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Atos boosts supercomputing power by 10 for Spanish State Meteorological Agency AEMET

Paris (France), Madrid (Spain), February 23, 2021

Atos announces that it has been picked by the Spanish Point out Meteorological Company (AEMET) to supply and put in its computing and storage engineering, as a result of the tender “Contracting of Provide as a result of leasing with no the alternative to buy a Supercomputing Method for the AEMET”. Based mostly on the BullSequana supercomputing architecture from Atos, the new supercomputer will supply pretty much 10 instances additional computing capability than the recent 1 which was put in in the 2014.

This new supercomputer will boost and develop AEMET’s recent computing abilities to increase study in distinctive places such as weather forecasting, weather transform, wave prediction and assistance its collaboration with worldwide companies. Additionally, it supports AEMET meet up with the new strategic, technological and services provision difficulties, such as planning, giving and disseminating meteorological facts and forecasts, in its 2019-21 Motion Prepare, therefore consolidating its presence as 1 of the major meteorological centers in Europe.

The availability of the new substantial-general performance procedure will not only permit for bigger computing capability and a reduction in the time needed for the execution of numerical types, but it will also allow us to enhance assets, automate processes and set in place complete procedures, to endorse a additional sustainable architecture.” stated Raúl Hilara, Telematics Coordinator of the Point out Meteorological Company at AEMET.

The fact that AEMET has renewed their self esteem in our technological abilities is testomony to our abilities and we are proud that Atos will continue on to be their reference engineering company in supercomputing, accompanying them in the new difficulties of weather forecasting and weather transform. This new good results strengthens our commitment as a European chief in the meteorology sector. ” stated José Camacho, director of HPC & Quantum computing of Atos in Iberia.

This venture will consist of the set up of two clusters equipped with additional than 50,000 cores based on AMD EPYC processor engineering, with a capability five.nine PB of gross storage, joined with a lower latency interconnect community of 200 Gbits / sec.

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About Atos

Atos is a global chief in digital transformation with one hundred and five,000 employees and annual profits of more than € eleven billion. European range 1 in cybersecurity, cloud and substantial-general performance computing, the Group delivers tailor-made end-to-end alternatives for all industries in 71 international locations. A pioneer in decarbonization providers and goods, Atos is fully commited to a secure and decarbonized digital for its clientele. Atos operates less than the manufacturers Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), stated on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.

The reason of Atos is to aid structure the upcoming of the facts house. Its abilities and providers assistance the progress of know-how, education and study in a multicultural method and add to the progress of scientific and technological excellence. Across the earth, the Group allows its customers and employees, and associates of societies at big to stay, operate and build sustainably, in a risk-free and secure facts house.

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