Atos mobilizes technological expertise to fight Covid-19

Paris, 28 April 2020

Atos, a world chief in electronic transformation, delivers its technologies leadership, competencies and innovation methods to the world combat versus Covid-19. By various direct and associate-led initiatives across the world, Atos is engaged on a number of fronts, supplying solutions and computing power to assistance include the distribute of the virus, support the scientific neighborhood, speed up vaccine exploration and assure organization continuity for vital things to do.

“An helpful reaction to COVID-19 demands world action and collaboration involving general public and personal actors. We are very pleased to be encouraging individuals working intensively on the frontline in an energy to counteract the pandemic by sharing our methods and solutions. We are now in uncharted territory, but Atos’ determination and willingness to assistance citizens are living and function sustainably and confidently in a transforming electronic landscape for the duration of the pandemic and in the extended phrase, continue to be intact,” suggests Elie Girard, Atos CEO.

 

Aiding nearby authorities include the distribute of the virus

The raising mobility of the populace helps make containment of illnesses more durable and the need to have to act rapidly and successfully is necessary at each and every degree.

Leveraging its general public sector and healthcare working experience, Atos has created EpiSYS, an Epidemic Administration Process (EMS) which provides healthcare professionals a precise overview of an epidemiological circumstance by storing and handling all individual info and info connected to the virus, like tracking and tracing individual incident stories, in authentic-time. EpiSYS was adopted in Austria in early March to assistance control the distribute of Covid-19 and just take strategic conclusions in the present-day crisis.

Mobilizing supercomputers and equipment understanding to velocity up exploration

Atos’ superior-efficiency personal computers can depend hundreds of occasions more quickly than typical personal computers. Whether or not they are made use of for simulation, to develop predictive models, review the development of the disease or create new treatment plans, these strong devices are performing quite demanding calculations that confirm to be necessary in today’s race versus the clock.

Atos’ supercomputers are at function close to the entire world. Two of the most strong supercomputers in France, Joliot-Curie, operated  at  the CEA’s  supercomputing  center  (TGCC),  and  Occigen,  operated  at  CPU’s supercomputing centre (CINES), are supplying urgent computing entry to large laptop methods to European exploration teams associated in the combat versus COVID-19.

In the United kingdom, Atos’ BullSequana supercomputer at the Hartree Centre is supplying computing power to operate simulations of Covid-19 protein conduct. In addition, the JADE nationwide AI supercomputing facility presented and managed by Atos is becoming made use of by United kingdom researchers from the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Southampton working in the area of biomolecular simulations. This supercomputer, owned by Oxford University and hosted at the Hartree Centre, component of the Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC), contributes toward efforts in the growth of a vaccine versus SARS-COV2, anti-viral drugs and to superior realize the molecular architecture of the virus and how it features.

In the same way, Atos’ supercomputers in Brazil and the Czech Republic are also driving exploration close to Covid-19.

 

Furnishing organization continuity with harmless and versatile electronic environments

Atos’ technologies also engage in a vital purpose in preserving organization continuity amid the pandemic. To solution the problems that businesses are going through with house workplace becoming the norm, Atos has crafted and tailored a extensive office products and services offering and delivers conclude-to-conclude solutions, from distant management to wi-fi technologies, while making certain the stability of any enterprise atmosphere.

It is also necessary to assure federal government and general public authorities are ready to keep on to offer simple daily wants for each and every citizen’s daily life. In the past months, Atos has been ready to promise service continuity with QoS (Quality of Assistance) for power utilities and h2o provides, like Scottish H2o, in several countries many thanks to an unwavering determination and expertise in these industries.

 

Sharing our info science competencies with the exploration neighborhood

Atos is using component in the ‘Covid–19 Dataset Challenge’, an intercontinental competition launched by the White Home, asking AI researchers to use equipment understanding tools and methods to assistance present solution to vital thoughts about the disease. Atos has a dedicated crew of 10 professionals working on the job.