Atos partners with University of Oxford on largest AI supercomputer in the UK

Paris and London, 4 August 2020

Atos, a global chief in digital transformation, has signed a four-year contract really worth £5 million with the College of Oxford to provide a new, point out of the art, deep discovering supercomputer designed on the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD™ architecture, which will empower Uk academics and market to drive ahead scientific discoveries and innovation in machine discovering and synthetic intelligence, as portion of the JADE2 challenge.

The biggest AI-centered supercomputer in the Uk with more than 500 NVIDIA GPUs, this substantial-functionality program is funded by the Engineering and Actual physical Sciences Analysis Council (EPSRC), and aims to construct on the success of the latest JADE^one (Joint Academic Data Science Endeavour) facility – a nationwide source offering highly developed GPU computing services to entire world-primary AI and machine discovering authorities from a consortium of 8 Uk universities and the Alan Turing Institute.

The JADE2 supercomputer is designed on NVIDIA DGX methods, and makes use of the DDN A³I storage option. It will far more than triple the ability of the unique JADE machine and supply elevated computing capabilities to a wider consortium of more than twenty universities and the Turing Institute, helping to fulfill the amount of demand for AI-centered services designed as a end result of the success of the JADE source.

Professor Wes Armour at the College of Oxford said: “The productive delivery of JADE has designed far more demand amongst Uk scientists and market for effective computing services which can accommodate substantial close, facts intense AI workloads. Setting up on the success of the JADE collaboration with Atos, and by significantly growing the JADE consortium’s computing ability, the new Deep Learning supercomputer provided by Atos will let us to fulfill this demand and help many establishments to make some perhaps floor-breaking discoveries. It will cement JADE’s status as the de facto nationwide computing facility for academic AI investigate.”

Alison Kennedy, Director, STFC Hartree Centre said: “We are happy that the delivery and web hosting of this slicing-edge JADE-2 hardware and the resultant increase in capability will guidance the progress and expansion of investigate computing abilities throughout market and academia. This aligns instantly with the Hartree Centre’s mission and we are delighted to continue the collaboration with Atos and Oxford College which builds on the preceding success of JADE.”

Agnès Boudot,  Senior Vice President, Head of HPC & Quantum at Atos, concluded: “We are proud to be performing with the College of Oxford on the delivery of JADE2, which will supply scientists and market with far more computing power to empower new scientific breakthroughs and innovation in machine discovering and AI. We imagine this substantial-functionality program, coupled with our expertise, will help the Uk to deal with key AI and machine discovering problems, even though supporting the UK’s ambition to be a entire world-chief in these regions.”

The DGX SuperPOD program will comprise a cluster of 63 DGX nodes, getting 504 NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs in overall, interconnected with NVIDIA Mellanox InfiniBand networking, all currently being fed by DDN’s AI400 storage, generating it the biggest these types of program in the Uk.

The program is to be hosted at the STFC Hartree Centre in Daresbury, in close proximity to Warrington, Uk.

^one JADE – Joint Academic Data science Endeavour. This proposal, led by the College of Oxford, with guidance from the Alan Turing Institute (ATI), and 22 universities, is the nationwide GPU program supporting multidisciplinary science with a focus on machine discovering and molecular dynamics.

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