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 electronic transformation, announces that it has signed a 6-yr contract for a value of more than 10 Million Euro with Ghent University (UGent) to produce the up coming Tier1 supercomputer for the Flemish Supercomputer Middle VSC. This supercomputer will support researchers from academic research institutions, authorities and marketplace to pace up time-consuming calculations and address intricate computational complications: from modeling temperature and weather change to supporting the development of renewable vitality and accelerating the search for new medicine. Most considerably, supercomputers have just lately been instrumental in research combatting COVID-19, together with in Flanders.

Antoine Kerrinckx, CEO at Atos in Belux: “Know-how is becoming significantly significant in our modern society. We imagine it’s significant that researchers have the correct equipment and infrastructure at their disposal. We are delighted to lead to the development of science and technologies with the delivery of our Atos supercomputer.”

Atos will equip the new Tier1 supercomputer with BullSequana XH2000 technologies and its BullSequana X Supercomputer Suite as the computer software stack. This innovative computer software atmosphere for Substantial Overall performance Computing and AI will help conclude-customers to build and operate the essential computer software codes that are applied all through the assorted research and development fields inside the VSC, this sort of as elements design, engineering, temperature/weather modeling and bioinformatics.

This will be the third Tier1 supercomputer that the VSC installs in Flanders. The initially one particular ‘muk’ was mounted at Ghent University 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 University infrastructure hub of the Flemish Supercomputer Middle VSC. The VSC is a partnership amongst the five Flemish universities and is managed by the Study Fund – Flanders (FWO). VSC encourages the use of scientific and technical computing in the Flemish academic and industrial landscape, presenting devoted infrastructure, schooling and providers. Funding is provided by the Flemish authorities, division of Financial state, Science and Innovation.

Hilde Crevits, Flemish Minister for Financial state, Science and Innovation mentioned: “One of the factors that the COVID-19 pandemic has clearly exemplified is that point out-of-the-art infrastructure, together with supercomputers, are important to help potent research and development in Flanders. I am happy that our continual infrastructure investments support progress Flemish groundbreaking abilities in R&D.”

The new supercomputer is scheduled for delivery at Ghent University in This autumn 2020. A more enlargement of this method is prepared for 2022.

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Specialized information

The configuration is made up of five racks with the adhering to factors:
• ninety eight BullSequana X2410 blades (294 nodes), each and every node outfitted with the AMD Rome 7H12 CPUs and 256GB of RAM (16GB*sixteen@3200MHz dims)
• fourteen BullSequana X2410 blades (42 nodes), each and every node outfitted with the AMD Rome 7H12 CPUs and 512GB of RAM (32GB*sixteen@3200MHz dims)
• 20 BullSequana X2415 blades outfitted with the new Nvidia RedStone board embedding the Nvidia A100-40 GPUs (x4)
• DDN multi-tier EXAScaler answer with a Hybrid ES7990X and all flash SFA200NVX to produce more than a hundred TB of accelerated flash general performance and four PB of prolonged term storage.

About Atos
Atos is a global leader in electronic transformation with one hundred ten,000 staff members in 73 countries and yearly income of € 12 billion. European variety one particular in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Substantial-Overall performance Computing, the Team provides conclude-to-conclude Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Significant Data, Small business Apps and Digital Office solutions. The Team is the Around the globe Facts Know-how Husband or wife for the Olympic & Paralympic Game titles and operates less than the models Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), stated on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The objective of Atos is to support design the long run of the facts area. Its expertise and providers support the development of knowledge, schooling and research in a multicultural technique and lead to the development of scientific and technological excellence. Across the globe, the Team permits its prospects and staff members, and customers of societies at massive to dwell, do the job and build sustainably, in a safe and safe facts area.

Press contacts Atos:
Benelux: Lise Kleijn | [email protected] | +31 6 831 sixty nine 358 |
World wide: Laura Fau | [email protected] | +33 6 73 64 04 eighteen | @laurajanefau

About VSC
The Flemish Supercomputer Middle (Vlaams Supercomputer Centrum – VSC) is a partnership amongst the five Flemish universities and their college associations. This consortium delivers jointly knowhow in scientific and technical computing (together with significant general performance computing, significant throughput computing, cloud computing and info processing) in Flanders, and properties infrastructure in four hubs: the datacenters of the universities of Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent and Leuven. The VSC is managed by the Study Fund – Flanders (FWO).

The VSC encourages the use of scientific and technical computing in the Flemish academic and industrial landscape. To this conclude, it gives infrastructure, schooling and providers. In addition, VSC functions as a lever to promote the relevance of scientific and technical computing and its included value to modern society.

Press contact Ghent University:
Ewald Pauwels | [email protected] | +32 nine 264 4716 |