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

Paris, France Ghent, Belgium – 24 June 2020

Atos, a worldwide chief in digital transformation, announces that it has signed a six-calendar year contract for a worth of in excess of 10 Million Euro with Ghent College (UGent) to produce the upcoming Tier1 supercomputer for the Flemish Supercomputer Heart VSC. This supercomputer will help scientists from academic study establishments, governing administration and field to speed up time-consuming calculations and clear up advanced computational issues: from modeling temperature and weather improve to supporting the improvement of renewable vitality and accelerating the research for new drugs. Most appreciably, supercomputers have not too long ago been instrumental in study combatting COVID-19, such as in Flanders.

Antoine Kerrinckx, CEO at Atos in Belux: “Technological know-how is getting progressively critical in our culture. We imagine it is critical that scientists have the right equipment and infrastructure at their disposal. We are delighted to contribute to the progress of science and technology with the shipping of our Atos supercomputer.”

Atos will equip the new Tier1 supercomputer with BullSequana XH2000 technology and its BullSequana X Supercomputer Suite as the program stack. This state-of-the-art program natural environment for High Overall performance Computing and AI will enable end-people to create and run the crucial program codes that are employed all over the varied study and improvement fields within just the VSC, these kinds of as components design, engineering, temperature/weather modeling and bioinformatics.

This will be the third Tier1 supercomputer that the VSC installs in Flanders. The initially 1 ‘muk’ was set up at Ghent College in 2012, succeeded by ‘BrENIAC’ at KU Leuven in 2016. Now, in 2020, a new Tier1 supercomputer will again be set up at the Ghent College infrastructure hub of the Flemish Supercomputer Heart VSC. The VSC is a partnership involving the five Flemish universities and is managed by the Research Fund – Flanders (FWO). VSC encourages the use of scientific and specialized computing in the Flemish academic and industrial landscape, giving focused infrastructure, schooling and providers. Funding is supplied by the Flemish governing administration, section of Economic climate, Science and Innovation.

Hilde Crevits, Flemish Minister for Economic climate, Science and Innovation reported: “One of the things that the COVID-19 pandemic has evidently exemplified is that condition-of-the-artwork infrastructure, such as supercomputers, are crucial to enable strong study and improvement in Flanders. I am proud that our constant infrastructure investments help progress Flemish pioneering capabilities in R&D.”

The new supercomputer is scheduled for shipping at Ghent College in This autumn 2020. A even more enlargement of this process is planned for 2022.

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Specialized specifics

The configuration consists of five racks with the subsequent features:
• ninety eight BullSequana X2410 blades (294 nodes), each individual node geared up with the AMD Rome 7H12 CPUs and 256GB of RAM (16GB*sixteen@3200MHz dims)
• fourteen BullSequana X2410 blades (forty two nodes), each individual node geared up with the AMD Rome 7H12 CPUs and 512GB of RAM (32GB*sixteen@3200MHz dims)
• twenty BullSequana X2415 blades geared up with the new Nvidia RedStone board embedding the Nvidia A100-40 GPUs (x4)
• DDN multi-tier EXAScaler remedy with a Hybrid ES7990X and all flash SFA200NVX to produce in excess of a hundred TB of accelerated flash functionality and four PB of very long expression storage.

About Atos
Atos is a worldwide chief in digital transformation with 110,000 staff in seventy three countries and annual profits of € twelve billion. European selection 1 in Cloud, Cybersecurity and High-Overall performance Computing, the Team delivers end-to-end Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Huge Info, Small business Programs and Digital Workplace alternatives. The Team is the Throughout the world Details Technological know-how Husband or wife for the Olympic & Paralympic Game titles and operates less than the manufacturers Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), shown on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The reason of Atos is to help design the long run of the details room. Its know-how and providers assistance the improvement of expertise, instruction and study in a multicultural strategy and contribute to the improvement of scientific and technological excellence. Across the globe, the Team enables its shoppers and staff, and associates of societies at large to live, function and create sustainably, in a safe and sound and secure details room.

About VSC
The Flemish Supercomputer Heart (Vlaams Supercomputer Centrum – VSC) is a partnership involving the five Flemish universities and their college associations. This consortium delivers jointly knowhow in scientific and specialized computing (such as significant functionality computing, significant throughput computing, cloud computing and details processing) in Flanders, and houses 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 specialized computing in the Flemish academic and industrial landscape. To this end, it delivers infrastructure, schooling and providers. In addition, VSC functions as a lever to encourage the importance of scientific and specialized computing and its added worth to culture.

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