Atos’s supercomputer to pave the way for Bulgaria’s leading position in high-tech

This will be the most highly effective supercomputer in Jap Europe and is expected to be operational in July 2021

Paris (France), Prague (Czech Republic), Sofia (Bulgaria) eleven May 2021

Atos currently announces that Bulgaria’s new EuroHPC supercomputer, which is based on Atos’ highly effective BullSequana XH2000 architecture, is now fully delivered and assembled at Sofia Tech Park in Bulgaria. Atos was selected to create Bulgaria’s petascale supercomputer by the European Higher Overall performance Computing Joint Enterprise (EuroHPC JU), the internet hosting entity, and the consortium “Petascale Supercomputer Bulgaria” (PetaSC-Bulgaria) whose top lover is Sofia Tech Park.

This will be the most highly effective supercomputer in Jap Europe and will aid to leverage Bulgaria’s higher-tech ambitions. Atos’ Czech Republic undertaking groups have presently began the configuration tests and the supercomputer is expected to begin doing work operationally in July 2021.

The supercomputer will aid improve European scientific investigate and foster innovation by furnishing accessibility to point out-of-the-artwork HPC infrastructure and expert services to a wide vary of users from the scientific investigate local community, field and the community sector.

It will provide the progress of scientific, community and industrial applications in lots of fields, such as bioinformatics, pharmacy, molecular dynamics and mechanics, quantum chemistry and biochemistry, artificial intelligence, customized medicine, bioengineering, meteorology, and the struggle versus weather improve.

“We are impressed by the professionalism of the Atos workforce. The get the job done on the shipping and delivery and set up of the device is in advance of plan. The major challenge for the Consortium “Petascale Supercomputer – Bulgaria” workforce is setting up and building a valuable relationship involving the academy, the field, the Sofia Tech Park, and the petascale laptop or computer. In this regard, we talk with the current EuroHPC centers and have initiated conferences with the academy and field associates. We presently have the initial requests for fixing pragmatic jobs in chemistry, medicine, and biology. Of class, we are also wanting forward to the foreseeable future – we are chatting with Atos to increase their system and expertise in quantum computer systems”, explained Peter Statev, the Chairman of the Supervisory Board at Sofia Tech Park.

“As Europe’s top supercomputing manufacturer, we are happy to be supporting scientists in field and universities across Europe speed up scientific discovery and to build options for latest troubles this kind of as these in health, electricity and agriculture. The use of artificial intelligence in investigate has greater the have to have for more adaptability and more versatility in supercomputing, which is exactly what we can give with our BullSequana XH2000 so that our customers can profit from the new capacities of hybrid workloads.” explained Agnès Boudot, Senior Vice President, Head of HPC & Quantum at Atos.

The supercomputer is co-financed by the Republic of Bulgaria and EuroHPC JU with a joint expense totaling EUR eleven.5 million.

In addition to this EuroHPC tender, Atos’ BullSequana will also be applied in four extra EuroHPC supercomputing centres CINECA in Italy, IZUM in Slovenia, with LuxProvide in Luxembourg and in the Minho Highly developed Computing Centre in Portugal, therefore reinforcing Atos’ place as a European leader in higher-effectiveness computing.

31 Atos supercomputers are mentioned in the TOP500 all over the world supercomputer rating, with a blended peak effectiveness of 251 petaflops – this is an boost of 79{d5f2c26e8a2617525656064194f8a7abd2a56a02c0e102ae4b29477986671105} in petaflops from the TOP500 listing in June 2020.

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Technological Specs

The size of the RAM reaches around three hundred TB and the range of cores is a hundred and forty four 384, although the laptop or computer is built on AMD EPYC processors cooled by very hot drinking water and has a speedy disk storage with a potential of 2 PB. The total process is backed up versus a ability failure by an uninterruptible ability provide with an output of one MW. The size of the process is twelve computing racks and 2 racks with auxiliary infrastructure. The entire complex weighs around 30 tons.

About Atos

Atos is a world-wide leader in electronic transformation with one hundred and five,000 personnel and annual profits of around € eleven billion. European range 1 in cybersecurity, cloud and higher-effectiveness computing, the Team presents personalized conclusion-to-conclusion options for all industries in seventy one nations. A pioneer in decarbonization expert services and goods, Atos is dedicated to a protected and decarbonized electronic for its consumers. Atos operates below the brand names Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), mentioned on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The objective of Atos is to aid design the foreseeable future of the facts room. Its skills and expert services assist the progress of awareness, training and investigate in a multicultural method and lead to the progress of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the environment, the Team allows its customers and personnel, and customers of societies at large to live, get the job done and build sustainably, in a safe and sound and protected facts room.

Further facts for journalists

Atos has been running in the Czech Republic because September one, 2011 adhering to the acquisition of Siemens IT Alternatives and Products and services, s.r.o. With more than three hundred personnel in four branches, it generated an external profits of €63m in 2020. Atos in Bulgaria has more than 1200 personnel doing work in two lawful entities furnishing environment-course IT options for corporate consumers in the CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) and F&B (Meals & Beverage) sectors as nicely as a wide vary of conclusion-to-conclusion expert services (20+ organization capabilities and one thousand+ processes) in the Atos team.

Push Contacts:

Bulgaria: Debora Apostolova | [email protected] | +35 98 83 22 twenty five 01

World: Laura Fau | [email protected] | +33 6 73 64 04 18 | @laurajanefau

Image: Atos BullSequana XH2000 supercomputer at Sofia Tech Park in Bulgaria with Jaroslav Vojtěch, Head of HPC & Significant Information at Atos in Czech Republic.