Atos delivers BullSequana X410 supercomputer to Swansea University

Swansea (Wales), London (United kingdom), Paris (France), March 10 2021

Atos these days announced that it has signed a agreement with Swansea University to deploy its BullSequana X410 supercomputer, constructed on the new NVIDIA A100 Tensor Main GPU architecture and NVIDIA Mellanox HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand networking, which will allow lecturers in Swansea and across Wales to drive floor-breaking research primarily based on sophisticated equipment learning and deep learning algorithms.

The biggest NVIDIA A100 deployments inside of Wales, this significant-overall performance supercomputer types element of Atos’ existing romance with Supercomputing Wales – an Atos and Dell EMC supercomputing Centre of Excellence partly funded by the European Regional Improvement Fund (ERDF) by means of the Welsh Authorities.

Aspect of the ‘AccelerateAI’ initiative, also funded by the European Regional Improvement Fund (ERDF) by means of the Welsh Authorities, this GPU-accelerated supercomputer will allow research teams with concentrations in mathematics, engineering, science and drugs across Wales to produce improvements in cutting-edge AI research and in industrial purposes.

The NVIDIA A100 Tensor Main GPUs installed inside of the BullSequana X410 supercomputer are really parallel processors developed to strengthen computing. The integration of up to 8 GPUs inside of a 2U sort variable locations this technique at the forefront of today’s accelerated computing alternatives, in conditions of compute density, overall performance and value-performance. The supercomputer will also leverage NVIDIA Mellanox HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand’s rapid information during, particularly small latency, and good In-Network Computing engines, enabling point out-of-the-artwork overall performance for a wide assortment of HPC and AI purposes that will even further drive Swansea University’s research.

The AI supercomputer will be primarily based at Swansea University’s power-efficient Bay Facts Centre, exactly where Atos will maintain the products and operate closely with lecturers to assistance tackle their precise research wants.

Agnès Boudot, Senior Vice President, Head of HPC & Quantum at Atos, mentioned: “The BullSequana will present scientists across Wales with point out-of-the-artwork hardware to allow new scientific improvements on equipment learning and deep learning algorithms. As the first massive-scale deployment of the NVIDIA A100 architecture, we consider this is an interesting milestone for supercomputing-enabled research in Wales, supporting its ambition to be a planet leader in significant-overall performance computing as element of the Supercomputing Wales undertaking.”

Professor Biagio Lucini, Director of the Swansea Academy of Highly developed Computing at Swansea University, mentioned: “We are delighted that the shipping and delivery of this cutting-edge, AI BullSequana X410 supercomputer will empower lecturers across Wales to drive forward perhaps floor-breaking discoveries. Building on the results of the Supercomputing Wales undertaking, this really progressive products will enhance how AI is implemented into marketplace and used to clear up research difficulties, although strengthening Wales’ posture as a leading supercomputing hub.”

“HPC and AI have become the basis on which we know the alternatives to the world’s most complex and hard difficulties,“ mentioned Rod Evans, EMEA Director for Supercomputing, Bigger Schooling and AI at NVIDIA. “That is why NVIDIA has constructed the world’s most robust and entire AI supercomputing system that provides the balance and overall performance necessary for HPC and AI scientists.”

Researchers from other Universities inside of the Supercomputing Wales consortium – like Cardiff, Aberystwyth and Bangor – will have accessibility to the significant-overall performance technique, helping to help the country’s ambition to compete globally for research and innovation projects. In collaboration with area SMEs, the undertaking will also accelerate adoption of AI strategies in Welsh marketplace.

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