Atos partners with University of Oxford on largest AI supercomputer in the UK
Paris and London, 4 August 2020
Atos, a global chief in electronic transformation, has signed a four-yr agreement value £5 million with the University of Oxford to produce a new, point out of the art, deep mastering supercomputer created on the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD™ architecture, which will empower British isles teachers and field to drive ahead scientific discoveries and innovation in equipment mastering and artificial intelligence, as portion of the JADE2 undertaking.
The most significant AI-targeted supercomputer in the British isles with about five hundred NVIDIA GPUs, this superior-functionality procedure is funded by the Engineering and Actual physical Sciences Exploration Council (EPSRC), and aims to make on the results of the present JADE1 (Joint Tutorial Knowledge Science Endeavour) facility – a national source furnishing innovative GPU computing facilities to entire world-major AI and equipment mastering industry experts from a consortium of eight British isles universities and the Alan Turing Institute.
The JADE2 supercomputer is created on NVIDIA DGX devices, and employs the DDN A3I storage alternative. It will a lot more than triple the capability of the original JADE equipment and provide amplified computing abilities to a broader consortium of about twenty universities and the Turing Institute, encouraging to meet the stage of desire for AI-targeted facilities established as a consequence of the results of the JADE source.
Professor Wes Armour at the University of Oxford said: “The effective shipping of JADE has established a lot more desire among British isles researchers and field for potent computing facilities which can accommodate superior conclude, data intensive AI workloads. Building on the results of the JADE collaboration with Atos, and by drastically expanding the JADE consortium’s computing capability, the new Deep Mastering supercomputer equipped by Atos will allow for us to meet this desire and support lots of institutions to make some perhaps ground-breaking discoveries. It will cement JADE’s standing as the de facto national computing facility for tutorial AI exploration.”
Alison Kennedy, Director, STFC Hartree Centre reported: “We are delighted that the shipping and internet hosting of this chopping-edge JADE-2 hardware and the resultant raise in capacity will aid the improvement and growth of exploration computing capabilities throughout field and academia. This aligns directly with the Hartree Centre’s mission and we are delighted to keep on the collaboration with Atos and Oxford University which builds upon the prior results of JADE.”
Agnès Boudot, Senior Vice President, Head of HPC & Quantum at Atos, concluded: “We are proud to be operating with the University of Oxford on the shipping of JADE2, which will provide researchers and field with a lot more computing power to empower new scientific breakthroughs and innovation in equipment mastering and AI. We believe that this superior-functionality procedure, coupled with our abilities, will support the British isles to deal with critical AI and equipment mastering issues, although supporting the UK’s ambition to be a entire world-chief in these parts.”
The DGX SuperPOD procedure will comprise a cluster of 63 DGX nodes, possessing 504 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Main GPUs in complete, interconnected with NVIDIA Mellanox InfiniBand networking, all becoming fed by DDN’s AI400 storage, making it the most significant such procedure in the British isles.
The procedure is to be hosted at the STFC Hartree Centre in Daresbury, in the vicinity of Warrington, British isles.
1 JADE – Joint Tutorial Knowledge science Endeavour. This proposal, led by the University of Oxford, with aid from the Alan Turing Institute (ATI), and 22 universities, is the national GPU procedure supporting multidisciplinary science with a concentrate on equipment mastering and molecular dynamics.
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Atos is a global chief in electronic transformation with one hundred ten,000 workforce in 73 countries and yearly earnings of € 12 billion. European range just one in Cloud, Cybersecurity and High-Efficiency Computing, the Group presents conclude-to-conclude Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Large Knowledge, Company Purposes and Electronic Place of work methods. The Group is the Around the world Details Technological innovation Spouse for the Olympic & Paralympic Game titles and operates below the brand names Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), outlined on the CAC40 Paris stock index.
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