Paris, June 29, 2020
Atos, a worldwide leader in electronic transformation, and GENCI, the French nationwide higher-efficiency computing organization, and the CEA, reveal that Joliot-Curie supercomputer with its 22 petaflop/s peak computing electricity is the most highly effective supercomputer in France dedicated to tutorial and industrial open investigate, and the 3rd most highly effective investigate computer in Europe, according to the TOP500 ranking released on 22 June 2020. This supercomputer is derived from the co-structure function carried out by the CEA with Atos for a lot more than twenty a long time*, and which designed it possible to outline present-day electricity computing architectures. The Joliot-Curie supercomputer ranks in 34th position in the TOP500 and is driven by Atos’ BullSequana XH2000 platform and the most up-to-date AMD Rome processors.
Virtually one particular 12 months on from its inauguration, Joliot-Curie is now running at entire pace for the very last 6 months and has been thoroughly applied in over a dozen tutorial and industrial fields these as local weather, astrophysics, geophysics, higher fidelity combustion, biology, molecular dynamics and product qualities, genome and neuroscience fields.
Operated at the CEA’s Very Significant Computing Centre (TGCC), this extraordinary device has demonstrated its abilities to supply urgent computing accessibility to huge scale HPC resources in the struggle against COVID-19 fewer than 2 months following getting released in creation, thanks also to robust help offered by CEA industry experts who established up the important ecosystem to function and write-up-process efficiently COVID-19 simulations.
As aspect of the PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) COVID-19 Quickly Monitor simply call and the nationwide urgent COVID-19 calls from GENCI, European researchers have getting utilizing French supercomputer resources to electricity 36 COVID-19 assignments with eighteen of these managing on Joliot-Curie, supplying scientific outcomes applied to accelerate and help public conclusion-creating for the struggle against Covid-19 and pace up the enhancement of a procedure centered on an the best possible knowledge of the virus.
Considering that January 2020, Joliot-Curie now features an extensive computing electricity with a lot more than 440,000 higher efficiency x86 cores in almost 5000 of HPC nodes. It is the initially supercomputer put in around the globe with AMD EPYC™ 7H12 collection processors integrated in Atos’ most up-to-date BullSequana XH2000, which capabilities DLC (Immediate Liquid Cooling) for an optimized energy-successful platform.
Stephane Requena, CTO of GENCI, explained: “With its modular and balanced architecture, Joliot-Curie is one particular of the most-applied techniques in the PRACE European HPC infrastructure we are truly very pleased to be capable to offer these computing electricity to European scientists, in individual in the struggle against COVID-19”.
Helene Bringer, Director Major Data & HPC at Atos in France, extra: “Each new Top500 ranking underlines the immediate rate of innovation in the field of Significant Performance Computing. With 6 supercomputers, together with Joliot Curie, we are very pleased to be rated among the the top rated 50 leaders in the entire world thanks to our exceptionally higher-efficiency BullSequana technologies, and to add to industrial and scientific competitiveness in Europe.”
Christine Ménaché, Head of the CEA’s Very Significant Computing Center (TGCC) explained: “All the TGCC teams have been mobilized to help buyers in their use of this new AMD-Rome partition in Joliot-Curie, especially all those associated in assignments against COVID-19. The CEA is very pleased to be capable to help French and European investigate thanks to its skills designed in the definition of computer middle architectures, the implementation and use of supercomputers and their ecosystem, notably by means of Joliot-Curie“.
The AMD partition of Joliot-Curie was funded beneath the European undertaking PPI4HPC (H2020-754271), which aims to receive modern computing and storage remedies, by means of a joint procurement coordinated by GENCI, for main HPC centers CEA/GENCI, CINECA (Italy), JUELICH (Germany) and BSC (Spain).
Also, GENCI, CEA and Atos are very pleased to announce the acquisition of a new state-of-the-artwork ARM A64FX Fujitsu partition beneath PPI4HPC to further more improve the abilities of the Joliot-Curie device and help constructing the route to Exascale** for European and French scientists.
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About Atos
Atos is a worldwide leader in electronic transformation with 110,000 staff members in seventy three international locations and annual earnings of € 12 billion. European variety one particular in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Significant-Performance Computing, the Group supplies conclusion-to-conclusion Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Major Data, Business Apps and Digital Office remedies. The Group is the Globally Information Know-how Partner for the Olympic & Paralympic Game titles and operates beneath the brands Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), outlined on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.
The purpose of Atos is to assistance structure the upcoming of the information and facts area. Its skills and providers help the enhancement of knowledge, schooling and investigate in a multicultural tactic and add to the enhancement of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the entire world, the Group enables its prospects and staff members, and customers of societies at huge to reside, function and acquire sustainably, in a protected and protected information and facts area.
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About GENCI
GENCI is a civil society beneath French legislation, forty nine% owned by the Condition represented by the Ministère de de l’Enseignement Supérieur de la Recherche et de l’Innovation (MESRI), twenty% by CEA, twenty% by CNRS, ten% by the Universities represented by the Conférence des Présidents d’Universités and one% by Inria. Produced in 2007 by the French public authorities, GENCI is aimed at putting France among the the main international locations in Europe and on the worldwide stage in HPC and AI. In this context, GENCI has the missions to employ the French nationwide technique by equipping with HPC and huge facts storage resources the a few nationwide computing centres in buy to help scientific open investigate, to add constructing an European integrated HPC ecosystem and to advertise AI, numerical simulation and HPC in the tutorial and industrial investigate communities.
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About CEA
The CEA is a French public investigate organisation serving market, specialising in 4 major parts: energy transition and reduced-carbon energies, electronic transformation, health and biotechnologies, defence and protection. It carries out the missions entrusted to it by the French federal government. With its twenty,000 staff members and 9 investigate centres geared up with pretty huge infrastructures, the CEA depends on fundamental investigate of excellence. It is associated in nationwide, European and worldwide assignments with a huge variety of tutorial and industrial partners. The CEA ranks as the main investigate organisation filing patents in France and Europe according to the Clarivate ranking (2019).
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*CEA’s first contract began with Bull, which was acquired by Atos in 2014 and is now absolutely integrated into Atos.
**The exascale is the exaflopic scale, knowing that one particular exaflop corresponds to one particular billion billion functions for every 2nd.
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