“Topaze”: a new computer at the CCRT co-designed by Atos and the CEA to meet the challenges of high-performance computing and data processing

Paris, France – June 23 2021

The CEA and its partners at the Study and Technologies Computing Middle (CCRT) have invested in a new supercomputer, named ‘Topaze’, dependent on the BullSequana XH2000 answer from Atos, and put in in the CEA’s Really Significant Computing Middle (TGCC[one]) at Bruyères-le-Châtel in Essonne (south of Paris). It will be open up to the very first people at the end of June 2021, to start the ‘Grand Challenges’ phase, for very massive-scale simulations.

‘Topaze’ is component of Atos’ variety of HPC supercomputers, acquired next a contact for tenders, and is the final result of joint R&D by Atos and the CEA’s Armed forces Applications Directorate (DAM). It has a peak computing power of close to 8.8 petaflops[2].

The new personal computer features a basic-reason partition of 864 nodes equipped with the newest AMD EPYC Milan 7763 processors, an accelerated partition of forty eight nodes dependent on Nvidia A100 processors and four very massive memory nodes. A DDN[3] storage method with a ability of somewhere around 3 petabytes and a bandwidth of 280 gigabytes/s completes the computation component.

As partners of the CCRT, the teams from ArianeGroup, the CEA, Cerfacs, EDF, France Génomique, IFPEN, Ineris, Ingeliance, IRSN, L’Oréal, Michelin, Onera, the Safran Group, Synchrotron SOLEIL, TechnicAtome, Thales Defence Mission Systems, Thales Alenia Place and Valeo will have access to the newest generation of computing and details processing assets necessary for the results of their projects.

Higher-overall performance electronic simulation is an indispensable asset for innovation in lots of fields, these kinds of as experiments on the progress of new aircraft and helicopter engines, energy and ecological transition technologies, the design and protection of nuclear reactors, environmental threat investigation, the design of new ‘flexible’ satellites, the research of proteins and the decoding of the genome, the design and manufacture of tires and built-in programs for cars, analysis into new products, and the progress of extra environmentally pleasant cosmetics.

The CCRT’s partnership product, set up in 2003, has shown its means to answer in a sustainable way tailored to the growing wants of industry. It delivers a broad variety of capabilities in the area of superior-overall performance calculations and processing, combining security, innovation and flexibility in the use of assets. This product is dependent on several conversations and performing sessions involving the partners in purchase to share wants and responses.

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About Atos

Atos is a worldwide leader in electronic transformation with 105,000 staff and once-a-year income of above € eleven billion. European variety a single in cybersecurity, cloud and superior overall performance computing, the Group delivers tailored end-to-end methods for all industries in 71 nations around the world. A pioneer in decarbonization expert services and products and solutions, Atos is committed to a secure and decarbonized electronic for its clientele. Atos operates below the manufacturers Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), mentioned on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The reason of Atos is to enable design the long term of the facts place. Its knowledge and expert services assist the progress of knowledge, schooling and analysis in a multicultural solution and add to the progress of scientific and technological excellence. Across the globe, the Group permits its buyers and staff, and users of societies at massive to dwell, work and acquire sustainably, in a protected and secure facts place. www.atos.internet

About the CEA

The CEA is a critical participant in analysis, progress and innovation in four most important areas: energy transition, electronic transition, know-how for the medication of the long term and protection and security. With a workforce of 20,000 individuals, dependent in nine web sites equipped with very massive-scale analysis infrastructures, the CEA actively participates in collaborative jobs with a massive variety of tutorial and industrial partners, in France, Europe and globally.

For extra facts: www.cea.fr

By its Armed forces Applications Division (CEA-DAM), the CEA is tasked with overseeing France’s protection and security programs. It models, manufactures and makes sure the protection and reliability of France’s nuclear deterrent warheads. It models and would make the nuclear steam supply programs that power the French Navy’s vessels. The CEA also delivers technological assist to the Authorities aimed at preventing nuclear proliferation and terrorism, as perfectly as giving its knowledge to advise the French Defense Ministry on examining and taking care of the outcomes of regular weapons programs and their vulnerability.

[one] The CEA’s Really Significant Computing Middle (TGCC) is an infrastructure operated by teams from the DAM Île-de-France middle and designed to host supercomputers, with all the computing assets and expert services adapted to superior-overall performance electronic processing.

[2] one million billion functions per second.

[3] DataDirect Networks

Photograph caption: Topaze, the new supercomputer at the CCRT ©CEA