Atos wins contract to provide GENCI with one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
Paris, 15th June 2017 - Atos, through its technology brand Bull, has won a
contract with GENCI (Grand Équipement National de Calcul Intensif) to deliver
one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, planned for the end of
2017. A successor of the Curie system installed at the TGCC (Très Grand Centre
de Calcul of the CEA in Bruyères-Le-Chatel), the Bull Sequana supercomputer has
an overall power of 9 petaflops and can carry out 9 million billion operations
per second. It will be used for research purposes in France and Europe. The
announcement was formalised yesterday at the Ministry of Higher Education,
Research and Innovation.
A supercomputer to speed up academic and industrial research
The new supercomputer will be made available to French and European researchers
for use in academic and industrial fields that require extremely high computing
and data processing power.
The applications for intensive computing are many and varied, such as
climatology, where the supercomputer will help to model past, present and future
meteorological conditions with incredible accuracy within the framework of
international activities carried out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC)[1]. When applied to life sciences, the high-performance computer
will make it possible to work on the scale of basic chemical processes in
molecular systems, thus paving the way for major advances in the personalisation
of medicine. In the energy industry, the supercomputer will not only optimise
the process of combustion in motors and turbines, but also develop alternatives
based on electricity with new-generation batteries in the wind, tidal and, in
future, fusion power sectors. In astrophysics, only a supercomputer with this
kind of power is capable of simulating the entire universe, thus putting us in a
position to better understand its origin and evolution.
The equivalent of 75,000 PCs connected together
Based on the platform of the latest generation of the Bull Sequana X1000, which
will eventually be capable of achieving an exaflop (a billion billion operations
per second), the first instalment of this supercomputer will have a peak
computing power of 8.9 petaflops and a distributed memory capacity of almost
400 terabytes. An extension of its configuration is planned for 2019, when its
computing capacity is set to increase to more than 20 petaflops.
Consisting of more than 124,000 computing cores, the supercomputer will benefit
from the patented direct liquid cooling (DLC) technology used to cool the system
down to room temperature, creating an energy saving of up to 40% compared to air
cooling.
"The design of Curie's successor illustrates the expertise of Atos engineers,
confirming Atos' European leadership in the supercomputer domain. Following on
from the Curie supercomputer, deliveredin 2011 and already amongst the most
powerful in the world, we are proud of the renewed trust that GENCI has placed
in us to accompany them each day in their development of academic and industrial
research" states Philippe Vannier, Group Advisor for Technology at Atos
"GENCI welcomes the acquisition of a new Atos supercomputer, which will actively
help us to maintain the scientific competitivity of our French researchers. This
highly anticiapted acquisition indeed marks an acceleration in French investment
in research organisations. This will also be of great advantage to f industrial
companies, especially SMEs and start-ups. This high-performance equipment
spearheads our commitment in the European research infrastructure PRACE
(PartneRship for Advanced Computing in Europe) in which GENCI is highly involved
in representing France" says Philippe Lavocat, CEO of GENCI.
The Atos group, leader of the supercomputer in Europe, has 22 supercomputers in
the TOP500 of the most powerful machines in the world.
Specifications of the new supercomputer:
* All of the computing nodes consist of 9 Sequana cells and are equipped with
the latest generation of Intel® Xeon® Skylake-EP processors and Intel® Xeon
Phi(TM) KNL manycore processors for a total of over 124,700 cores;
* The peak computing power is in the range of 8.9 petaflops (6.86 petaflops in
x86_64 technology and 2.08 petaflops in accelerator technology);
* The distributed memory capacity is in the range of 400 Tb;
* The patented direct liquid cooling technology makes it possible to cool the
machine with hot water, reducing energy consumption by up to 40% in
comparison to using air to cool.
* The entire solution functions under the new Bull SCS 5 environment based on
the Linux Red Hat 7.x operating system. The solution also includes a cluster
of Lustre multi-level storage capable of releasing a minimum output of 300
Gb/s (500 Gb/s over time) for a minimum required data storage of 5 Pio.
Atos at ISC
Atos is a Platinum Sponsor at the ISC High Performance Annual Conference that
takes place in Frankfurt from 19th-22nd June 2017, and will exhibit the full
breadth of its High Performance Computing offer on booth #D-1126. Follow the
developments online at (at)Atos, (at)Bull_com
About Atos
Atos is a global leader in digital transformation with approximately 100,000
employees in 72 countries and annual revenue of around ? 12 billion. The
European number one in Big Data, Cybersecurity, High Performance Computing and
Digital Workplace, The Group provides Cloud services, Infrastructure & Data
Management, Business & Platform solutions, as well as transactional services
through Worldline, the European leader in the payment industry. With its
cutting-edge technologies, digital expertise and industry knowledge, Atos
supports the digital transformation of its clients across various business
sectors: Defense, Financial Services, Health, Manufacturing, Media, Energy &
Utilities, Public sector, Retail, Telecommunications, Transportation. The Group
is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic & Paralympic
Games and operates under the brands Atos, Atos Consulting, Atos Worldgrid, Bull,
Canopy, Unify and Worldline. Atos SE (Societas Europaea) is listed on the CAC40
Paris stock index. www.atos.net
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:
Atos - Jose de Vries +31 6 30 27 26 11
jose.devries(at)atos.net (at)josee_devries
GENCI - Séverine SAINT HUBERT +33 1 42 50 04 15 Severine.saint-hubert(at)genci.fr
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[1] Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
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