Atos’ BullSequana powers the first EuroHPC supercomputer operational at IZUM in Slovenia

Based on Atos’ BullSequana XH2000, the ‘Vega’ supercomputer was inaugurated at the Institute of Details Science (IZUM) in Slovenia

Maribor (Slovenia), Paris (France) April 21, 2021

Atos and the Institute of Details Science (IZUM) in Maribor, Slovenia, right now announce that the initial EuroHPC supercomputer is now operational. This is the ‘Vega’ supercomputer, primarily based on Atos’ BullSequana XH2000 architecture, which is now set up subsequent a start off-up ceremony hosted by IZUM with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia, Janez Janša, in attendance, collectively with the Govt Vice-President of the European Commission Margrethe Vestager, the Minister of Education and learning, Science and Activity Dr. Simona Kustec and the Govt Director of EuroHPC Joint Endeavor Anders Dam Jensen.

Vega, the greatest supercomputer in the nation, is primarily based at IZUM, a public infrastructural establishment and exploration group established by the Authorities of the Republic of Slovenia. It will be applied to assist the advancement of top scientific, public sector and industrial apps in a lot of domains, together with personalized medicine, bio-engineering, weather conditions forecasting, fight from climate alter and finding new components and medication.

It will give researchers from Slovenia and the EuroHPC network with a modern day infrastructure offering most overall performance for computing, information processing, higher-overall performance information analysis (HPDA), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Device Mastering model advancement with speedy network connectivity to other computing facilities in Slovenia and Europe.

Dr. Aleš Bošnjak, Director of IZUM: “We’re delighted to announce the start off-up of the initial EuroHPC supercomputer here in Slovenia. Now we can push ahead our exploration and innovation projects, in unique our HPC RIVR venture layout plans, supporting Slovenian and European researchers and buyers from the public and business sectors, to meet new issues and further more lead to the regional and European HPC initiatives.”

Named Vega, right after Slovenian mathematician Jurij Vega, the new petascale supercomputer will be co-owned and jointly operated by the EuroHPC JU (The European Higher-General performance Computing Joint Endeavor). Able of executing more than six,eight petaflops (six,eight million billion calculations per second), the method will be amongst the world’s major five supercomputers.

Agnes Boudot, Senior Vice President, Head of HPC & Quantum at Atos concluded “As the top European supercomputer maker, we are proud to be contributing to advancing exploration and innovation in Slovenia and in Europe. ‘Vega’, as aspect of the EuroHPC software and network, is aspect of a European worldclass supercomputing ecosystem and will aid Europe contend globally in strategic domains this sort of as synthetic intelligence, bio-engineering and the fight from climate alter.”

Atos was awarded a five-year €17.3 million euro contract to source, set up and keep the BullSequana XH2000 ‘Vega’ supercomputer.

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Technical Details

• twelve x BullSequana XH2000 Direct Liquid cooling racks
• 8PF Linpack General performance (Rmax)
• 960 CPU nodes with AMD EPYC 7H12 processors
• sixty GPU nodes with four x NVIDIA A100 Tensor Main GPUs each individual
• Full 325TB of memory
• 1PB of usable storage for Higher Performace storage
• 18PB of usable storage for Large Capability Storage
• Infiniband HDR Interconnect
• 38 x Atos Sequana x400 sequence provider node

About Atos

Atos is a world chief in digital transformation with one zero five,000 staff members and yearly earnings of in excess of € 11 billion. European range one in cybersecurity, cloud and higher overall performance computing, the Group gives tailored conclude-to-conclude remedies for all industries in 71 nations. A pioneer in decarbonization expert services and products, Atos is dedicated to a secure and decarbonized digital for its clientele. Atos operates underneath the manufacturers Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), stated on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

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Photograph caption: from left to appropriate – Branko Zebec, Assistant Director of IZUM Dr Simona Kustec, Minister of Education and learning, Science and Activity Janez Janša, Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia and Dr Aleš Bošnjak Director of IZUM.