Atos’ BullSequana powers the first EuroHPC supercomputer operational at IZUM in Slovenia
Based mostly on Atos’ BullSequana XH2000, the ‘Vega’ supercomputer was inaugurated at the Institute of Information and facts Science (IZUM) in Slovenia
Maribor (Slovenia), Paris (France) April 21, 2021
Atos and the Institute of Information and facts Science (IZUM) in Maribor, Slovenia, right now announce that the first EuroHPC supercomputer is now operational. This is the ‘Vega’ supercomputer, based on Atos’ BullSequana XH2000 architecture, which is now mounted pursuing a start out-up ceremony hosted by IZUM with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia, Janez Janša, in attendance, jointly with the Govt Vice-President of the European Fee Margrethe Vestager, the Minister of Instruction, Science and Activity Dr. Simona Kustec and the Govt Director of EuroHPC Joint Undertaking Anders Dam Jensen.
Vega, the major supercomputer in the country, is based at IZUM, a general public infrastructural institution and analysis group proven by the Governing administration of the Republic of Slovenia. It will be utilised to aid the improvement of foremost scientific, general public sector and industrial programs in a lot of domains, which includes personalized medication, bio-engineering, weather forecasting, fight in opposition to local weather change and discovering new products and medication.
It will give researchers from Slovenia and the EuroHPC community with a contemporary infrastructure providing utmost functionality for computing, details processing, significant-functionality details investigation (HPDA), Synthetic Intelligence (AI) and Equipment Understanding design improvement with speedy community connectivity to other computing centers in Slovenia and Europe.
Dr. Aleš Bošnjak, Director of IZUM: “We’re delighted to announce the start out-up of the first EuroHPC supercomputer in this article in Slovenia. Now we can generate forward our analysis and innovation initiatives, in individual our HPC RIVR task style plans, supporting Slovenian and European researchers and end users from the general public and industry sectors, to fulfill new issues and additional contribute to the regional and European HPC initiatives.”
Named Vega, soon after Slovenian mathematician Jurij Vega, the new petascale supercomputer will be co-owned and jointly operated by the EuroHPC JU (The European Superior-Effectiveness Computing Joint Undertaking). Able of executing far more than six,eight petaflops (six,eight million billion calculations per 2nd), the technique will be amongst the world’s prime five supercomputers.
Agnes Boudot, Senior Vice President, Head of HPC & Quantum at Atos concluded “As the foremost European supercomputer producer, we are proud to be contributing in the direction of advancing analysis and innovation in Slovenia and in Europe. ‘Vega’, as component of the EuroHPC method and community, is component of a European worldclass supercomputing ecosystem and will assist Europe compete globally in strategic domains such as artificial intelligence, bio-engineering and the fight in opposition to local weather change.”
Atos was awarded a five-12 months €17.3 million euro contract to supply, install and preserve the BullSequana XH2000 ‘Vega’ supercomputer.
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Technological Information and facts
- twelve x BullSequana XH2000 Immediate Liquid cooling racks
- 8PF Linpack Effectiveness (Rmax)
- 960 CPU nodes with AMD EPYC 7H12 processors
- 60 GPU nodes with four x NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs just about every
- Whole 325TB of memory
- 1PB of usable storage for Superior Performace storage
- 18PB of usable storage for Huge Potential Storage
- Infiniband HDR Interconnect
- 38 x Atos Sequana x400 series assistance node
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Photograph caption: from still left to correct – Branko Zebec, Assistant Director of IZUM Dr Simona Kustec, Minister of Instruction, Science and Activity Janez Janša, Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia and Dr Aleš Bošnjak Director of IZUM.
