BASF to Build Supercomputer for Chemical Research with HP

Seeking to build one of the world’s largest supercomputers for industrial chemical research, BASF is partnering with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HP) to develop a version of HP’s HPE Apollo 6000 system that will be used to digitize the German firm’s global research efforts, BASF announced March 17.

“The new super computer will promote the application and development of complex modelling and simulation approaches, opening up entirely new avenues for our research at BASF,” the chairman of BASF’s board of executive directors and chief technology officer, Dr. Martin Brudermueller, said in a statement.

BASF said the system will enable researchers to quickly find solutions to complex queries, bringing the amount of time needed to find answers down from months to days in all areas of the company’s research. Allowing researchers to conduct virtual experiments, the company hopes the technology will reduce time to market and costs.

“In today’s 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 of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, in BASF’s release. “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.”

The supercomputer, containing several hundred computer nodes, leverage HP’s Apollo systems.

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