Paris (France), Madrid (Spain), February 23, 2021
Atos announces that it has been chosen by the Spanish State Meteorological Company (AEMET) to provide and set up its computing and storage technological know-how, by the tender “Contracting of Provide by leasing without the need of the alternative to acquire a Supercomputing Program for the AEMET”. Based on the BullSequana supercomputing architecture from Atos, the new supercomputer will present virtually 10 situations far more computing capability than the present just one which was set up in the 2014.
This new supercomputer will strengthen and grow AEMET’s present computing abilities to increase investigation in distinct spots this sort of as temperature forecasting, climate transform, wave prediction and support its collaboration with worldwide organizations. Moreover, it supports AEMET satisfy the new strategic, technological and services provision worries, this sort of as making ready, giving and disseminating meteorological information and forecasts, in its 2019-21 Action Prepare, thereby consolidating its presence as just one of the principal meteorological facilities in Europe.
“The availability of the new high-efficiency program will not only make it possible for for greater computing capability and a reduction in the time important for the execution of numerical models, but it will also help us to improve methods, automate procedures and place in location comprehensive techniques, to market a far more sustainable architecture.” mentioned Raúl Hilara, Telematics Coordinator of the State Meteorological Company at AEMET.
“The fact that AEMET has renewed their assurance in our technological abilities is testomony to our abilities and we are proud that Atos will continue to be their reference technological know-how service provider in supercomputing, accompanying them in the new worries of temperature forecasting and climate transform. This new success strengthens our dedication as a European leader in the meteorology sector. ” mentioned José Camacho, director of HPC & Quantum computing of Atos in Iberia.
This challenge will consist of the set up of two clusters equipped with far more than 50,000 cores based on AMD EPYC processor technological know-how, with a capability 5.nine PB of gross storage, connected with a lower latency interconnect community of two hundred Gbits / sec.
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