Ghent University engages Atos to build third Tier1 VSC supercomputer supporting research in Flanders

Paris, France Ghent, Belgium – 24 June 2020

Atos, a international chief in electronic transformation, announces that it has signed a six-calendar year contract for a benefit of around 10 Million Euro with Ghent College (UGent) to provide the next Tier1 supercomputer for the Flemish Supercomputer Middle VSC. This supercomputer will support scientists from tutorial exploration establishments, govt and industry to pace up time-consuming calculations and fix intricate computational troubles: from modeling weather and climate adjust to supporting the advancement of renewable strength and accelerating the research for new medication. Most significantly, supercomputers have just lately been instrumental in exploration combatting COVID-19, which include in Flanders.

Antoine Kerrinckx, CEO at Atos in Belux: “Technological innovation is turning into progressively significant in our modern society. We assume it is significant that scientists have the right resources and infrastructure at their disposal. We are delighted to add to the development of science and engineering with the shipping and delivery of our Atos supercomputer.”

Atos will equip the new Tier1 supercomputer with BullSequana XH2000 engineering and its BullSequana X Supercomputer Suite as the software package stack. This state-of-the-art software package natural environment for High Effectiveness Computing and AI will enable finish-people to acquire and run the crucial software package codes that are applied in the course of the numerous exploration and advancement fields within just the VSC, these as elements style, engineering, weather/climate modeling and bioinformatics.

This will be the 3rd Tier1 supercomputer that the VSC installs in Flanders. The 1st a single ‘muk’ was installed at Ghent College in 2012, succeeded by ‘BrENIAC’ at KU Leuven in 2016. Now, in 2020, a new Tier1 supercomputer will again be installed at the Ghent College infrastructure hub of the Flemish Supercomputer Middle VSC. The VSC is a partnership among the 5 Flemish universities and is managed by the Investigate Fund – Flanders (FWO). VSC encourages the use of scientific and technological computing in the Flemish tutorial and industrial landscape, providing dedicated infrastructure, education and expert services. Funding is furnished by the Flemish govt, office of Economic climate, Science and Innovation.

Hilde Crevits, Flemish Minister for Economic climate, Science and Innovation stated: “One of the issues that the COVID-19 pandemic has clearly exemplified is that condition-of-the-artwork infrastructure, which include supercomputers, are vital to enable powerful exploration and advancement in Flanders. I am proud that our constant infrastructure investments support progress Flemish pioneering abilities in R&D.”

The new supercomputer is scheduled for shipping and delivery at Ghent College in This autumn 2020. A even further expansion of this program is planned for 2022.

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Technological information

The configuration consists of 5 racks with the next components:
• ninety eight BullSequana X2410 blades (294 nodes), each node outfitted with the AMD Rome 7H12 CPUs and 256GB of RAM (16GB*sixteen@3200MHz dims)
• 14 BullSequana X2410 blades (forty two nodes), each node outfitted with the AMD Rome 7H12 CPUs and 512GB of RAM (32GB*sixteen@3200MHz dims)
• 20 BullSequana X2415 blades outfitted with the new Nvidia RedStone board embedding the Nvidia A100-40 GPUs (x4)
• DDN multi-tier EXAScaler solution with a Hybrid ES7990X and all flash SFA200NVX to provide around a hundred TB of accelerated flash effectiveness and four PB of extensive time period storage.

About Atos
Atos is a international chief in electronic transformation with a hundred and ten,000 staff in 73 countries and annual profits of € 12 billion. European variety a single in Cloud, Cybersecurity and High-Effectiveness Computing, the Team provides finish-to-finish Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Massive Information, Organization Purposes and Digital Workplace answers. The Team is the Throughout the world Information Technological innovation Companion for the Olympic & Paralympic Games and operates underneath the manufacturers Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), outlined on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The function of Atos is to support style the future of the info room. Its know-how and expert services help the advancement of expertise, instruction and exploration in a multicultural technique and add to the advancement of scientific and technological excellence. Across the globe, the Team enables its shoppers and staff, and users of societies at substantial to are living, work and acquire sustainably, in a risk-free and secure info room.

About VSC
The Flemish Supercomputer Middle (Vlaams Supercomputer Centrum – VSC) is a partnership among the 5 Flemish universities and their college associations. This consortium delivers collectively knowhow in scientific and technological computing (which include substantial effectiveness computing, substantial throughput computing, cloud computing and facts processing) in Flanders, and houses infrastructure in 4 hubs: the datacenters of the universities of Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent and Leuven. The VSC is managed by the Investigate Fund – Flanders (FWO).

The VSC encourages the use of scientific and technological computing in the Flemish tutorial and industrial landscape. To this finish, it offers infrastructure, education and expert services. In addition, VSC acts as a lever to promote the significance of scientific and technological computing and its additional benefit to modern society.

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