Yorkshire Building Society (YBS)
“We need to achieve as many
gigaFLOPS as possible while using
very little power. With HP Moonshot
we get twice as many gigaFLOPS per
watt as traditional servers. HP
Moonshot has opened up a whole new
perspective on how we run our
quantum Monte Carlo simulations.”
– Anthony Scemama, Research Engineer and HPC Scientist,
Centre National de la Recherche Scientique
The world-renowned research organization at Universit Paul
Sabatier needed an energy-eicient supercomputing
environment to run highly complex quantum Monte Carlo
simulations. By running their software code on the HP
Moonshot System, university researchers could produce twice
as many gigaFLOPS per watt as traditional Dell rack servers.
HP Moonshot also produced desired Monte Carlo results in ve
times less space than required by the Dell servers. Providing
an ideal balance of performance and eiciency, HP Moonshot
met the university’s objectives to save energy and money.
Case study
Université Paul Sabatier
saves space and energy
with HP Moonshot
Researchers explore the future of complex quantum
chemistry in a green micro-supercomputer environment
Industry
Academic research
Objective
Run highly complex quantum Monte Carlo
simulations on low-energy consumption compute
infrastructure that provides results comparable
to traditional high-performance computing
infrastructure
Approach
Deploy HP Moonshot System with HP ProLiant m350
Servers
IT matters
• Produced twice as many gigaFLOPS per watt as
traditional servers
• Delivered desired results in 4.3U compared to
17.2U of traditional servers
• Completed 7,200 quantum Monte Carlo blocks 17.2
times faster than traditional servers
Business matters
• Reduced data center space and energy costs
• Gained new perspectives on how to run quantum
Monte Carlo simulations
• Set the stage for bring highly energy-eicient
software code into the commercial marketplace