Atos mobilizes technological expertise to fight Covid-19

Paris, 28 April 2020

Atos, a world wide leader in digital transformation, provides its technological innovation management, competencies and innovation assets to the world wide battle in opposition to Covid-19. By way of quite a few immediate and lover-led initiatives throughout the globe, Atos is engaged on various fronts, providing options and computing electricity to enable contain the unfold of the virus, assist the scientific community, speed up vaccine exploration and make certain business continuity for essential pursuits.

“An successful response to COVID-19 calls for world wide motion and collaboration in between public and personal actors. We are proud to be encouraging these doing the job intensively on the frontline in an exertion to counteract the pandemic by sharing our assets and options. We are now in uncharted territory, but Atos’ motivation and willingness to enable citizens live and function sustainably and confidently in a altering digital landscape in the course of the pandemic and in the very long expression, continue to be intact,” says Elie Girard, Atos CEO.

 

Helping community authorities contain the unfold of the virus

The growing mobility of the population tends to make containment of diseases more durable and the have to have to act quickly and correctly is necessary at every single level.

Leveraging its public sector and healthcare practical experience, Atos has designed EpiSYS, an Epidemic Management Program (EMS) which offers healthcare industry experts a exact overview of an epidemiological circumstance by storing and running all client information and information associated to the virus, together with monitoring and tracing client incident experiences, in real-time. EpiSYS was adopted in Austria in early March to enable control the unfold of Covid-19 and take strategic choices in the recent disaster.

Mobilizing supercomputers and equipment studying to speed up exploration

Atos’ large-general performance pcs can rely hundreds of occasions faster than normal pcs. No matter whether they are employed for simulation, to build predictive types, examine the development of the sickness or develop new therapies, these potent devices are performing really demanding calculations that show to be necessary in today’s race in opposition to the clock.

Atos’ supercomputers are at function all around the earth. Two of the most potent supercomputers in France, Joliot-Curie, operated  at  the CEA’s  supercomputing  center  (TGCC),  and  Occigen,  operated  at  CPU’s supercomputing centre (CINES), are providing urgent computing accessibility to huge computer system assets to European exploration groups concerned in the battle in opposition to COVID-19.

In the British isles, Atos’ BullSequana supercomputer at the Hartree Centre is providing computing electricity to run simulations of Covid-19 protein conduct. In addition, the JADE nationwide AI supercomputing facility provided and managed by Atos is becoming employed by British isles scientists from the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Southampton doing the job in the region of biomolecular simulations. This supercomputer, owned by Oxford College and hosted at the Hartree Centre, portion of the Science and Technological know-how Facilities Council (STFC), contributes in the direction of initiatives in the development of a vaccine in opposition to SARS-COV2, anti-viral medicines and to far better recognize the molecular architecture of the virus and how it functions.

Equally, Atos’ supercomputers in Brazil and the Czech Republic are also driving exploration all around Covid-19.

 

Offering business continuity with risk-free and adaptable digital environments

Atos’ technologies also play a essential role in preserving business continuity amid the pandemic. To answer the issues that companies are dealing with with house place of work starting to be the norm, Atos has crafted and tailored a comprehensive place of work solutions supplying and delivers finish-to-finish options, from remote administration to wi-fi technological innovation, though making certain the protection of any enterprise surroundings.

It is also necessary to make certain authorities and public authorities are capable to proceed to source basic every day demands for every single citizen’s daily life. In the earlier weeks, Atos has been capable to assure assistance continuity with QoS (Good quality of Services) for electricity utilities and water provides, like Scottish Drinking water, in many nations around the world thanks to an unwavering motivation and knowledge in these industries.

 

Sharing our information science competencies with the exploration community

Atos is using portion in the ‘Covid–19 Dataset Challenge’, an international level of competition released by the White Home, asking AI scientists to implement equipment studying equipment and strategies to enable give answer to crucial issues about the sickness. Atos has a devoted staff of ten gurus doing the job on the project.