Atos boosts supercomputing power by 10 for Spanish State Meteorological Agency AEMET

Paris (France), Madrid (Spain), February 23, 2021

Atos announces that it has been chosen by the Spanish State Meteorological Company (AEMET) to supply and install its computing and storage engineering, as a result of the tender “Contracting of Supply as a result of leasing devoid of the possibility to purchase a Supercomputing Method for the AEMET”. Centered on the BullSequana supercomputing architecture from Atos, the new supercomputer will offer practically 10 times far more computing potential than the current one which was mounted in the 2014.

This new supercomputer will strengthen and grow AEMET’s current computing capabilities to enhance investigate in unique places this kind of as weather forecasting, local climate modify, wave prediction and help its collaboration with international businesses. Additionally, it supports AEMET meet up with the new strategic, technological and service provision challenges, this kind of as preparing, supplying and disseminating meteorological information and forecasts, in its 2019-21 Action System, therefore consolidating its presence as one of the most important meteorological facilities in Europe.

“The availability of the new high-general performance method will not only enable for better computing potential and a reduction in the time important for the execution of numerical designs, but it will also enable us to improve methods, automate processes and put in put detailed procedures, to encourage a far more sustainable architecture.” reported Raúl Hilara, Telematics Coordinator of the State Meteorological Company at AEMET.

“The truth that AEMET has renewed their self esteem in our technological capabilities is testament to our skills and we are very pleased that Atos will keep on to be their reference engineering supplier in supercomputing, accompanying them in the new challenges of weather forecasting and local climate modify. This new good results strengthens our dedication as a European chief in the meteorology sector. ” reported José Camacho, director of HPC & Quantum computing of Atos in Iberia.

This undertaking will consist of the set up of two clusters geared up with far more than fifty,000 cores primarily based on AMD EPYC processor engineering, with a potential 5.9 PB of gross storage, connected with a low latency interconnect network of 200 Gbits / sec.

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