Huawei announced that one of the largest libraries in the world, Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, has selected its high-performance computing (HPC) solution to build massive computing platform.
Huawei says that its HPC solution uses extraordinary high-density FusionServer servers, and employs high-speed InfiniBand (IB) for computing networks. The HPC clusters can achieve a theoretical peak speed of 118 Tera floating point operations per second (TFLOPS) while the entire solution will provide 288 TB in storage capacity for concurrent file systems that would support the applications requiring massive computing.
For the purpose of educational R&D in multiple scientific fields, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina will join hands to build a new HPC cluster with Huawei and the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology of Egypt. The HPC cluster is meant to be deployed for specialized applications that require immense mathematical calculations, such as bioinformatics, data mining, physics simulation, weather forecast, drilling for oil and groundwater, and cloud computing. With a peak performance reaching 118 TFLOPS, a new level of creativity will be inspired and new horizons are arising in the research domain.
According to the company, the power saving of the high-density X6800 servers, low latency and high bandwidth of the IB computing network, and the other superior attributes of the devices comprising the HPC solution as well as the requirement of one-third fewer cabinets than that of competitors and optimizations to CPU selections delivered 7% better overall system efficiency compared to the next-leading offering helped Bibliotheca Alexandrina select Huawei.
