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Atos and ECMWF launch Center of Excellence in Weather & Climate Modelling to support researchers with HPC, AI and quantum capabilities

London and Reading through, Uk Paris, France Bologna, Italy – Oct 5 2020

Atos, a global chief in electronic transformation, and  the European Centre for Medium-Range Temperature Forecasts (ECMWF), now announce a new Centre of Excellence in HPC, AI and Quantum computing for Temperature & Local weather. The Centre will be based mostly at ECMWF’s headquarters in Reading through, Uk, where by it will give their staff of intercontinental researchers with obtain to emerging AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Quantum Computing systems and know-how, and reward from ECMWF’s higher-efficiency computing (HPC) resources to be before long situated in Bologna, Italy. The aim is to support ECMWF experts in their operate on medium and lengthy-vary weather forecasting and prediction and global local weather modelling.

Employing these latest developments in technologies, ECMWF researchers will be equipped to boost the ability to forecast the occurrence and intensity of excessive weather situations and other new weather phenomena activated by local weather transform. Geared up with Atos’ latest BullSequana supercomputer, the Centre of Excellence will also be supported by Atos authorities and technologies companions who will collaborate immediately with ECMWF investigation experts in purchase to develop new procedures to support subsequent-generation weather forecasting, assistance boost local weather and weather discovery and innovation, and assistance get ready ECMWF for long run HPC and data handling architectures.

Bringing with each other entire world-course authorities in computing, computational science and Earth program science is important to continuing to advance our medium- and lengthy-vary weather forecasting. The Centre builds on a former prosperous collaboration with Atos and will play a important job in helping us to boost and reliably predict the occurrence and intensity of excessive weather situations and other situations involved with local weather transform appreciably in advance of time,” said Dr Florence Rabier, Director General at ECMWF. “Technological innovation will play a important job in supporting our authorities in the field and enabling companions in our 34 Member and Co-operating States throughout Europe to proceed to shield existence and assets in their nations.”

Pierre Barnabé, Senior Govt Vice-President, Head of Massive Info & Cybersecurity at Atos said: We are thrilled to create this Centre of Excellence with each other with ECMWF, where by researchers will be equipped to take a look at the distinctive usages of HPC and AI via proof of thought production, as perfectly as innovation workshops, programs and conferences. Significant-efficiency Computing assisted by artificial intelligence retains enormous possible for the local weather and weather. It also introduces new solutions and procedures that are only just starting to be accessible.”

As part of the new Centre of Excellence, one of the original projects will be to develop Equipment finding out remedies for apps throughout the numerical weather prediction workflow that are custom-made to the requires of Earth program modelling. A second challenge will glimpse to develop a CPU-GPU-based mostly variation of ECMWF’s Built-in Forecasting Program (IFS) and the wave product WAM, and to get ready the ECMWF item-generation pipeline and data-centric workflows for new systems.

As part of the Atos Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Highly developed Computing, the Temperature & Local weather CoE is Atos’ second CoE committed to HPC, AI and quantum systems which is concentrated on a scientific area. The initially staying released on 8 July, with each other with the Wellcome Genome Campus and which is concentrated on Existence Sciences.

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Technical Particulars

The investigation will be driven by ECMWF’s new Atos BullSequana XH2000 supercomputer, one of the most highly effective meteorological supercomputers in the entire world. The program is equipped with BullSequana X2415 blades, using NVIDIA’s subsequent-generation graphics processing unit architecture, the NVIDIA® A100 Tensor Main GPU, and is supported by Atos Codex AI Suite, the most detailed AI software program suite on the market place. This will give innovative GPU computing and AI capacity to permit ECMWF researchers to pace-up processing situations on the most advanced data, enabling them to acquire insights speedier, working with the ability of deep finding out and analytics.

The Centre of Excellence will also have obtain to Atos’ Quantum Mastering Equipment (QLM), the most innovative Quantum Computing Simulator accessible now, to take a look at how quantum computing might influence weather and local weather prediction in the long run. The Centre will also be supported by pro team from AMD, Mellanox, Nvidia and DDN, making it possible for it to take a look at accelerated computing procedures as perfectly as difficulties related to storage and data obtain.

About Atos

Atos is a global chief in electronic transformation with 110,000 personnel in seventy three nations and yearly income of € twelve billion. European amount one in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Significant-General performance Computing, the Group gives end-to-end Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Massive Info, Enterprise Programs and Electronic Place of work remedies. In the Uk & Ireland Atos provides small business technologies remedies for some of the country’s premier public and non-public sector organisations The Group is the Worldwide Info Technological innovation Husband or wife for the Olympic & Paralympic Game titles and operates beneath the makes Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), detailed on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.

The function of Atos is to assistance layout the long run of the information space. Its know-how and services support the progress of understanding, training and investigation in a multicultural method and lead to the progress of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the entire world, the Group allows its customers and personnel, and customers of societies at substantial to dwell, operate and develop sustainably, in a harmless and secure information space.

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About ECMWF

Headquartered in Reading through in the Uk, and with its data centre in Bologna, Italy, ECMWF is an impartial intergovernmental group supported by 34 Member and Co-operating States throughout Europe and retains the premier archive of numerical weather prediction data in the entire world. Its key mission is to give its users with numerical weather predictions covering medium to lengthy ranges. About the earlier few yrs, ECMWF has also de
veloped a solid partnership with the EU and is an entrusted entity for the implementation and operation of the Local weather Change and Atmosphere Monitoring Products and services of the ground-breaking EU Copernicus Programme.

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