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HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING


Tech focus: Servers


ROBERT ROE TAKES A LOOK AT THE SERVER OPTIONS THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO SCIENTISTS USING HPC AS A TOOL FOR RESEARCH


Understanding how different density servers with different configurations of HPC hardware can benefit an organisation based on the applications they are running is crucial to delivering a highly performant and efficient HPC infrastructure. Server and infrastructure selection is one of the driving factors behind energy efficiency and compute density, and also impacts total cost of ownership over the lifetime of the HPC system. By understanding the


collection of applications an organisation needs to run on their system and using that as the baseline for decisions around compute density, power consumption and underlying infrastructure, such as cooling, can help organisations to maximise efficiency. An underperforming cluster will not deliver results fast enough, but equally, overloading a server with expensive hardware that is not


12 Scientific Computing World Summer 2021


the best choice to accelerate a specific set of applications increases costs and power consumption. This can lead to less power-efficient systems, which increases costs over the lifecycle of the system. Ultimately, the foundation


for successful HPC technology adoption begins with well-defined HPC architecture. Depending on your organisation’s workloads and computing goals, different HPC system designs and supporting


resources are available to help your organisation achieve productivity gains and scalable performance.


Other products Based on Alibaba Cloud infrastructure, Alibaba Cloud Elastic High Performance Computing (E-HPC) is an end- to-end public cloud service. E-HPC provides individual users, education and research institutions, and public institutions with a fast, elastic and secure cloud compute


platform that interconnects with Alibaba Cloud products. Amax offers an extensive


portfolio of reference systems optimised for performance, density and efficiency. Its systems enable you to configure and customise compute, storage, network, power and software to meet any scale of application. It offers a diverse selection of technology partners to design high-performance servers and rack-scale solutions, including GPU-based and application-


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