The new Hungarian supercomputer Komondor, will soon arrive

The new Hungarian supercomputer Komondor, will soon arrive

Komondor is expected to arrive at the Supercomputer Centre in late 2021, and will be available to the users in the spring of 2022. Altogether, Komondor’s partitions will provide ten times the existing HPC capacity, 5 petaflopsto our users.

As regards architecture, approximately 80% of this capacity will be provided by the GPUaccelerated partition, but the system will also include a separate, purely CPU-based partition, as well as dedicated artificial intelligence (AI) and Big Data partitions. The system will be equipped with a multi-level storage system of more than 10 petabytes.

This supercomputer will use an extremely advanced and energy-efficient technology and thus will have a power demand of little more than 300 kW despite its huge computing performance.

The machine will use an especially environmentally-friendly solution for cooling – the so-called hot-water cooling technology –, which enables the recovery of the waste heat generated by the machine, as well as a highly energy-efficient passive cooling.

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The system is composed of the following components:

  • „CPU only” partition
    • 140 nodes, each with 2 x 64-core AMD EPYC™ 7763 (Milan) CPU and 256 GB RAM (a total of 17920 cores), 200Gb/s Slingshot interconnect
    • Performance: 0,7 petaflops (Rmax)
  • „GPU partition” partíció
    • 50 nodes, each with 1 x 64-core AMD EPYC™ 7763 (Milan) CPU and 256 GB RAM and 4 x NVIDIA A100 GPU (a total of 200 GPUs), 2x200Gb/s Slingshot interconnect
    • Performance: 4 petaflops (Rmax)
  • „Artificial Intelligence (AI) partition
    • 2 nodes (HPE Apollo 6500 Gen10 Plus), each with 2 x 64-core AMD EPYC™ 7763 (Milan) CPU and 512 GB RAM and 8 db NVIDIA A100 GPU (a total of 16 GPUs), 2x200Gb/s Slingshot interconnect
    • Performance: 0,3 petaflops (Rmax)
  • Big Data (Data Analytics) partition
    • 1 node (SMP/NUMA), 12 x 18-core Intel® Xeon® Gold 6254 CPU (a total of 216 cores) and 9 TB RAM, 2 TB SSD, 2x200Gb/s Slingshot interconnect
    • Performance: 21 teraflops (Rmax)
  • Storage
    • 3 level integrated data storage with a 400 TB ultrafast storage unit for the workflow area (300 gByte/s), a 1,5 PB fast storage unit for short-term storage, and a 10 PB long-term archiving system

More than 500 people participated in the naming of the new HPC infrastructure. Votes could be submitted for the options listed on the website hpc.kifu.hu. The winning candidate is the designation of a famous Hungarian dog breed, Komondor; the names Attila and Cerebellum took the second and the third place, respectively.

According to the predictions, Komondor will debut at around position No.60 on the TOP500 ranking in the June 2022 update of the list.