Atos establishes Life Sciences Centre of Excellence to support researchers worldwide

London, United kingdom Paris, France – July 8 2020

Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, in agreement with the Wellcome Genome Campus, in Cambridgeshire, United kingdom, currently announces its global HPC, AI & Quantum Lifetime Sciences Centre of Excellence in get to offer organisations on Campus, and global genome and bio-details institutes around the globe, access to rising HPC, AI & Quantum technologies.

The Atos Lifetime Sciences Centre of Excellence will complement the present Campus compute services with access to primary-edge technologies, these types of as Quantum, Superior Efficiency Computing and AI, supported by Atos’ products and solutions, products and services and experience in these sectors. Atos experts will collaborate right with genome and biological details study experts to aid improve Lifetime Sciences discovery and innovation.

“I am delighted that Atos is joining our Campus neighborhood, providing higher perception into biodata at outstanding speeds and efficacy will lead to ground breaking new methodologies and products and solutions, as nicely as decreasing the study-to-merchandise enhancement journey creating a considerable optimistic effect for the several locations of existence sciences”, stated Dr Julia Wilson, Associate Director, Wellcome Genome Campus.

 “With considerable enhancement plans in place Atos will speedily turn out to be a precious partner within our Campus neighborhood. Now is the time to electric power our study via the utilized use of ground breaking technological know-how that could tremendously progress biodata study. This will lead to higher opportunities to translate study into tangible societal benefits”, added Dr Jo Mills, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Centre Manager, Wellcome Genome Campus.

In this Centre, researchers and technologists around the globe will discover the diverse usages of technologies these types of as Quantum, Superior Efficiency Computing and AI via a wide assortment of activities these types of as proof of idea manufacturing, innovation workshops, programs and conferences.

Atos Quantum Mastering Device, the world’s greatest-performing commercially out there quantum simulator, is currently aiding the study assessment capability of organizations like Bayer in Germany, the Centre of Computation  Research and Technological know-how (CCRT) at the CEA in France, The Hartree Centre in United kingdom and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US.

Researchers will also be in a position to gain from Atos’ potent BullSequana X supercomputers, which provide large-overall performance computing electric power to assistance researchers reach success a lot quicker. They are staying made use of currently across the globe to assistance the present-day battle in opposition to Covid-19.

Pierre Barnabé, Senior Executive Vice-President, Head of Major Knowledge & Cybersecurity at Atos, stated: “We are delighted to establish the Centre, as the possible for collaborative option with Lifetime Sciences institutes globally is tremendous. Quantum, Superior Efficiency Computing as nicely as edge computing assisted by artificial intelligence hold fascinating, transformative possible for the existence sciences sector, and we are seeking forward to applying these in actual planet eventualities by combining study experience with our technological experience to unlock option.”

The Centre is currently running remotely and is supplying assistance to researchers around the globe learning many diverse elements of Covid-19 these types of as characterizing the construction of SARS-CoV-two to superior understand its mechanisms of infection or modelling the distribute of the disease by utilizing mathematical solutions.

In addition, two demos are staying designed which unlock the benefit of HPC and AI to model cardiovascular anomalies and to speed up the interpretation of health care procedures. These will be showcased as soon as the Centre opens its doors.