Atos and Graphcore partner to deliver advanced AI HPC solutions worldwide

Paris (France) and Bristol (United kingdom) – July 22, 2021

Atos and Graphcore today announce that they have signed a partnership to accelerate performance and innovation in Artificial Intelligence (AI) by integrating Graphcore’s advanced IPU compute programs into Atos’ lately introduced ThinkAI presenting to carry AI high-performance options to shoppers globally.

This partnership will mutually reward both of those parties. Atos’ extended-standing situation as a European chief in high-performance computing (HPC) and trustworthy advisor, company and integrator of HPC options at scale will give Graphcore obtain to a multitude of new shoppers, sectors and geographies. Graphcore in transform will perform with Atos globally to extend its world wide get to by focusing on huge company enterprise in sectors together with finance, health care, telecoms and consumer world-wide-web as perfectly as national labs and universities targeted on scientific investigate, which are speedily developing their AI abilities.

ThinkAI provides alongside one another Atos’ AI organization consultancy expertise – with its experts at the AtosCenter of Excellence in State-of-the-art Computing – with its electronic safety abilities and its software package, these kinds of as Atos HPC Application Suites, to allow businesses to accelerate time to AI operationalization and industrialization.

Graphcore, the United kingdom-headquartered maker of the Intelligence Processing Device (IPU), performs a substantial position in Atos’ ThinkAI presenting, which is targeted on the twin aims of accelerating pure artificial intelligence purposes and augmenting standard HPC simulation with AI. Graphcore’s IPU-POD programs for scale-up datacentre computing will be an integral part of ThinkAI.

Even ahead of today’s formal launch of the partnership, the two businesses welcomed their initial big joint customer, a single of the biggest cloud companies in South Korea, which will be making use of Graphcore programs in huge-scale AI cloud datacenters, in a offer facilitated by Atos.

“ThinkAI represents a huge dedication to the long run of artificial intelligence by a single of the world’s most trustworthy know-how businesses. For Atos to have place Graphcore as a crucial part of its technique says a excellent offer about the maturity of our components and software package, and the skill of our programs to supply on customer demands,” explained Fabrice Moizan, GM and SVP Sales EMEAI and Asia Pacific at Graphcore.

Agnès Boudot, Senior Vice President, Head of HPC & Quantum at Atos explained: “With ThinkAI, we’re building it attainable for businesses from any field to accomplish breakthroughs with AI. Graphcore’s IPU components and Poplar® software package is opening up new opportunities for innovators to examine the likely of AI for their businesses, complemented with our field-tailored AI organization consultancy, electronic safety abilities and software package, we’re thrilled to be orchestrating these reducing-edge technologies in our ThinkAI remedy.”

 

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About Atos

Atos is a world wide chief in electronic transformation with a hundred and five,000 workers and once-a-year earnings of more than € eleven billion. European selection a single in cybersecurity, cloud and high performance computing, the Group delivers tailored end-to-end options for all industries in 71 international locations. A pioneer in decarbonization companies and merchandise, Atos is fully commited to a secure and decarbonized electronic for its customers. Atos operates under the brands Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), outlined on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The purpose of Atos is to aid structure the long run of the information and facts room. Its expertise and companies help the advancement of knowledge, instruction and investigate in a multicultural strategy and lead to the advancement of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the earth, the Group permits its shoppers and workers, and associates of societies at huge to stay, perform and develop sustainably, in a safe and sound and secure information and facts room.

About Graphcore

Graphcore is the inventor of the Intelligence Processing Device (IPU), the world’s most refined microprocessor, particularly created for the demands of recent and future-technology artificial intelligence workloads.  

Graphcore’s IPU-POD datacenter programs, for scale up and scale out AI compute, present the skill to operate huge products throughout several IPUs, or to share the compute useful resource concerning diverse users and workloads.

Considering the fact that its founding in 2016, Graphcore has lifted much more than $730 million in funding.  

Traders incorporate Sequoia Money, Microsoft, Dell, Samsung, BMW iVentures, Robert Bosch Enterprise Money, as perfectly as leading AI innovators together with Demis Hassabis (Deepmind), Pieter Abbeel (UC Berkeley), and Zoubin Ghahramani (Google Mind).

A lot more information and facts can be found at https://www.graphcore.ai 

 

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Atos: Laura Fau | [email protected] | +33 6 seventy three sixty four 04 eighteen | @laurajanefau

Graphcore: Iain Mackenzie | [email protected] | +447977 015577