Eviden wins $100 million contract in India

With NCMRWF

It will build two new supercomputers dedicated to weather modeling and climate research for IITM and NCMRWF.

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Evident, the business of Atos leader in advanced computing announces that it has won a $100 million contract with NCMRWF, in the name of Ministry of Earth Sciences of India, to build two new supercomputers dedicated to weather modeling and climate research for the IITM and the NCMRWF.

These systems, based on BullSequana XH2000 by Eviden, will have a combined power capacity of up to 21,3 petaflops and will rely on Eviden's patented Direct Liquid Cooling technology to cool the system with warm water. The overall solution will leverage artificial intelligence capabilities using NVIDIA DGX A100.

Located in Noida, the NCMRWF supercomputer will have a computing capacity of 8.3 petaflop for weather and climate modeling, to support advanced numerical meteorological research across India. This platform will bring together 2.100 CPU nodes with AMD EPYCTM 7643 processors, 18 GPU nodes using NVIDIA A100 accelerators, Mellanox InfiniBand HDR interconnect technology (200 Gbps) and high-performance memory provided by Micron. The NCMRWF supercomputer will also have 2 PB all-flash and 20 PB of disk-based EXAScaler ES400NVX2 DDN parallel file system storage.

The supercomputer dedicated to Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM, Pune) will provide 13 petaflops of power for atmosphere and climate research. It will integrate 3.000 CPU nodes using AMD EPYCTM 7643 processors and 26 GPU nodes through four NVIDIA A100 accelerators. The system will benefit from Mellanox InfiniBand HDR (200 Gbps) interconnect technology, 3 PB all-flash and 29 PB of EXAScaler ES400NVX2 disk-based DDN storage and high-tech Micron memory.

As part of the contract, data centers at both sites will also be upgraded.

El Dr. M. Ravichandran, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, said: “Weather and climate research require enormous computing power. This partnership with the Atos group will increase our current ability to improve the resolution and accuracy of weather forecasts. We hope that the Atos group will help us achieve this goal.”

Jean-Philippe Poirault, CEO of Big Data and Security at Eviden, Atos group highlighted: “We are honored to support, through this prestigious contract, the IITM and the NCMRWF, on behalf of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, in their mission to continually improve meteorological modeling and climate research. With very dynamic growth and a high-quality technological ecosystem, India is a key country for the HPC industry, positioning itself as a market leader. The expertise of IITM and NCMRWF combined with Eviden’s experience in delivering the most powerful HPC systems designed for weather modeling will provide a unique system ready to tackle the toughest climate research challenges.”