whose performance is 93 petaflops. The second line contains the system Tianhe-2 (MilkyWay-2) with a capacity of 33.9 petaflops, and the third - the complex Piz Daint with a capacity of 19.6 petaflops. Thanks to Intel's technical optimization, as well as the use of Lenovo's latest water cooling technology, which releases dedicated heat energy and maintains optimal system temperatures, the SuperMUC-NG supercomputer will reduce maintenance costs.

In combination with the Lenovo Energy Aware Run-Time (EAR) software, which dynamically monitors system infrastructure power while running applications, Lenovo's integrated water cooling technology provides LRZ with 45% more energy savings compared to a similar air cooling system. After commissioning, SuperMUC-NG supercomputer will be used in research on a whole range of scientific disciplines - astrophysics, hydrodynamics, biology, medicine and other.

Original article: Lenovo and Intel will build one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe.