Joliot-Curie: the most powerful supercomputer dedicated to research in France

Paris, June 29, 2020

Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, and GENCI, the French nationwide significant-efficiency computing firm, and the CEA, expose that Joliot-Curie supercomputer with its 22 petaflop/s peak computing energy is the most potent supercomputer in France committed to educational and industrial open investigate, and the 3rd most potent investigate computer in Europe, according to the TOP500 ranking revealed on 22 June 2020. This supercomputer is derived from the co-structure operate carried out by the CEA with Atos for more than twenty several years*, and which built it possible to determine existing energy computing architectures. The Joliot-Curie supercomputer ranks in thirty fourth placement in the TOP500 and is powered by Atos’ BullSequana XH2000 platform and the most current AMD Rome processors.

Nearly a person calendar year on from its inauguration, Joliot-Curie is now running at entire pace for the last 6 months and has been extensively applied in more than a dozen educational and industrial fields these as climate, astrophysics, geophysics, significant fidelity combustion, biology, molecular dynamics and material homes, genome and neuroscience fields.

Operated at the CEA’s Incredibly Big Computing Centre (TGCC), this incredible equipment has demonstrated its abilities to present urgent computing accessibility to huge scale HPC methods in the fight against COVID-19 much less than 2 months after becoming unveiled in output, thanks also to sturdy assist offered by CEA professionals who set up the important environment to work and put up-method successfully COVID-19 simulations.

As aspect of the PRACE (Partnership for Sophisticated Computing in Europe) COVID-19 Quick Observe get in touch with and the nationwide urgent COVID-19 calls from GENCI, European scientists have becoming using French supercomputer methods to energy 36 COVID-19 projects with 18 of these jogging on Joliot-Curie, supplying scientific effects applied to accelerate and assist general public conclusion-producing for the fight against Covid-19 and pace up the enhancement of a remedy primarily based on an ideal expertise of the virus.

Considering the fact that January 2020, Joliot-Curie now features an in depth computing energy with more than 440,000 significant efficiency x86 cores in just about 5000 of HPC nodes. It is the initially supercomputer put in around the globe with AMD EPYC™ 7H12 sequence processors integrated in Atos’ most current BullSequana XH2000, which capabilities DLC (Direct Liquid Cooling) for an optimized electrical power-effective platform.

Stephane Requena, CTO of GENCI, said: “With its modular and well balanced architecture, Joliot-Curie is a person of the most-applied systems in the PRACE European HPC infrastructure we are definitely proud to be in a position to supply these computing energy to European researchers, in specific in the fight against COVID-19”.

Helene Bringer, Director Huge Knowledge & HPC at Atos in France, extra: “Just about every new Top500 ranking underlines the immediate tempo of innovation in the field of High General performance Computing. With 6 supercomputers, which include Joliot Curie, we are proud to be ranked among the the major 50 leaders in the world thanks to our very significant-efficiency BullSequana engineering, and to add to industrial and scientific competitiveness in Europe.”

Christine Ménaché, Head of the CEA’s Incredibly Big Computing Centre (TGCC) said: “All the TGCC groups have been mobilized to assist people in their use of this new AMD-Rome partition in Joliot-Curie, significantly all those concerned in projects against COVID-19. The CEA is proud to be in a position to assist French and European investigate thanks to its abilities made in the definition of computer centre architectures, the implementation and use of supercomputers and their environment, notably through Joliot-Curie“.

The AMD partition of Joliot-Curie was funded less than the European task PPI4HPC (H2020-754271), which aims to obtain modern computing and storage options, through a joint procurement coordinated by GENCI, for leading HPC facilities CEA/GENCI, CINECA (Italy), JUELICH (Germany) and BSC (Spain).

Moreover, GENCI, CEA and Atos are proud to announce the acquisition of a new state-of-the-artwork ARM A64FX Fujitsu partition less than PPI4HPC to further more boost the abilities of the Joliot-Curie equipment and assist setting up the route to Exascale** for European and French researchers.

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About Atos
Atos is a global leader in digital transformation with a hundred and ten,000 employees in 73 countries and annual profits of € 12 billion. European variety a person in Cloud, Cybersecurity and High-General performance Computing, the Team gives finish-to-finish Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Huge Knowledge, Enterprise Applications and Digital Place of work options. The Team is the All over the world Data Engineering Partner for the Olympic & Paralympic Online games and operates less than the models Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), listed on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.
The reason of Atos is to support structure the long term of the info place. Its abilities and services assist the enhancement of expertise, schooling and investigate in a multicultural strategy and add to the enhancement of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the world, the Team allows its consumers and employees, and associates of societies at huge to dwell, operate and develop sustainably, in a protected and secure info place.

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About GENCI
GENCI is a civil society less than French legislation, 49% owned by the Condition represented by the Ministère de de l’Enseignement Supérieur de la Recherche et de l’Innovation (MESRI), twenty% by CEA, twenty% by CNRS, ten% by the Universities represented by the Conférence des Présidents d’Universités and one% by Inria. Produced in 2007 by the French general public authorities, GENCI is aimed at placing France among the the leading countries inside of Europe and on the international phase in HPC and AI. In this context, GENCI has the missions to carry out the French nationwide tactic by equipping with HPC and large details storage methods the a few nationwide computing centres in buy to assist scientific open investigate, to add setting up an European integrated HPC ecosystem and to market AI, numerical simulation and HPC inside of the educational and industrial investigate communities.
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About CEA
The CEA is a French general public investigate organisation serving market, specialising in four key places: electrical power changeover and reduced-carbon energies, digital transformation, health and fitness and biotechnologies, defence and protection. It carries out the missions entrusted to it by the French govt. With its twenty,000 employees and 9 investigate centres geared up with very huge infrastructures, the CEA depends on elementary investigate of excellence. It is concerned in nationwide, European and international projects with a wide vary of educational and industrial partners. The CEA ranks as the leading investigate organisation submitting patents in France and Europe according to the Clarivate ranking (2019).