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Verne Global announced Volkswagen is moving more than 1 MW of high performance
computing applications to the company’s datacenter in Iceland. The company will
take advantage of Verne Global’s hybrid data center approach – with variable
resiliency and flexible density – to support HPC applications in its continuous
quest to develop cutting-edge cars and automotive technology.
"The
hybrid data center solution of Verne Global gives us quick and easy capacity
for our High-Performance Computing applications,” says Harald Berg, Head of IT
Tools, Network and Data Center in the Volkswagen Group. “We were particularly
impressed by the modular design of the data center that allows us to respond to
increasing demands in a flexible manner.”
Volkswagen
is committed to developing new processes and applications for the modern
“digital factory” of today’s automotive industry. As more and more real-life
factory operations become virtualized, Volkswagen is utilizing HPC applications
for everything from shortening design cycles, traffic optimization, developing
and improving the connected car and more.
To
drive innovation in its manufacturing process, Volkswagen is taking advantage
of Verne Global’s unique, hybrid data center approach. Verne Global is the data
center industry’s only developer offering the ability to scale resiliency and
density of both of its solutions, powerDIRECT and powerADVANCE. Companies, like
Volkswagen, can now have greater flexibility to support their individual
computing needs. While both solutions deliver highly optimized data center
infrastructure, powerDIRECT enables IT organizations to meet the increasing
demand for high and ultra-high density applications. powerADVANCE is a
traditional Tier III data center solution with the highest possible
specification enterprise-ready data center environment.
"Our
expertise delivering data center solutions for discrete manufacturing allow
companies such as those in the automotive sector to do more compute for less,”
said Jeff Monroe, CEO of Verne Global. “We see our unique offering as the
future of data center solutions and a means to support companies, like
Volkswagen, as they drive towards innovation, forward-thinking design and
operational efficiency.”
In
this video from the HPC User Forum in Tucson, Jorge L. Balcells from Verne
Global presents: Verne Global Datacenters for Forward Thinkers.
The CloudLightning Project in Europe has published preliminary results from a survey on Barriers to Using HPC in the Cloud.
"Cloud
computing is transforming the utilization and efficiency of IT infrastructures
across all sectors. Historically, cloud computing has not been used for high
performance computing (HPC) to the same degree as other use cases for a number
of reasons. This executive briefing is a preliminary report of a larger study
on demand-side barriers and drivers of cloud computing adoption for HPC. A more
comprehensive report and analysis will be published later in 2016. From June to
August 2016, the CloudLightning project surveyed over 170 HPC discrete end
users worldwide in the academic, commercial and government sectors on their HPC
use, perceived drivers and barriers to using cloud computing, and uses of cloud
computing for HPC."
As
shown in Figure 2, trust in cloud computing would appear to be a significant
barrier to adopting cloud computing for HPC workloads. Data management concerns
dominate the responses. This is not surprising given the large number of
bio-science and university and academic respondents within the sample. The main
technical barriers relate to communication speeds. This reflects a perceived
lack of cloud infrastructure capable of meeting the communications and I/O
requirements of high-end technical computing. Government policy is again ranked
low it would seem it is neither a driver nor a barrier. Unsurprisingly
availability and capital expenditure are not barriers reflecting their positive
impact on adoption.
According
to the report, there is unlikely to be a full shift of high performance
computing workloads to the cloud in the short term however there is evidence of
demand to meet the capacity limitations of internal infrastructures including
use cases for testing the viability of the cloud or specific software for
various use cases. This is consistent with previous research.
"Funded
by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Program for Research and Innovation,
CloudLightning brings together eight project partners from five countries
across Europe. The project proposes to create a new way of provisioning
heterogeneous cloud resources to deliver services, specified by the user, using
a bespoke service description language. Our goal is to address energy
inefficiencies particularly in the use of resources and consequently to deliver
savings to the cloud provider and the cloud consumer in terms of reduced power
consumption and improved service delivery, with hyperscale systems particularly
in mind."
TAIPEI,
Taiwan, Sept. 21 — TYAN, an industry-leading server platform design
manufacturer and subsidiary of MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation,
announces support and availability of the NVIDIA Tesla P100, P40 and P4
GPU accelerators with the new NVIDIA Pascal architecture. Incorporating
NVIDIA’s state-of-the-art technologies allows TYAN to offer the
exceptional performance and data-intensive applications features to HPC
users.
“Real-time,
intelligent applications are transforming our world, thus our customers need an
efficient compute platform to deliver responsive and cost-effective AI,” said
Danny Hsu, Vice President of MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation’s TYAN
Business Unit. “TYAN is pleased to work with NVIDIA to market FT77C-B7079 and
TA80-B7071 servers with P100, P40 and P4 to market. The TYAN NVIDIA-based
server platforms allow hyper-scale customers to deploy accurate, responsive AI
solutions, and to reduce inference latency up to 45x. The high throughput and
best in class efficiency of Pascal GPUs make it possible to process exploding
volumes of data to offer cost effective, accurate AI applications.”
“The
NVIDIA Pascal architecture is the computing engine for modern data centers.
Powered by Pascal, Tesla GPUs offer massive leaps in performance and efficiency
required by the ever increasing demand of AI applications,” said Roy Kim, Tesla
Product Lead at NVIDIA. “We’re partnering with TYAN to deliver the accelerated
solutions customers need to deploy HPC applications and AI services.”
TYAN
HPC platforms with support for NVIDIA Tesla P100, P40, P4
4U/8
GPGPU FT77C-B7079 – Support up to 2x Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4 (Broadwell-EP)
processors, 24x DDR4 DIMM slots, 1x PCI-E x8 mezzanine slot for high-speed I/O
option, 10x 3.5″/2.5″ hot-swap SATA 6Gb/s HDDs/SSDs, dual-port 10GbE/GbE LOM,
and (2+1) 3,200W redundant power supplies with 80-Plus Platinum rated.
2U/4
GPGPU TA80-B7071 – Support up to 2x Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4 (Broadwell-EP)
processors, 16x DDR4 DIMM slots, 1x PCI-E x8 slot for high-speed I/O option, 8x
2.5″ hot-swap SAS or SATA 6Gb/s plus 2x 2.5″ internal SATA 6Gb/s HDDs/SSDs,
dual-port 10GbE/GbE LOM, and (1+1) 1,600W redundant power supplies with 80-Plus
Platinum rated.
About
TYAN
TYAN,
a leading server brand of MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation under the
MiTAC Holdings Corporation (TSE:3706), designs, manufactures and markets advanced
x86 and x86-64 server/workstation board and system products. The products are
sold to OEMs, VARs, System Integrators and Resellers worldwide for a wide range
of applications. TYAN enable customers to be technology leaders by providing
scalable, highly-integrated and reliable products such as appliances for cloud
service providers (CSP) and high-performance computing and server/workstation
used in CAD, DCC, E&P and HPC markets. For more information, visit MiTAC
Holdings Corporation’s website at http://www.mic-holdings.com or TYAN’s website at http://www.tyan.com
