Microway Supplies Custom NVIDIA DGX POD-Based AI Supercomputer to Milwaukee School of Engineering

September 23, 2019

PLYMOUTH, Mass, September 23, 2019 – Microway, a leading provider of computational clusters, servers, and workstations for AI and HPC applications, announces it supplied Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) with an NVIDIA DGX POD-based supercomputer for education and applied research. This supercomputer forms the centerpiece of the university’s new computer science program and will support an expansion of deep learning and AI education designed to permeate across the institution. On September 13, 2019, MSOE hosted a ribbon-cutting to showcase the new Dwight and Dian Diercks Computational Science Hall and the new cluster, which will be used as part of MSOE’s expanded computer science education programming, applied research, and high-performance computing (HPC).

DGX POD is a reference architecture that provides a blueprint for designing large-scale data center infrastructure that can support modern artificial intelligence (AI) development. It is based on the NVIDIA DGX SATURNV AI supercomputer, which powers internal NVIDIA AI research and development used in autonomous vehicles, robotics, graphics, HPC, and other domains.

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As an experienced cluster integrator and NVIDIA Partner Network Elite DGX partner, Microway’s role was essential to delivering a complete solution that was operational on day one. Microway experts performed a careful system, storage, and network architecture design and design review with MSOE IT personnel and NVIDIA solutions architects to meet MSOE’s specific AI education and computer science needs.

“ROSIE:” A Centerpiece for AI on the MSOE Campus

The cluster design includes three racks of DGX servers, high-speed storage, 100G networking, and management servers, along with NVIDIA NGC deep learning containers and the NVIDIA DGX Software stack, deployed and managed with NVIDIA DeepOps. It features three NVIDIA DGX-1 AI systems with NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPU accelerators; twenty Microway NumberSmasher Xeon + NVIDIA T4 GPU teaching compute nodes; and access to NGC, which

provides an online registry of software stacks optimized for deep learning, machine learning and HPC applications, as well as pre-trained models and model training scripts. Also included in the deployment are high-performance storage arrays and a larger general-purpose storage pool from storage partner NetApp.

Microway’s design and integration experts worked closely with the MSOE team to ensure the custom DGX POD-based configuration met user needs. Microway delivered and installed the cluster fully integrated and ready-to-run after many weeks of intensive integration and stress testing were performed at Microway’s facility. Thorough testing ensured not only system functionality/stability, but also performance, with analysis of GPU throughput, local NVMe cache throughput, and network storage throughput. The teams worked together to customize storage, networking, and cluster software.

Revolutionary Deployment for Classroom Computer Science and AI Instruction

Unlike many university programs in which students’ access to supercomputers is usually limited to graduate students in computer labs, this configuration gives undergraduate students at MSOE supercomputer access in the classroom, enabling training of the next AI workforce. Traditional supercomputers require that users be familiar with command line interfaces and workload managers. The DeepOps install Microway has provided to MSOE allows a student to access the “ROSIE” cluster in their web browser and start a DGX-1 or NVIDIA T4 GPU deep learning session with the click of a button.

“We are extremely pleased by the opportunity to work with NVIDIA and MSOE on this significant new education and applied research facility,” said Eliot Eshelman, VP of Strategic Accounts and HPC Initiatives at Microway. “Microway’s expertise, combined with NVIDIA’s DGX POD architecture, enabled us to deliver a new type of cluster that melds the best of HPC with the latest developments in deep learning. In addition to enabling new research, this cluster simplifies student usage for studies of data analytics, AI, and computer science.”

About Microway, Inc.

Microway builds solutions for the intersection of AI and HPC. These include supercomputers, clusters, servers and quiet workstations designed for bleeding-edge computational performance. These products serve demanding users in the enterprise, government, and academia.


Source: Microway 

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