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Airbus has boosted its high-performance computing (HPC) capacity for aircraft development to 1,200 Tflops by deploying a new generation of HP Performance Optimised Data centers (PODs) in Toulouse, France, and Hamburg, Germany.
New HP PODs with pre-integrated clusters of HP ProLiant server blades featuring the latest Intel processors are already enabling Airbus to increase its HPC availability while saving space and energy. Energy per Tflop has decreased by nearly another 50 percent compared with the existing POD solution also delivered by HP. Over the next five years, HP will enhance the capacity of the clusters with innovative technologies, as well as providing improved cooling and upgraded housing infrastructure.
“We are pleased to build on our supercomputing partnership with HP,” says Guus Dekkers, CIO of Airbus. “Over the next five years, HP will continue to enhance our PODs by boosting capacity and raising energy efficiency while providing increased availability, resilience and security. This will further support Airbus engineering teams in aircraft development.”
Each of Airbus’ 12-meter-long containerized HP PODs delivers the equivalent of nearly 500 square meters of data center space and contains all the elements of an HP Converged Infrastructure: blade servers, storage, networking, software and management as well as integrated power and cooling. The HP PODs, which comply with French and German security and environmental legislation as well as Airbus policies, can be easily upgraded or replaced with no additional energy provisioning, and no need for extra space on-site.
Delivered from HP’s Kutna Hora integration facility to their final destination on Airbus’ main industrial sites in Toulouse and Hamburg, the HP PODs have HPC clusters based on the latest Intel processors already integrated. HP’s Centre of Excellence for High Performance Computing in Grenoble, France, helped to optimize cluster performance and effectiveness, while HP Enterprise Services configured the new clusters to integrate rapidly and seamlessly into the Airbus IT environment.
“Organisations like Airbus need creative scenarios to cater for future business needs,” says Peter Ryan, senior vice president & general manager, HP Enterprise Group EMEA. “HP will continue to provide the newest, most powerful technology and operations to support Airbus’ HPC for the next five years.”
