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The success of this project and recognition through the Global HPC Wire Award is testament to the outstanding work being delivered by the whole team across ARCCA , Logicalis and Lenovo .
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For the LIGO project , led by Professor Stephen Fairhurst , Lenovo provided 75 Lenovo ThinkSystem SR645 servers ahead of LIGO ’ s fourth two-year gravitational wave detection run . The new solution doubles the compute performance available to researchers and exceeds initial performance benchmarks by ~ 46 %, allowing researchers to process detection events and share data faster . The LIGO project won the HPCwire Readers ’ Award for ‘ Best Use of HPC For Scientific Research ’.
A second research group at Cardiff University studying star formation , led by Dr . Ana Duarte Cabral , Royal Society University Research Fellow , is to use 15 Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 servers with two Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 servers for storage . With the system funded by the Royal Society , the group ’ s research focuses on the creation of stars in spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way , requiring computationally demanding simulations of full galaxies .
“ Supported by Lenovo ThinkSystem technology , ARCCA can now deliver even more computing power to fuel hugely important projects such as LIGO and the Royal Society ’ s star formation study , as well as research across a wide range of other scientific fields .”
Professor Martyn Guest from Advanced Research Computing , Cardiff University , said : “ To help the LIGO and star-formation research teams achieve their objectives , we had to move fast , as the funding for both projects was time-sensitive .
“ We were working to extremely tight funding deadlines , and while other vendors quoted us nine-month lead times for delivery , Lenovo and Logicalis truly understood the urgency . They never stopped pushing to help us complete the projects on time and within budget .”
Andy Griffiths , Business Unit Director at Logicalis UK & I , added : “ Advanced workloads and technologies are now driving exciting focus around High Performance Computing for Logicalis . As we continue to invest in specialist HPC skills and capabilities , we are delighted
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Ian Jeffs , General Country Manager , UK & I , at Lenovo , said : “ The LIGO project is a prime example of how supercomputing can broaden humanity ’ s understanding , and Lenovo is proud to be involved in this globally important research , enabling scientists to share their discoveries faster .
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