ESI's new European HPC Center Benefits from the Latest Datacenter Infrastructures by Legrand
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ESI's new European HPC Center
Benefits from the Latest Datacenter
Infrastructures by Legrand
The Great Technical Achievement
Behind this new Point of Distribution
Paris, France - December 21, 2015 - ESI Group, pioneer and world-leading
solution provider in Virtual Prototyping for manufacturing industries, announces
the opening of its new European HPC Center. The datacenter is now based on the
Teratec Campus, an ideal location to launch collaborative High-Performance
Computing (HPC) projects as it is in the vicinity of Europe's biggest HPC
center: the CEA's "Très Grand Centre de Calcul". The new datacenter will
effectively act as ESI's PoD (Point of Delivery), serving all ESI offices across
Europe as a platform for ESI's new software development and engineering services
alike. ESI teamed up with Legrand, the global specialist in electrical and
digital building infrastructures to meet the technical challenges surrounding
this project.
For years, Legrand has been supplying integrated solutions for lighting, energy,
networks, and access management in buildings. Present in more than 80 countries
with a workforce of over 36,000, the Group's mission is to design, develop, and
market electrical and digital systems that are both simple and innovative. Since
2009, Legrand has intensified its activity in the UPS (Uninterruptible Power
Supply) sector, as required for efficiently operating datacenters aimed at
supporting HPC activities, especially with the acquisition of S2S in France.
To build its new datacenter at Teratec, ESI worked with Legrand Datacenter
Solutions, a branch specialized in delivering adequate answers to the numerous
challenges inherent to supercomputing: from energy efficiency to cooling,
security, and scalability. ESI also teamed up with Minkels, a company belonging
to the Legrand Group and specializing in datacenter hardware, including housing,
UPS, cooling, monitoring and power distribution solutions, together with their
partner Cap Ingelec, strong of 20 years' experience in data centers.
"In most buildings, the economic and/or safety and security issues necessitate
reliable availability of energy and data and the costs associated with a loss of
operation can be very substantial," comments Pascal Perrin, Datacenter Business
Development Manager at Legrand. "Our solutions ensure the electrical and digital
supply of the data center at all times." Continuous availability of power supply
is of uttermost importance to make sure ESI can run large HPC calculations
smoothly, as required to deliver projects at the right time to ESI's industrial
customers.
Vincent Chaillou, COO, ESI Group, explains: "ESI successfully completed the
implantation of its new datacenter, in collaboration with Legrand. Aside of
guaranteeing Uninterrupted Power Supply to support our software and services
operations, this intelligent infrastructure is set to adapt to ESI's evolving
needs and computational loads. It delivers a scalable, adaptable infrastructure,
ready to anticipate the next big technological challenges, including Big Data
evolutions and the Internet of Things."
Pascal Perrin adds: "In the era of virtualization and cloud computing, a massive
increase in the volume of data is expected: the annual growth in data is
expected to rise from 50% in 2010 to reach 4400% in 2020[1]. This rapid growth
will have a major impact on how we design our server rooms, with scalability
becoming vital."
Other devices installed by Legrand include air filters, protecting equipment
from dust that tends to overheat hardware, so these can last longer. The
datacenter also benefits from Legrand's energy saving technologies, reducing the
ecological footprint of ESI's activities, as part of the company's commitment to
the environment and future generations.
Marc Daoud, Account Manager at Minkels, explains: "ESI's new datacenter features
Minkel's Cold Corridor®. This technology segregates the cold and hot airflows
using advanced air conditioning systems. The housing solution uses specific foam
joints to make sure it's airtight. Cold air is pulsed into the external alleys
to cool down the supercomputers, and comes out hot into the central alley. The
level of cold air absorption obtained is optimum, so that temperature variations
are kept to a minimum: temperature inside the rack must remain between 22°C and
28°C. All in all, our technology delivers the best possible environment to run
effective operations while protecting hardware and ensure its durability."
Vincent Chaillou concludes, "ESI is now equipped with a Cloud Computing PoD to
run state of the art calculations, as required to leverage our developments and
engineering studies in the field of Virtual Prototyping. This new PoD actively
contributes to achievement of ESI's vision: by granting our customers access to
HPC and Cloud Computing, and by democratizing the use of such technologies, we
propose a new model to our industrial customers - empowering them to deliver
disruptive innovations."
Image: ESI's Point of Delivery for Cloud Computing, based in Teratec Campus
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About ESI Group
ESI is a world-leading provider of Virtual Prototyping software and services
with a strong foundation in the physics of materials and Virtual Manufacturing.
Founded over 40 years ago, ESI has developed a unique proficiency in helping
industrial manufacturers replace physical prototypes by virtually replicating
the fabrication, assembly and testing of products in different environments.
Virtual Prototyping enables ESI's clients to evaluate the performance of their
product and the consequences of its manufacturing history, under normal or
accidental conditions. By benefiting from this information early in the process,
enterprises know whether a product can be built, and whether it will meet its
performance and certification objectives, before any physical prototype is
built. To enable customer innovation, ESI's solutions integrate the latest
technologies in high performance computing and immersive Virtual Reality,
allowing companies to bring products to life before they even exist.
Today, ESI's customer base spans nearly every industry sector. The company
employs about 1000 high-level specialists worldwide to address the needs of
customers in more than 40 countries. For further information, visit www.esi-
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About Legrand
Legrand is the global specialist in electrical and digital building
infrastructures. Its comprehensive offering of solutions for commercial,
industrial and residential markets makes it a benchmark for customers worldwide.
Drawing on a nearly 10-year CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) approach that
involves all employees, Legrand is pursuing its strategy of profitable and
sustainable growth driven by innovation, with a steady flow of new
offerings--including Eliot* connected products that enhance value in use--and
acquisitions. Legrand reported sales of ?4.5 billion in 2014. The company is
listed on Euronext Paris and is a component stock of indexes including the
CAC40, FTSE4Good, MSCI World, Corporate Oekom Rating and DJSI (ISIN code
FR0010307819).
For further information, please visit www.legrand.com
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[1] Source: Gartner Research.
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