The European Space Agency opened this week the new computing facility that was built with HPE.
The “SpaceHPC” attachment, called “the infrastructure of the appearances” designed to help the space industry in Europe “reduce the risks associated with data processing, modeling and simulation.”
Located in the Italian town of Frascati, 20 km outside Rome, it includes 34,000 cores of “the latest generation of AMD & Intel processors”. 108 Nvidia H100 GPU is also present, giving the 5 PETAFLOPS machine a raw performance potential.
This force will witness that the HPC space ranked about 210 in the current Best 500 menu One of the most powerful giant computers on the ground.
The machine uses Infiniband networks, 156 TB of RAM, including 3.6 PB of solid status storage.
Direct liquid cooling allowed it to achieve the effectiveness of energy use of “less than 1.09”. The device is also clouded in the heating system on the campus where it resides.
As usually with giant computers, Space HPC can be formed to run different work burdens. So the machine offers sections dedicated to public account tasks, and two other two sections benefit from H100s to run AI/ML work burden or other programs that need urgent.
ESA space safety program has already tested HPC Space to improve its ability to – think of – typical space weather. Among other things, it can improve future solar activity warnings that can pose a threat to orbit infrastructure or on Earth.
Despite the opening ceremony on Wednesday, the facility is still in its experimental phase until April.
“Planning for the broader access is after that, in the cooking mode to ensure optimal performance and user experience,” ESA He said.
However, Org is what is already considering expressing the time to take care of the device in a model you can find here. ®