{"id":17882,"date":"2015-07-02T15:13:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T13:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/?p=17882"},"modified":"2015-07-02T15:13:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T13:13:39","slug":"amd-and-dell-support-bioinformatics-studies-at-university-of-warsaw-in-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/17882-amd-and-dell-support-bioinformatics-studies-at-university-of-warsaw-in-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"AMD<\/span> and Dell Support Bioinformatics Studies at University of Warsaw in Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"

SUNNYVALE<\/span>, Calif., July 2 \u2014<\/strong> AMD<\/span> today unvei\u00adled inno\u00adva\u00adti\u00adon in hete\u00adro\u00adge\u00adneous high per\u00adfor\u00admance com\u00adpu\u00adting (HPC<\/span>) by deli\u00adve\u00adring more than 1.5 peta\u00adFLOPS of AMD<\/span> Fire\u00adPro S9150<\/span> ser\u00adver GPU<\/span> per\u00adfor\u00admance for the Next Gene\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon Sequen\u00adcing Cent\u00adre (NGSC<\/span>) at the Cent\u00adre of New Tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgies, Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of War\u00adsaw in sup\u00adport of bio\u00adin\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtics rese\u00adarch rela\u00adted to next gene\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon sequen\u00adcing (NGS<\/span>) stu\u00addies. The new ORION<\/span> clus\u00adter fea\u00adtures 150 Dell PowerEdge R730<\/span> ser\u00advers<\/a> with two AMD<\/span> Fire\u00adPro S9150<\/span> ser\u00adver GPUs, for a total GPU<\/span> peak of 1.52 peta\u00adFLOPS sin\u00adgle pre\u00adcis\u00adi\u00adon and 0.76 peta\u00adFLOPS dou\u00adble pre\u00adcis\u00adi\u00adon per\u00adfor\u00admance. The ener\u00adgy-effi\u00adci\u00adent clus\u00adter enables high speed and effi\u00adci\u00adent cal\u00adcu\u00adla\u00adti\u00adons for geno\u00admic data, appli\u00adca\u00adble to a ran\u00adge of geno\u00admics and bio\u00adin\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtics stu\u00addies, using a fast and power effi\u00adci\u00adent Open\u00adCL imple\u00admen\u00adta\u00adti\u00adon for rese\u00adarch applications.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>We\u2019re com\u00admit\u00adted to buil\u00adding our HPC<\/span> lea\u00adder\u00adship posi\u00adti\u00adon in the indus\u00adtry as a fore\u00admost pro\u00advi\u00adder of com\u00adpu\u00adting appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons, tools and tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgies,\u201d said Sean Bur\u00adke, cor\u00adpo\u00adra\u00adte vice-pre\u00adsi\u00addent and gene\u00adral mana\u00adger, AMD<\/span> Pro\u00adfes\u00adsio\u00adnal Gra\u00adphics. \u201cThis instal\u00adla\u00adti\u00adon reaf\u00adfirms AMD<\/span>\u2019s lea\u00adding role in HPC<\/span> with the imple\u00admen\u00adta\u00adti\u00adon of the AMD<\/span> Fire\u00adPro S9150<\/span> ser\u00adver GPUs in this 1.5 peta\u00adFLOPS super\u00adcom\u00adpu\u00adter clus\u00adter. AMD<\/span> and Dell are enab\u00adling Open\u00adCL appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons for cri\u00adti\u00adcal sci\u00adence rese\u00adarch usa\u00adge for this clus\u00adter. AMD<\/span> is proud to col\u00adla\u00adbo\u00adra\u00adte with Dell and NGSC<\/span> to sup\u00adport such important life sci\u00adence and com\u00adpu\u00adter sci\u00adence research.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>We had excel\u00adlent coope\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon with Dell and AMD<\/span> to make this pro\u00adject hap\u00adpen in such a short time\u00adframe,\u201d said Dr. Krzy\u00adsz\u00adtof Ginal\u00adski, head of the Next Gene\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon Sequen\u00adcing Cent\u00adre and Labo\u00adra\u00adto\u00adry of Bio\u00adin\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtics and Sys\u00adtems Bio\u00adlo\u00adgy at the Cent\u00adre of New Tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgies, Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of War\u00adsaw. \u201cThe sta\u00adte-of-the-art tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgy and indus\u00adtry-lea\u00adding sys\u00adtems manage\u00adment capa\u00adbi\u00adli\u00adties in the Dell PowerEdge R730<\/span> ser\u00advers along with the AMD<\/span> Fire\u00adPro S9150<\/span> ser\u00adver gra\u00adphics deli\u00adver an extre\u00adme\u00adly powerful basis for the ORION<\/span> clus\u00adter and pro\u00advi\u00adde the com\u00adpu\u00adte capa\u00adbi\u00adli\u00adties we need for our rese\u00adarch. The lar\u00adge 16GB<\/span> of memo\u00adry of the AMD<\/span> Fire\u00adPro S9150<\/span> ser\u00adver gra\u00adphics allows us to run advan\u00adced bio\u00adin\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtics com\u00adpu\u00adta\u00adti\u00adons on one GPU<\/span> wit\u00adhout inter-GPU com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adti\u00adon resul\u00adting in very effi\u00adci\u00adent ope\u00adra\u00adti\u00adons. We have cho\u00adsen a mul\u00adti-GPU approach with two GPU<\/span> boards per ser\u00adver to enable cost- and ener\u00adgy-effi\u00adci\u00adent configuration.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Dell is pas\u00adsio\u00adna\u00adte about the HPC<\/span> mar\u00adket and com\u00admit\u00adted to powe\u00adring the revo\u00adlu\u00adtio\u00adna\u00adry dis\u00adco\u00adveries being made by top rese\u00adarch orga\u00adniza\u00adti\u00adons and enter\u00adpri\u00adse around the world,\u201d said Ravi Pen\u00adde\u00adkan\u00adti, vice pre\u00adsi\u00addent, pro\u00adduct manage\u00adment, Dell Ser\u00adver Solu\u00adti\u00adons. \u201cTog\u00ade\u00adther, Dell and AMD<\/span> have rea\u00adched a new level with the NGSC<\/span> pro\u00adject, reve\u00adal\u00ading the true power of the Dell PowerEdge R730<\/span> with AMD<\/span> Fire\u00adPro S9150<\/span> GPUs. The\u00adre is no doubt that our joint NGSC<\/span> pro\u00adject deli\u00advers top-tier per\u00adfor\u00admance for cri\u00adti\u00adcal HPC<\/span> appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons, while also pro\u00advi\u00adding major ener\u00adgy efficiencies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>We are proud that we had oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty to build this HPC<\/span> clus\u00adter for NGSC<\/span>,\u201d said Micha\u0142 Bie\u0144\u00adkow\u00adski, chief exe\u00adcu\u00adti\u00adve offi\u00adcer at Slash sp. z o. o. \u201cOur strong coope\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon with Dell and AMD<\/span> gave us the abili\u00adty to deli\u00adver an effec\u00adti\u00adve solu\u00adti\u00adon in a very short time. We ente\u00adred the HPC<\/span> mar\u00adket seve\u00adral years ago offe\u00adring high per\u00adfor\u00admance solu\u00adti\u00adons in Poland\u2019s edu\u00adca\u00adti\u00adon field. Our goal is to build fast, relia\u00adble and ener\u00adgy-saving data cen\u00adter systems.\u201d<\/p>\n

NGSC<\/span> at the Cent\u00adre of New Tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgies, Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of War\u00adsaw, loca\u00adted in War\u00adsaw, Pol\u00adand, is a rese\u00adarch faci\u00adli\u00adty for top-of-the-line geno\u00admics and bio\u00adin\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtics stu\u00addies in bio\u00adlo\u00adgy, medi\u00adci\u00adne, dia\u00adgno\u00adstics and the\u00adra\u00adpy. The ORION<\/span> clus\u00adter was desi\u00adgned and built for sto\u00adring and pro\u00adces\u00adsing of huge amount of data gene\u00adra\u00adted by the sequen\u00adcers available in the Cent\u00adre. NGSC<\/span> con\u00adducts a varie\u00adty of geno\u00admics pro\u00adjects in num\u00ade\u00adrous col\u00adla\u00adbo\u00adra\u00adti\u00adons by pro\u00advi\u00adding NGS<\/span> tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgy to aca\u00adde\u00admia and indus\u00adtry. Rese\u00adar\u00adches from around the world are using this faci\u00adli\u00adty to per\u00adform NGS<\/span> (e.g. geno\u00admic, meta\u00adge\u00adno\u00admic, tran\u00adscrip\u00adto\u00admic, epi\u00adge\u00adne\u00adtic) expe\u00adri\u00adments that help them make fasci\u00adna\u00adting rese\u00adarch dis\u00adco\u00adveries. Many of bio\u00adin\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtics stu\u00addies con\u00adduc\u00adted at NGSC<\/span> requi\u00adre lar\u00adge com\u00adpu\u00adta\u00adtio\u00adnal power, which is deli\u00adver\u00aded by the ORION<\/span> cluster.<\/p>\n

About AMD<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

AMD<\/span> designs and inte\u00adgra\u00adtes tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgy that powers mil\u00adli\u00adons of intel\u00adli\u00adgent devices, inclu\u00adding per\u00adso\u00adnal com\u00adpu\u00adters, tablets, game con\u00adso\u00adles and cloud ser\u00advers that defi\u00adne the new era of sur\u00adround com\u00adpu\u00adting. AMD<\/span> solu\u00adti\u00adons enable peo\u00adp\u00adle ever\u00ady\u00adwhe\u00adre to rea\u00adli\u00adze the full poten\u00adti\u00adal of their favo\u00adri\u00adte devices and appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons to push the boun\u00adda\u00adries of what is pos\u00adsi\u00adble. For more infor\u00adma\u00adti\u00adon, visit www.amd.com.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: AMD<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SUNNYVALE<\/span>, Calif., July 2 \u2014 AMD<\/span> today unvei\u00adled inno\u00adva\u00adti\u00adon in hete\u00adro\u00adge\u00adneous high per\u00adfor\u00admance com\u00adpu\u00adting (HPC<\/span>) by deli\u00adve\u00adring more than 1.5 peta\u00adFLOPS of AMD<\/span> Fire\u00adPro S9150<\/span> ser\u00adver GPU<\/span> per\u00adfor\u00admance for the Next Gene\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon Sequen\u00adcing Cent\u00adre (NGSC<\/span>) at the Cent\u00adre of New Tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgies, Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of War\u00adsaw in sup\u00adport of bio\u00adin\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtics rese\u00adarch rela\u00adted to next gene\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon sequen\u00adcing (NGS<\/span>) stu\u00addies. The new ORION<\/span> clus\u00adter fea\u00adtures 150 Dell PowerEdge R730<\/span> ser\u00advers with two AMD<\/span> Fire\u00adPro S9150<\/span> ser\u00adver GPUs, for a total GPU<\/span> peak of 1.52 peta\u00adFLOPS sin\u00adgle pre\u00adcis\u00adi\u00adon and 0.76 peta\u00adFLOPS dou\u00adble pre\u00adcis\u00adi\u00adon per\u00adfor\u00admance. (\u2026) Wei\u00adter\u00adle\u00adsen \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pressemitteilungen","entry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17883,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17882\/revisions\/17883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}