Atos builds a new supercomputer based on AMD Genoa EPYC and Instinct MI300
Atos announced that it will create a new BullSequana XH3000 platform based on AMD Genoa EPYC server processor and Instinct MI300 APU accelerator card, to construct, and install a new high-performance supercomputer for the Max Planck Society, a leading scientific and technological research institute in Munich, Germany.
The order, worth more than 20 million euros, will be operated by the Max Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF), providing high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities for the research of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, including astrophysics, life science research, materials research, plasma physics, and artificial intelligence, etc.
Since the system uses direct immersion liquid cooling, it can operate without fans, significantly improving energy efficiency. It is understood that its power usage efficiency (PUE) value is lower than 1.05 (1 being the ideal ratio), which is far lower than the average level of other high-performance computing systems.
This high-performance supercomputer will use AMD’s EPYC server processor code-named Genoa, and for the first time in the Atos system is equipped with AMD’s next-generation APU accelerator card Instinct MI300 for data centers. The system consists of 10 BullSequana XH3000 racks with a total of 768 processor nodes and 192 accelerator nodes, complemented by IBM SpectrumScale storage solutions. The processor nodes will be delivered in the third quarter of 2023, and the accelerator nodes are expected to be fully installed in the first half of 2024.
