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Atos delivers BullSequana X410 supercomputer to Swansea University

Swansea (Wales), London (British isles), Paris (France), March 10 2021

Atos today introduced that it has signed a deal with Swansea University to deploy its BullSequana X410 supercomputer, created on the new NVIDIA A100 Tensor Main GPU architecture and NVIDIA Mellanox HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand networking, which will help teachers in Swansea and across Wales to travel floor-breaking study primarily based on superior machine mastering and deep mastering algorithms.

The premier NVIDIA A100 deployments in Wales, this significant-effectiveness supercomputer types aspect of Atos’ present partnership with Supercomputing Wales – an Atos and Dell EMC supercomputing Centre of Excellence partially funded by the European Regional Progress Fund (ERDF) by means of the Welsh Federal government.

Part of the ‘AccelerateAI’ initiative, also funded by the European Regional Progress Fund (ERDF) by means of the Welsh Federal government, this GPU-accelerated supercomputer will help study teams with concentrations in mathematics, engineering, science and drugs across Wales to deliver progress in slicing-edge AI study and in industrial programs.

The NVIDIA A100 Tensor Main GPUs set up in the BullSequana X410 supercomputer are remarkably parallel processors designed to raise computing. The integration of up to eight GPUs in a 2U form aspect destinations this technique at the forefront of today’s accelerated computing options, in phrases of compute density, effectiveness and value-efficiency. The supercomputer will also leverage NVIDIA Mellanox HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand’s rapidly knowledge throughout, really reduced latency, and sensible In-Network Computing engines, enabling state-of-the-artwork effectiveness for a broad array of HPC and AI programs that will additional travel Swansea University’s study.

The AI supercomputer will be primarily based at Swansea University’s electrical power-productive Bay Data Centre, wherever Atos will preserve the tools and perform intently with teachers to help tackle their precise study wants.

Agnès Boudot, Senior Vice President, Head of HPC & Quantum at Atos, mentioned: “The BullSequana will provide researchers across Wales with state-of-the-artwork hardware to help new scientific progress on machine mastering and deep mastering algorithms. As the 1st significant-scale deployment of the NVIDIA A100 architecture, we feel this is an fascinating milestone for supercomputing-enabled study in Wales, supporting its ambition to be a earth leader in significant-effectiveness computing as aspect of the Supercomputing Wales challenge.”

Professor Biagio Lucini, Director of the Swansea Academy of Superior Computing at Swansea University, mentioned: “We are pleased that the shipping of this slicing-edge, AI BullSequana X410 supercomputer will empower teachers across Wales to travel ahead likely floor-breaking discoveries. Setting up on the achievements of the Supercomputing Wales challenge, this remarkably progressive tools will increase how AI is implemented into marketplace and used to resolve study troubles, although strengthening Wales’ posture as a main supercomputing hub.”

“HPC and AI have grow to be the foundation on which we understand the options to the world’s most elaborate and demanding troubles,“ mentioned Rod Evans, EMEA Director for Supercomputing, Bigger Education and AI at NVIDIA. “That is why NVIDIA has created the world’s most robust and complete AI supercomputing system that supplies the balance and effectiveness necessary for HPC and AI researchers.”

Researchers from other Universities in the Supercomputing Wales consortium – which includes Cardiff, Aberystwyth and Bangor – will have entry to the significant-effectiveness technique, serving to to assistance the country’s ambition to compete globally for study and innovation initiatives. In collaboration with community SMEs, the challenge will also speed up adoption of AI solutions in Welsh marketplace.

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About Atos

Atos is a worldwide leader in electronic transformation with a hundred and five,000 staff members and yearly earnings of in excess of € 11 billion. European amount a single in cybersecurity, cloud and significant effectiveness computing, the Group supplies customized conclude-to-conclude options for all industries in seventy one international locations. A pioneer in decarbonization products and services and products and solutions, Atos is dedicated to a secure and decarbonized electronic for its shoppers. Atos operates underneath the brand names Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), shown on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The reason of Atos is to help style and design the future of the details area. Its abilities and products and services assistance the improvement of information, instruction and study in a multicultural approach and add to the improvement of scientific and technological excellence. Across the earth, the Group permits its clients and staff members, and associates of societies at significant to dwell, perform and produce sustainably, in a secure and secure details area.

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