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U.S.A NREL choose HPE to make Kestrel supercomputer with NVIDIA
According to the latest report, the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has decided to keep HP’s enterprise business brand Hewlett-Packard (HPE) to build the third-generation high-performance computing system (HPC). ), named Kestral.
Kestrel, distributed in the American continent, known for its keen eyesight. This supercomputer will be used in the R&D project of the US Department of Energy to provide new energy solutions and so on.
According to the plan, the construction of the new system will start in the autumn of 2022, and the location will be located at NREL’s energy system integration facility data center. During the transition period, this supercomputer will be a supplement to the current Eagle supercomputer.
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After completion in 2023, Kestrel will have five times the speed and scale of Eagle, which can accelerate research on improving energy efficiency and renewable energy. Officials said that after the completion of the Kestrel supercomputer, it will have 44 PFLOPS of computing power.
Moreover, the Kestrel supercomputer of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory of the United States will advance the large-scale simulation of materials science, continuum mechanics, and future energy systems in the future. Currently, artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies are promoting innovation and research in these fields. The research work will use simulation and sensor data to conduct physics research.
The system will also be equipped with an HPE Slingshot Ethernet structure, specifically designed for data-intensive computing and AI workloads, with higher connection speed and congestion control. In terms of storage, HPE’s Cray ClusterStor E1000 system was used, with a capacity of 75 PB. With the completion of Kestrel, NREL will continue to promote the improvement of energy efficiency and the progress of renewable energy in the future.