San diego supercomputer center selects dell technologies to power "expanse" system

Dell technologies has been selected to power the next-generation supercomputer at the san diego supercomputer center (sdsc), expected to deploy in mid-2020. sdsc was awarded a five-year, $10 million grant from the national science foundation (nsf) to develop and deploy the new expanse system. designed to support diverse computation and data-intensive workloads, expanse will be comprised of 728 dual-socket dell emc poweredge c6525 servers [1] with 2nd gen amd epyc™ processors connected with mellanox® hdr infiniband. with the compute-dense poweredge c6525, including next-generation amd epyc processors nvidia® gpus, expanse is projected to have a peak performance of up to five petaflops. to match what a five petaflops system can do in just one second, one would have to perform one calculation every second for more than 158 million years. this also nearly doubles the performance of sdsc's current comet system, allowing sdsc to support more researchers and projects. the new supercomputer will be a key resource within the nsf's extreme science and engineering discovery environment [2] (xsede), which comprises the most advanced collection of integrated digital resources and services in the world. more details about the program will be available this week at the sdsc display at the international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis (sc19 [3]) in denver, colorado.
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