The processors powering Apollo HPE server hardware offer features like unprecedented native DDR4 memory bandwidth, twelve memory lanes, and up to 112 cores in a two-socket system. This is ideal for HPC as a Service so that companies like Cadence can focus on customers instead of worrying about the data center aspects.” -Guy D’Hauwers, Sales Director, HPC & AI, atNorthĪtNorth is the first cloud provider to offer its customers like Cadence AI-ready HPC instances based upon the Intel Select Solutions for HPC & AI Converged Clusters featuring 2nd Generation Intel Xeon processors. We have been working with the best technologies on the market, using Intel Xeon processors to build state-of-the-art HPC. We have built high performance computing as a service from the ground up. The combination of processor speed and multiple memory channels reduce barriers often associated with memory-bound applications on different hardware platforms.
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According to atNorth and Cadence, the CFD software package runs significantly faster on the Intel® Xeon® Platinum 9200 processor HPC platform than on other atNorth instances. In turn, Cadence can optimize that cluster for their proprietary CFD application and ensure their end-customers have a tested solution for workloads in the cloud. Because atNorth Data Centers’ HPCaaS solutions are configurable down to the bare metal level, Cadence can configure every aspect of its dedicated cluster.
Additional Intel® technologies include SSDs and memory with Intel® Optane™ technology, and Intel Software and Performance Profiling tools.
Their CPU choice offers native DDR4 memory bandwidth, twelve memory lanes, and up to 112 cores in a two-socket system. Once deployed on an atNorth HPCaaS solution, Cadence’s next-generation CFD application will offer Cadence’s end-customers a holistic and turnkey solution for their workloads.Ĭadence’s FINE/Turbo is a CFD suite that provides an Integrated Environment for rotating and non-rotating flow analysis in external and internal turbomachinery applications.ĪtNorth’s choice of Intel® processors and Apollo HPE server hardware offers the performance characteristics to speed HPCaaS instances. The complexity of the application requires an elastic and extremely-performant HPC-in-the-Cloud solution upon which to develop and test their latest solution. ISVs like Cadence need isolated and fully-configurable HPCaaS clusters to enable their innovative CFD software. atNorth’s backend HPC infrastructure includes Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) Apollo server hardware powered by Intel® Select Solutions for HPC & AI Converged Clusters which features Intel® Xeon® Platinum 9200 processors with Intel® Deep Learning Boost (Intel® DL Boost) to accelerate CFD workloads. The Independent Software Vendor (ISV) chose atNorth’s’ hosted solutions because they offer several benefits that enable Cadence to optimize their CFD applications that require excellent scalability, end-to-end security, and configuration flexibility. Cadence’s innovative computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solution will help companies and researchers to design next-generation ships, aircraft, and cars that are faster, safer, and more fuel-efficient. A joint effort between Cadence and atNorth will deliver with an end-to-end, hosted high performance computing (HPC) solution for Cadence’s clients’ most challenging simulation and modeling workloads.