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Ghent University engages Atos to build third Tier1 VSC supercomputer supporting research in Flanders

Paris, France Ghent, Belgium – 24 June 2020

Atos, a world wide chief in electronic transformation, announces that it has signed a six-12 months agreement for a worth of in excess of ten Million Euro with Ghent College (UGent) to provide the up coming Tier1 supercomputer for the Flemish Supercomputer Heart VSC. This supercomputer will aid researchers from tutorial study institutions, federal government and business to pace up time-consuming calculations and remedy intricate computational problems: from modeling climate and local climate modify to supporting the improvement of renewable strength and accelerating the look for for new medicine. Most drastically, supercomputers have not too long ago been instrumental in study combatting COVID-19, together with in Flanders.

Antoine Kerrinckx, CEO at Atos in Belux: “Technologies is turning into ever more crucial in our modern society. We imagine it can be crucial that researchers have the proper applications and infrastructure at their disposal. We are delighted to contribute to the progress of science and technological innovation with the supply of our Atos supercomputer.”

Atos will equip the new Tier1 supercomputer with BullSequana XH2000 technological innovation and its BullSequana X Supercomputer Suite as the software stack. This superior software ecosystem for Large Overall performance Computing and AI will enable finish-buyers to acquire and run the very important software codes that are employed in the course of the varied study and improvement fields in just the VSC, these kinds of as materials style and design, engineering, climate/local climate modeling and bioinformatics.

This will be the 3rd Tier1 supercomputer that the VSC installs in Flanders. The initial a person ‘muk’ was put in at Ghent College in 2012, succeeded by ‘BrENIAC’ at KU Leuven in 2016. Now, in 2020, a new Tier1 supercomputer will once again be put in at the Ghent College infrastructure hub of the Flemish Supercomputer Heart VSC. The VSC is a partnership amongst the 5 Flemish universities and is managed by the Research Fund – Flanders (FWO). VSC encourages the use of scientific and technical computing in the Flemish tutorial and industrial landscape, featuring devoted infrastructure, teaching and providers. Funding is provided by the Flemish federal government, division of Financial system, Science and Innovation.

Hilde Crevits, Flemish Minister for Financial system, Science and Innovation stated: “One of the things that the COVID-19 pandemic has obviously exemplified is that state-of-the-art infrastructure, together with supercomputers, are essential to enable sturdy study and improvement in Flanders. I am happy that our constant infrastructure investments aid advance Flemish groundbreaking capabilities in R&D.”

The new supercomputer is scheduled for supply at Ghent College in Q4 2020. A more expansion of this program is prepared for 2022.

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Complex information

The configuration is made up of 5 racks with the adhering to components:
• 98 BullSequana X2410 blades (294 nodes), just about every node outfitted with the AMD Rome 7H12 CPUs and 256GB of RAM (16GB*16@3200MHz dims)
• 14 BullSequana X2410 blades (forty two nodes), just about every node outfitted with the AMD Rome 7H12 CPUs and 512GB of RAM (32GB*16@3200MHz dims)
• twenty BullSequana X2415 blades outfitted with the new Nvidia RedStone board embedding the Nvidia A100-40 GPUs (x4)
• DDN multi-tier EXAScaler option with a Hybrid ES7990X and all flash SFA200NVX to provide in excess of 100 TB of accelerated flash performance and four PB of lengthy time period storage.

About Atos
Atos is a world wide chief in electronic transformation with 110,000 staff in seventy three nations and yearly profits of € twelve billion. European selection a person in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Large-Overall performance Computing, the Team gives finish-to-finish Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Huge Information, Business enterprise Purposes and Electronic Workplace options. The Team is the Around the globe Facts Technologies Companion for the Olympic & Paralympic Game titles and operates below the brand names Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), stated on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.

The objective of Atos is to aid style and design the future of the facts place. Its experience and providers help the improvement of awareness, instruction and study in a multicultural strategy and contribute to the improvement of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the earth, the Team allows its buyers and staff, and members of societies at large to live, operate and acquire sustainably, in a safe and protected facts place.

Press contacts Atos:
Benelux: Lise Kleijn | [email protected] | +31 six 831 69 358 |
International: Laura Fau | [email protected] | +33 six seventy three 64 04 18 | @laurajanefau

About VSC
The Flemish Supercomputer Heart (Vlaams Supercomputer Centrum – VSC) is a partnership amongst the 5 Flemish universities and their university associations. This consortium brings collectively knowhow in scientific and technical computing (together with superior performance computing, superior throughput computing, cloud computing and knowledge processing) in Flanders, and residences infrastructure in four hubs: the datacenters of the universities of Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent and Leuven. The VSC is managed by the Research Fund – Flanders (FWO).

The VSC encourages the use of scientific and technical computing in the Flemish tutorial and industrial landscape. To this finish, it gives infrastructure, teaching and providers. In addition, VSC acts as a lever to promote the significance of scientific and technical computing and its additional worth to modern society.

Press get hold of Ghent College:
Ewald Pauwels | [email protected] | +32 9 264 4716 |