HPE & Intel open 3rd CoE in India to help users experience HPC through 'As-a-Service' model

BANGALORE, INDIA: After Houston, Texas, and Grenoble, France, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Intel has announced the launch of its third Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Bangalore that will help demonstrate High Performance Computing (HPC)-as-a-service for customers. Customers also can access this infrastructure remotely through a cloud-driven model that can be replicated in their datacenters.

The HPC-as-a-service model allows customers to request computing power online through a self-service portal where the inventory of configurable infrastructure is available for customers to select and form compute clusters to run their applications.

“There is a growing need amongst research and academic institutions for high levels of computational power to process large volumes of data, solve highly complex mathematical problems, and repeat calculations for multiplicative situations. The CoE provides a great opportunity to engage with our customers and better understand their HPC requirements,” said Vikram K, Director, Servers, HPE India.

Additionally, HPC will also play a key role in the Indian Government’s proposed National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), which aims to create a grid of seventy plus supercomputers connecting various academic and research institutions across the country to help develop applications of national relevance.

“Enterprises large and small are grappling with the growing challenges of increased model complexity and data sizes. Combining the advanced Intel technology and HPE’s systems and services, the COE will provide customers the opportunity to validate their applications on latest HPC Technologies offered under HPE’s portfolio and achieve optimized system performance & scale – while maintaining ease of programming through open standards,” said Ravi Gupta, Regional Manager, SAARC, HPE Alliance, Intel.

At the HPE-Intel CoE, customers can access the latest purpose built HPE Apollo platforms and solutions from HPE together with technologies from Intel to validate their application stacks on industry leading infrastructure. Customers will be able to access HPE HPC engineering experts to address their most complex parallel processing challenges. The CoE will facilitate the on-boarding and training of new users and developers and enable experienced developers to hone their ability to leverage parallelism and vectorization capabilities in the latest Intel CPUs.

HPE and Intel will initially collaborate with partners such as UberCloud at the HPE-Intel CoE to showcase reference architectures for industry solutions and will further look to expand the partner base throughout 2017.

The CoE’s HPC infrastructure leverages all elements of Intel’s Scalable System Framework and is based on the HPE Apollo 2000 and 6000 server platforms that are purpose built for HPC and deliver extreme performance, scale and efficiency. These platforms are uniquely configured to optimize compute density and performance and contain the latest generation Intel Xeon processors, Intel Xeon Phi x200 processors, and Intel Omni-Path interconnect technology. The storage infrastructure is provisioned through HPE Apollo 4520 systems that are integrated with the Intel Enterprise Edition of Lustre.