Atos awarded MareNostrum5 supercomputer contract by EuroHPC JU for Barcelona Supercomputing Middle

Paris, France – June 23, 2022 – Atos, main a consortium of expertise suppliers, as we speak publicizes that it has been chosen to offer the pre-exascale system to be hosted by the Barcelona Supercomputing Middle, in Spain, as a part of the EuroHPC JU (European Excessive Efficiency Computing Joint Enterprise). MareNostrum5 will rank amongst the world’s prime supercomputers and can pave the way in which towards exascale capabilities: the following supercomputing period.

This new system will assist the EU’s mission to offer European scientists and business with entry to cutting-edge HPC infrastructures and companies, with the principle goal to strengthen medical analysis capabilities throughout Europe. Atos is already supporting Europe’s HPC capabilities by offering pre-exascale techniques for 5 different EuroHPC tasks out of eight.

With an influence capability as much as 314 Petaflops, or a minimum of 314 million billion calculations per second, the system known as MareNostrum5 is tailor-made to spice up European medical analysis by drug analysis, the event of vaccines, virus unfold simulations in addition to synthetic intelligence and large knowledge processing purposes. The system may even unlock computing efficiency for HPC particular advanced purposes, comparable to local weather analysis, engineering, materials science and earth sciences, which require to be managed out of the cloud.

Because the prime contractor, Atos will handle the supply of the complete MareNostrum5 supercomputer in shut cooperation with European expertise specialist ParTec AG, who will present core components of the answer and assist Atos within the technical coordination of the venture. A big accelerator partition will likely be based mostly on Atos’ just lately introduced BullSequana XH3000 next-gen hybrid structure – the most important set up worldwide – integrating GPU nodes utilizing NVIDIA’s H100 Tensor Core GPU, based mostly on the brand new Hopper™ structure and with 4^th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (codenamed Sapphire Rapids). Atos may even ship nodes with NVIDIA’s Grace™ CPU Superchip for the next-generation common function expertise analysis partition.

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The Lenovo common function compute partition, offered by ParTec AG, will likely be based mostly on Lenovo ThinkSystem SD650 V3 Neptune™ nodes with 4^th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors – to construct one of many largest common function scientific supercomputer worldwide. The storage a part of the system, additionally offered by ParTec AG, will use IBM Spectrum Scale international knowledge platform. Each the accelerator and common function compute partitions will profit from superior Direct Liquid Cooling options to offer a particularly energy-efficient system. MareNostrum5 will likely be interconnected with the NVIDIA Quantum-2 400Gb/s InfiniBand networking platform.

“The EuroHPC Joint Enterprise continues to paved the way in European supercomputing. MareNostrum 5 will present European scientists and business with entry to cutting-edge HPC infrastructures and companies. It can energy medical innovation but additionally local weather analysis, engineering and earth sciences whereas supporting our goal to advertise inexperienced and sustainable applied sciences.” Anders Dam Jensen, the Government Director of the EuroHPC Joint Enterprise

“The acquisition of MareNostrum 5 will allow world-changing scientific breakthroughs such because the creation of digital twins to assist resolve international challenges like local weather change and the development of precision drugs. As well as, BSC-CNS is dedicated to creating European {hardware} for use in future generations of supercomputers and serving to to attain technological sovereignty for the EU’s member states.” mentioned Director of BSC-CNS Mateo Valero

“As Europe’s main supercomputing producer, we’re proud to be supporting Europe’s dedication in the direction of technological excellence and sovereignty with the MareNostrum5 pre-exascale system. With this answer absolutely manufactured in Europe, we are going to assist researchers to speed up scientific discovery and to develop options for present and future challenges.” commented Emmanuel Le Roux, Group SVP, World Head of HPC, AI & Quantum at Atos.

Atos’ BullSequana vary is and will likely be utilized in six EuroHPC supercomputing centres; Sofia Tech Park in Bulgaria (Discoverer), CINECA in Italy (Leonardo), IZUM in Slovenia (Vega), LuxProvide in Luxembourg (MeluXina), Minho Superior Computing Centre in Portugal (Deucalion), and now in Barcelona Supercomputing Middle thereby reinforcing Atos’ place as a European chief in high-performance computing.

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