Atos and Graphcore partner to deliver advanced AI HPC solutions worldwide

Paris (France) and Bristol (British isles) – July 22, 2021

Atos and Graphcore right now announce that they have signed a partnership to speed up performance and innovation in Artificial Intelligence (AI) by integrating Graphcore’s advanced IPU compute techniques into Atos’ not too long ago released ThinkAI supplying to convey AI higher-performance methods to customers worldwide.

This partnership will mutually profit both equally parties. Atos’ extended-standing place as a European chief in higher-performance computing (HPC) and dependable advisor, service provider and integrator of HPC methods at scale will give Graphcore accessibility to a multitude of new customers, sectors and geographies. Graphcore in convert will operate with Atos globally to increase its worldwide get to by focusing on substantial corporate organization in sectors including finance, health care, telecoms and customer world wide web as well as nationwide labs and universities concentrated on scientific study, which are swiftly establishing their AI abilities.

ThinkAI delivers together Atos’ AI business consultancy skills – with its experts at the AtosCenter of Excellence in Innovative Computing – with its electronic security abilities and its computer software, this kind of as Atos HPC Application Suites, to empower corporations to speed up time to AI operationalization and industrialization.

Graphcore, the British isles-headquartered maker of the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), plays a major position in Atos’ ThinkAI supplying, which is concentrated on the twin objectives of accelerating pure artificial intelligence programs and augmenting traditional HPC simulation with AI. Graphcore’s IPU-POD techniques for scale-up datacentre computing will be an integral aspect of ThinkAI.

Even right before today’s formal launch of the partnership, the two providers welcomed their to start with key joint shopper, just one of the major cloud suppliers in South Korea, which will be making use of Graphcore techniques in substantial-scale AI cloud datacenters, in a deal facilitated by Atos.

ThinkAI represents a huge commitment to the upcoming of artificial intelligence by just one of the world’s most dependable technological innovation providers. For Atos to have place Graphcore as a essential aspect of its technique says a terrific deal about the maturity of our components and computer software, and the potential of our techniques to deliver on shopper requirements,” explained Fabrice Moizan, GM and SVP Revenue EMEAI and Asia Pacific at Graphcore.

Agnès Boudot, Senior Vice President, Head of HPC & Quantum at Atos explained: “With ThinkAI, we’re producing it feasible for corporations from any market to obtain breakthroughs with AI. Graphcore’s IPU components and Poplar® computer software is opening up new prospects for innovators to explore the prospective of AI for their corporations, complemented with our market-tailored AI business consultancy, electronic security abilities and computer software, we’re thrilled to be orchestrating these slicing-edge technologies in our ThinkAI resolution.”

 

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About Atos

Atos is a worldwide chief in electronic transformation with one zero five,000 employees and annual revenue of in excess of € 11 billion. European number just one in cybersecurity, cloud and higher performance computing, the Group provides tailored stop-to-stop methods for all industries in 71 international locations. A pioneer in decarbonization expert services and solutions, Atos is committed to a secure and decarbonized electronic for its purchasers. Atos operates beneath the makes Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), shown on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.

The purpose of Atos is to enable design and style the upcoming of the info room. Its skills and expert services assist the development of awareness, education and learning and study in a multicultural solution and lead to the development of scientific and technological excellence. Across the planet, the Group permits its customers and employees, and users of societies at substantial to live, operate and produce sustainably, in a secure and secure info room.

About Graphcore

Graphcore is the inventor of the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), the world’s most advanced microprocessor, especially made for the requirements of recent and subsequent-technology artificial intelligence workloads.  

Graphcore’s IPU-POD datacenter techniques, for scale up and scale out AI compute, give the potential to operate substantial types across many IPUs, or to share the compute resource amongst various buyers and workloads.

Since its founding in 2016, Graphcore has raised additional than $730 million in funding.  

Buyers include things like Sequoia Funds, Microsoft, Dell, Samsung, BMW iVentures, Robert Bosch Undertaking Funds, as well as major AI innovators including Demis Hassabis (Deepmind), Pieter Abbeel (UC Berkeley), and Zoubin Ghahramani (Google Brain).

Extra info can be identified at https://www.graphcore.ai 

 

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Atos: Laura Fau | [email protected] | +33 six 73 sixty four 04 eighteen | @laurajanefau

Graphcore: Iain Mackenzie | [email protected] | +447977 015577