ATOS :Atos to boost Dutch research at SURFsara with first Bull sequana supercomputer installed
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* 10 times more energy-efficient and 10 times denser than previous system
* Fully complies with customers' sustainability and space-efficiency targets
* Exceptional computing capacity for real-time security, personalized
medicine, precision agriculture or meteorology
Bezons, Salt Lake City, 14 November 2016 - Atos, a global leader in digital
services, has installed a Bull sequana supercomputer at SURFsara in the
Netherlands to expand the capacity of the national supercomputer Cartesius*.
Bull sequana is an open range of supercomputers that is ready to support future
exascale technologies - which will make it possible to process a billion billion
operations per second. This extension future-proofs the system as Bull sequana
can be expanded with the latest technologies, allowing researchers to execute
extremely complex research, and SURFsara to fully leverage its investment and
save substantial costs. Today the compute capacity of Cartesius has been
increased by 18% (to a total of 1.8 Pflops). It will be operational on the 1st
of December 2016; the first Bull sequana to be operational worldwide.
Feeding the need for speed while being 10 times more energy-efficient
Taking computing performance to a whole new level, Bull sequana is 10 times more
energy-efficient and 10 times denser than previous systems, to fully comply with
customers' sustainability and space-efficiency targets.
The supercomputer at SURFsara is used for scientific research by universities,
research institutions and to a growing extent, by business. Cartesius is used
for climate research, water management, improving medical treatment, sustainable
energy research, noise reduction and product and process optimization.
The Dutch national supercomputer Cartesius has been instrumental in achieving
outstanding progress in:
* Support brain research, the improvement of solar cells with nanotechnology
and the Digital Health Suite, which allows large organizations to collect
all kinds of health data through sensors.
* Engineering: to build cleaner engines, the actual combustion chamber must be
finely adjusted. For that a lot of models and simulations are used. With
Cartesius, a simulation that would have taken three months can be conducted
in a few days' time."
Prof. dr. ir. Anwar Osseyran, CEO of SURFsara indicated: "Our society digitizes
quickly and thus huge amounts of data become available to researchers. This data
has to be analyzed, and more complex models and simulations are necessary. With
the new Bull sequana expansion we are able to meet the growing demand for
computing power with an on-demand strategy",
Philippe Vannier, Executive Vice President Big Data & security at Atos
concludes: "This project is part of our Exascale program for 2020, under which
we are developing a new generation of supercomputers. Numerous institutions and
private companies throughout the world use Atos technologies to accelerate
research and innovation. We are proud that SURFsara in the Netherlands has opted
for a Bull sequana as one of the first worldwide".
Major industrial clients, academics or research centers worldwide - including
CEA in France, The Cardiff University in the UK, and the Spanish Genomics Center
(CNAG) - use Bull supercomputers.
Atos at SC16
Atos will exhibit the full breadth of its High Performance Computing offer at
SC16. Together with SURFsara it will present the key benefits of the installed
Bull sequana. Visit booth #721 to discover the latest Bull sequana blades, the
BXI high performance interconnect, and extreme factory, the HPC-as-a-service
solution from Bull.
Bull supercomputers' high-data volume processing capabilities are also maximized
within Atos' Big Data services such as "Atos Codex", an integrated end-to-end
analytics solution including predictive computing and cognitive analytics.
Read the blog by Hugo Meiland, member of the Scientific Community at Atos: 'How
supercomputing functions as a lubricant for the European digital economy'
* The Cartesius national supercomputer is hosted by SURFsara and made possible
by SURF, with the contribution of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific
Research (NWO), the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, and the Ministry
of Economic Affairs. The supercomputer has the latest Intel processors
(Broadwell) and InfiniBand Enhanced Data Rate (EDR).
About Atos
Atos SE (Societas Europaea) is a leader in digital services with pro forma
annual revenue of circa EUR 12 billion and 100,000 employees in 72 countries.
Serving a global client base, the Group provides Consulting & Systems
Integration services, Managed Services & BPO, Cloud operations, Big Data &
Cyber-security solutions, as well as transactional services through Worldline,
the European leader in the payments and transactional services industry. With
its deep technology expertise and industry knowledge, the Group works with
clients across different business sectors: Defense, Financial Services, Health,
Manufacturing, Media, Utilities, Public sector, Retail, Telecommunications, and
Transportation. Atos is focused on business technology that powers progress and
helps organizations to create their firm of the future. The Group is the
Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic & Paralympic Games and
is listed on the Euronext Paris market. Atos operates under the brands Atos,
Atos Consulting, Atos Worldgrid, Bull, Canopy, Unify and Worldline.
Bull is the Atos brand for its technology products and software, which are today
distributed in over 50 countries worldwide. With a rich heritage of over 80
years of technological innovation, 2000 patents and a 700 strong R&D team
supported by the Atos Scientific Community, it offers products and value-added
software to assist clients in their digital transformation, specifically in the
areas of Big Data and Cybersecurity and Defense. www.bull.com|Follow (at)Bull_com
For more information, please contact:
Jose de Vries
+31 6 30 27 26 11
Jose.devries(at)atos.net
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Source: ATOS via GlobeNewswire
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