Kontrax, in a collaboration with its partner Fujitsu, built a robust, high-performing, distributed server platform with in-built GPU acceleration on the initiative of the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (IICT) at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
The solution which Kontrax’s team implemented successfully includes 40 Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX2540 servers with NVIDIA® Tesla® V100 32GB GPUs. As a result the processing speed has increased tenfold, making research more productive. AI, HPC, data science and graphics have become accelerated. It provides a 24/7 continuous operation and guarantee the highest energy efficiency.
The new system supports a range of processor-intensive projects such as neural network planning, advanced natural language processing and molecular dynamics in drug research. The system is easily scalable so the IICT can expand the compute power as the Center of Excellence evolves.
‘The broader vision is to create labs for visualization, and the processing, analysis and storage of data with state-of-the-art workstations, however, first we needed to build the underlying distributed server architecture. By distributing 40 servers across the partnership – institutes of BAS and universities in Bulgaria, we can ensure every partner in the project has a slice of processing power,” explains Prof. Emanouil Atanassov, Head of Department of High Performance Computer Systems, Networks and Algorithms, IICT.
Kontrax, in a collaboration with its partner Fujitsu, built a robust, high-performing, distributed server platform with in-built GPU acceleration on the initiative of the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (IICT) at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
