DGAP-News: SGI Selected by Air Liquide to Power Numerical Simulation
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23.10.2012 09:00
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SGI Delivers a 15 Teraflop HPC System With State of the Art SGI(R) ICE X(TM)
Servers to Claude-Delorme, Paris-Saclay, Research Center
FREMONT, Calif., 2012-10-23 09:00 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
SGI (Nasdaq:SGI), the trusted leader in technical computing, announced it has
been chosen by Air Liquide to provide a 15 Teraflop High Performance Computing
(HPC) solution.
As SGI France's longest-standing client, Air Liquide is the world leader in
gases for industry, health and the environment with a presence in 80 countries
and 46,200 employees. The new system is an essential tool for the group's
scientists as they search for solutions that can benefit their clients.
The HPC configuration is the third upgrade of the SGI ICE blade server
initially installed at Air Liquide in 2008 demonstrating the ability of the ICE
platform to be refreshed regularly with newer technology, in this case with
Intel(r) Xeon(r) E5-2670 processors and Mellanox FDR InfiniBand(r) Non-blocking
Interconnect technology. The system is configured in a dual-plane 'hypercube'
topology, one of four topologies supported by SGI ICE X, and contains several
hundred Xeon cores and 2.3 terabytes of memory. An SGI(r) InfiniteStorage(tm) 5500
RAID array is integrated with the system to provide user temporary file space
via network file system (NFS) or common Internet file system (CIFS), and a
remote visualization capability was also developed by SGI using VirtualGL/Tiger
software and NVIDIA(r) GPUs.
'Since 1987 when Air Liquide's first graphics server was installed at the
Claude-Delorme Research Center, SGI and Air Liquide has built a long-standing
relationship driving innovation with HPC,' stated Marc Simon, technical
director of SGI France. 'The various configurations that have entered into
production based on our close collaboration for more than 25 years are a source
of pride for all of us at SGI.'
'High Performance Computing requirements are steadily increasing in our sector
and are allowing for accelerated innovation in the areas of energy, environment
and health,' said Frederic Camy-Peyret, Modelling&Numerical Simulation R&D
program director for Air Liquide. 'With simulations that are increasingly
reliable and detailed, our molecular modelling and fluid dynamics applications
require not only innovative computing architectures, but also high-performance
storage. This is a comprehensive solution that SGI can provide.'
At Air Liquide, numerical simulation represents a cornerstone of the approach
to innovation chain used in order to understand, predict and optimise Air
Liquide's processes and those of its clients. This approach opens up new paths
for gases for industry, health and the environment. In particular,
high-performance simulation allows for the better forecasting of technological
changes and makes it possible for new solutions to reach the market faster. In
the areas of energy and environment, it is extremely important to control an
innovation from the laboratory phase through to industrial deployment via
predictive numerical simulation.
'Our researchers are coming up with more and more simulations and are
generating increasingly high-volume amounts of data. Access to files has become
just as important as raw computing power. This balance has had a crucial impact
on our IT infrastructure,' Camy-Peyretconcludes.
The computing power is expected to be upgraded in 2013 with the addition of
approximately 10 teraflops to the SGI ICE X supercomputer, making use of the
next-generation Intel Xeon processor family.
About SGI
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