TMCnet News
KU Leuven and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Advance AI Capabilities through New SupercomputerPALO ALTO, Calif., April 24, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) today announced a new supercomputer installation at KU Leuven, a Flemish research university consistently ranked as one of the five most innovative universities in the world. HPE collaborated with KU Leuven to develop and deploy Genius, a new supercomputer built to run artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The system will be available to both academia and the industry to build applications that drive scientific breakthroughs, economic growth and innovation in Flanders, the northern region of Belgium. Supercomputers – the most sophisticated high-performance computers (HPC) – increasingly play a crucial role in generating actionable insights from vast amounts of data. Applications such as artificial intelligence (AI) – for which HPC is a foundational technology – have evolved rapidly in recent years and are introducing new powerful methods in scientific research. AI has the promise to radically change economics, digital humanities, biomedical sciences and cosmology. Genius to further innovation in Flanders The university, together with HPE, also will provide training for researchers, equipping them with the knowledge and skills required to successfully and productively work with HPC systems in the future. Training activities will include CPU optimization techniques as well as GPU code modernization and optimization techniques. Specialized Machine Learning trainings also will be offered. Jan Ooghe, KU Leuven said: Dr. Eng Lim Goh, PHD, VP and SGI CTO, HPE: 20,000 smartphones combined For this system, each GPU could make the computational equivalent of two standard dual-socket servers. With four GPUs in one server, the compute power transforms from one server to nine. Genius is comprised of a cluster with 96 CPU compute nodes and 20 GPU machines with 4 GPUs per server; the result is a blazing fast system, particularly with AI workloads. With 600 teraflops of power and 28 terabytes of memory, Genius has the equivalent of 20,000 smartphones behind a single touch. Designed, built and supported by HPE, the deployment is located at the university’s main campus in Leuven in a state-of-the-art green datacenter. About Hewlett Packard Enterprise About KU Leuven About VSC The Flemish Supercomputer Center (VSC) was established by the Flemish Government in December 2007 with the aim to join the efforts of the five Flemish university to align and integrate their existing supercomputer infrastructures, to make their expertise available to public and private funded research and to develop a technical and financial plan for the construction of a competitive grid and HPC infrastructure available to all researchers in Flanders. Editorial contact Lindsey Berryhill, HPE |