Wageningen University & Research (WUR) in the Netherlands has upgraded its Anunna supercomputer.
The upgrade has enabled Anunna to handle more data and optimized the high-performance computing (HPC) system to handle artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
The specifications of the upgrade have not been shared, but it has been enabled by €2.1 million ($2.3m) of investment and has improved the “graphical computing power” of the supercomputer. The new hardware will also be water-cooled, instead of liquid-cooled, to improve energy efficiency. The updated system will be available for use from October 2023.
Prior to the upgrade, Anunna offered 13 Teraflops of computational power made up of 2,000 cores, four Nvidia Tesla V10 GPUs, and one petabyte of parallel storage. The system’s CPUs are Intel Xeon Gold processors.
Alexander van Ittersum, product owner of computer & platform solutions and research IT solutions at WUR, said of the system: “There was no longer enough storage capacity. And we are moving towards updated and more graphical computing power so that AI applications can find a place on the cluster much better.”
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