In this video, HPE showcases their new supercomputer at BASF.

BASFs strategic goal is to decisively take advantage of the enormous opportunities that digitalization offers along the entire value chain. In doing so, research and development play a key role when it comes to further increasing innovative strength and competitiveness by using new technologies. With 1.75 petaflops, our supercomputer QURIOSITY offers around 10 times the computing power that BASF currently has dedicated to scientific computing. In the ranking of the 500 largest computing systems in the world, the BASF supercomputer is currently number 65.

The new system will make it possible to answer complex questions and reduce the time required to obtain results from several months to days across all research areas. As part of BASFs digitalization strategy, the company plans to significantly expand its capabilities to run virtual experiments with the supercomputer. It will help BASF reduce time to market and costs by, for example, simulating processes on catalyst surfaces more precisely or accelerating the design of new polymers with pre-defined properties.

In todays data-driven economy, high performance computing plays a pivotal role in driving advances in space exploration, biology and artificial intelligence, said Meg Whitman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. We expect this supercomputer to help BASF perform prodigious calculations at lightning fast speeds, resulting in a broad range of innovations to solve new problems and advance our world.

With the help of IntelXeonprocessors, high-bandwidth, low-latency IntelOmni-Path Fabric and HPE management software, the supercomputer acts as a single system with an effective performance of more than 1 Petaflop (1 Petaflop equals one quadrillion floating point operations per second). With this system architecture, a multitude of nodes can work simultaneously on highly complex tasks, dramatically reducing the processing time.

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