Paris, France Ghent, Belgium – 24 June 2020
Atos, a global chief in electronic transformation, announces that it has signed a six-calendar year contract for a price of about 10 Million Euro with Ghent College (UGent) to deliver the following Tier1 supercomputer for the Flemish Supercomputer Centre VSC. This supercomputer will help scientists from educational investigation institutions, federal government and field to pace up time-consuming calculations and resolve intricate computational troubles: from modeling weather and local climate transform to supporting the progress of renewable electrical power and accelerating the lookup for new drugs. Most considerably, supercomputers have lately been instrumental in investigation combatting COVID-19, including in Flanders.
Antoine Kerrinckx, CEO at Atos in Belux: “Engineering is turning into significantly critical in our modern society. We feel it’s critical that scientists have the correct tools and infrastructure at their disposal. We are delighted to add to the development of science and engineering with the delivery of our Atos supercomputer.”
Atos will equip the new Tier1 supercomputer with BullSequana XH2000 engineering and its BullSequana X Supercomputer Suite as the application stack. This state-of-the-art application setting for Substantial Efficiency Computing and AI will enable stop-buyers to produce and run the very important application codes that are used through the varied investigation and progress fields within the VSC, these kinds of as supplies layout, engineering, weather/local climate modeling and bioinformatics.
This will be the third Tier1 supercomputer that the VSC installs in Flanders. The initial one ‘muk’ was installed at Ghent College in 2012, succeeded by ‘BrENIAC’ at KU Leuven in 2016. Now, in 2020, a new Tier1 supercomputer will yet again be installed at the Ghent College infrastructure hub of the Flemish Supercomputer Centre VSC. The VSC is a partnership concerning the five Flemish universities and is managed by the Analysis Fund – Flanders (FWO). VSC encourages the use of scientific and technical computing in the Flemish educational and industrial landscape, giving dedicated infrastructure, instruction and companies. Funding is supplied by the Flemish federal government, section of Economic system, Science and Innovation.
Hilde Crevits, Flemish Minister for Economic system, Science and Innovation explained: “One of the factors that the COVID-19 pandemic has plainly exemplified is that state-of-the-artwork infrastructure, including supercomputers, are critical to enable sturdy investigation and progress in Flanders. I am very pleased that our steady infrastructure investments help progress Flemish pioneering capabilities in R&D.”
The new supercomputer is scheduled for delivery at Ghent College in This autumn 2020. A further more expansion of this process is planned for 2022.
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Technological aspects
The configuration is made up of five racks with the adhering to elements:
• 98 BullSequana X2410 blades (294 nodes), each and every node equipped with the AMD Rome 7H12 CPUs and 256GB of RAM (16GB*sixteen@3200MHz dims)
• fourteen BullSequana X2410 blades (forty two nodes), each and every node equipped with the AMD Rome 7H12 CPUs and 512GB of RAM (32GB*sixteen@3200MHz dims)
• twenty BullSequana X2415 blades equipped with the new Nvidia RedStone board embedding the Nvidia A100-40 GPUs (x4)
• DDN multi-tier EXAScaler remedy with a Hybrid ES7990X and all flash SFA200NVX to deliver about a hundred TB of accelerated flash performance and four PB of prolonged term storage.
About Atos
Atos is a global chief in electronic transformation with 110,000 personnel in 73 countries and annual income of € 12 billion. European variety one in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Substantial-Efficiency Computing, the Group gives stop-to-stop Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Significant Knowledge, Business enterprise Apps and Electronic Office answers. The Group is the Globally Facts Engineering Associate for the Olympic & Paralympic Online games and operates below the makes Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), detailed on the CAC40 Paris stock index.
The objective of Atos is to help layout the upcoming of the info house. Its expertise and companies support the progress of understanding, instruction and investigation in a multicultural method and add to the progress of scientific and technological excellence. Across the earth, the Group enables its buyers and personnel, and customers of societies at large to dwell, get the job done and produce sustainably, in a secure and secure info house.
Push contacts Atos:
Benelux: Lise Kleijn | [email protected] | +31 six 831 69 358 |
International: Laura Fau | [email protected] | +33 six 73 64 04 eighteen | @laurajanefau
About VSC
The Flemish Supercomputer Centre (Vlaams Supercomputer Centrum – VSC) is a partnership concerning the five Flemish universities and their college associations. This consortium delivers collectively knowhow in scientific and technical computing (including significant performance computing, significant throughput computing, cloud computing and info processing) in Flanders, and houses infrastructure in 4 hubs: the datacenters of the universities of Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent and Leuven. The VSC is managed by the Analysis Fund – Flanders (FWO).
The VSC encourages the use of scientific and technical computing in the Flemish educational and industrial landscape. To this stop, it delivers infrastructure, instruction and companies. In addition, VSC acts as a lever to encourage the importance of scientific and technical computing and its extra price to modern society.
Push get in touch with Ghent College:
Ewald Pauwels | [email protected] | +32 nine 264 4716 |