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

Paris, France Ghent, Belgium – 24 June 2020

Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, announces that it has signed a six-yr agreement for a price of more than ten Million Euro with Ghent College (UGent) to supply the following Tier1 supercomputer for the Flemish Supercomputer Center VSC. This supercomputer will assist researchers from tutorial investigation establishments, federal government and marketplace to speed up time-consuming calculations and remedy intricate computational complications: from modeling temperature and climate modify to supporting the improvement of renewable electrical power and accelerating the look for for new medication. Most noticeably, supercomputers have just lately been instrumental in investigation combatting COVID-19, together with in Flanders.

Antoine Kerrinckx, CEO at Atos in Belux: “Technology is turning out to be progressively critical in our society. We assume it truly is critical that researchers have the ideal instruments and infrastructure at their disposal. We are delighted to contribute to the development of science and technological innovation with the delivery of our Atos supercomputer.”

Atos will equip the new Tier1 supercomputer with BullSequana XH2000 technological innovation and its BullSequana X Supercomputer Suite as the application stack. This highly developed application setting for High Functionality Computing and AI will empower conclude-consumers to produce and operate the crucial application codes that are employed in the course of the varied investigation and improvement fields inside the VSC, this kind of as resources layout, engineering, temperature/climate modeling and bioinformatics.

This will be the 3rd Tier1 supercomputer that the VSC installs in Flanders. The to start with 1 ‘muk’ was mounted at Ghent College in 2012, succeeded by ‘BrENIAC’ at KU Leuven in 2016. Now, in 2020, a new Tier1 supercomputer will all over again be mounted at the Ghent College infrastructure hub of the Flemish Supercomputer Center VSC. The VSC is a partnership amongst the 5 Flemish universities and is managed by the Analysis Fund – Flanders (FWO). VSC encourages the use of scientific and complex computing in the Flemish tutorial and industrial landscape, providing devoted infrastructure, schooling and providers. Funding is delivered by the Flemish federal government, section of Overall economy, Science and Innovation.

Hilde Crevits, Flemish Minister for Overall economy, Science and Innovation explained: “One of the matters that the COVID-19 pandemic has evidently exemplified is that state-of-the-art infrastructure, together with supercomputers, are essential to empower powerful investigation and improvement in Flanders. I am very pleased that our steady infrastructure investments assist progress Flemish groundbreaking abilities in R&D.”

The new supercomputer is scheduled for delivery at Ghent College in This autumn 2020. A additional growth of this program is prepared for 2022.

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Complex details

The configuration is made up of 5 racks with the next things:
• ninety eight BullSequana X2410 blades (294 nodes), every single node outfitted with the AMD Rome 7H12 CPUs and 256GB of RAM (16GB*sixteen@3200MHz dims)
• 14 BullSequana X2410 blades (42 nodes), every single node outfitted with the AMD Rome 7H12 CPUs and 512GB of RAM (32GB*sixteen@3200MHz dims)
• twenty BullSequana X2415 blades outfitted with the new Nvidia RedStone board embedding the Nvidia A100-40 GPUs (x4)
• DDN multi-tier EXAScaler resolution with a Hybrid ES7990X and all flash SFA200NVX to supply more than 100 TB of accelerated flash efficiency and 4 PB of very long expression storage.

About Atos
Atos is a global leader in digital transformation with a hundred and ten,000 employees in seventy three nations and once-a-year profits of € twelve billion. European number 1 in Cloud, Cybersecurity and High-Functionality Computing, the Group offers conclude-to-conclude Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Huge Info, Business Programs and Digital Place of work methods. The Group is the Around the globe Facts Technology Husband or wife for the Olympic & Paralympic Online games and operates underneath the brands Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), listed on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The objective of Atos is to assist layout the foreseeable future of the facts space. Its abilities and providers help the improvement of information, education and learning and investigation in a multicultural solution and contribute to the improvement of scientific and technological excellence. Across the environment, the Group enables its prospects and employees, and associates of societies at substantial to dwell, perform and produce sustainably, in a safe and sound and safe facts space.

Push contacts Atos:
Benelux: Lise Kleijn | [email protected] | +31 six 831 69 358 |
Worldwide: Laura Fau | [email protected] | +33 six seventy three sixty four 04 eighteen | @laurajanefau

About VSC
The Flemish Supercomputer Center (Vlaams Supercomputer Centrum – VSC) is a partnership amongst the 5 Flemish universities and their college associations. This consortium delivers with each other knowhow in scientific and complex computing (together with significant efficiency computing, significant throughput computing, cloud computing and details processing) in Flanders, and residences infrastructure in 4 hubs: the datacenters of the universities of Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent and Leuven. The VSC is managed by the Analysis Fund – Flanders (FWO).

The VSC encourages the use of scientific and complex computing in the Flemish tutorial and industrial landscape. To this conclude, it presents infrastructure, schooling and providers. In addition, VSC acts as a lever to encourage the importance of scientific and complex computing and its included price to society.

Push get in touch with Ghent College:
Ewald Pauwels | [email protected] | +32 9 264 4716 |