Atos delivers BullSequana X410 supercomputer to Swansea University

Swansea (Wales), London (United kingdom), Paris (France), March ten 2021

Atos nowadays announced that it has signed a deal with Swansea University to deploy its BullSequana X410 supercomputer, built on the new NVIDIA A100 Tensor Main GPU architecture and NVIDIA Mellanox HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand networking, which will enable academics in Swansea and throughout Wales to push floor-breaking investigation centered on innovative equipment mastering and deep mastering algorithms.

The most significant NVIDIA A100 deployments within just Wales, this significant-performance supercomputer kinds element of Atos’ present connection with Supercomputing Wales – an Atos and Dell EMC supercomputing Centre of Excellence partly funded by the European Regional Advancement Fund (ERDF) by means of the Welsh Authorities.

Part of the ‘AccelerateAI’ initiative, also funded by the European Regional Advancement Fund (ERDF) by means of the Welsh Authorities, this GPU-accelerated supercomputer will enable investigation groups with concentrations in arithmetic, engineering, science and medicine throughout Wales to produce developments in reducing-edge AI investigation and in industrial applications.

The NVIDIA A100 Tensor Main GPUs mounted within just the BullSequana X410 supercomputer are really parallel processors designed to strengthen computing. The integration of up to 8 GPUs within just a 2U sort component sites this process at the forefront of today’s accelerated computing solutions, in conditions of compute density, performance and price-effectiveness. The supercomputer will also leverage NVIDIA Mellanox HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand’s speedy information throughout, very minimal latency, and intelligent In-Community Computing engines, enabling condition-of-the-artwork performance for a broad vary of HPC and AI applications that will even further push Swansea University’s investigation.

The AI supercomputer will be centered at Swansea University’s vitality-economical Bay Facts Centre, where by Atos will manage the machines and perform closely with academics to help deal with their precise investigation requirements.

Agnès Boudot, Senior Vice President, Head of HPC & Quantum at Atos, explained: “The BullSequana will supply researchers throughout Wales with condition-of-the-artwork hardware to enable new scientific developments on equipment mastering and deep mastering algorithms. As the very first substantial-scale deployment of the NVIDIA A100 architecture, we think this is an exciting milestone for supercomputing-enabled investigation in Wales, supporting its ambition to be a entire world chief in significant-performance computing as element of the Supercomputing Wales project.”

Professor Biagio Lucini, Director of the Swansea Academy of Superior Computing at Swansea University, explained: “We are pleased that the delivery of this reducing-edge, AI BullSequana X410 supercomputer will empower academics throughout Wales to push ahead probably floor-breaking discoveries. Constructing on the accomplishment of the Supercomputing Wales project, this really impressive machines will increase how AI is implemented into market and applied to clear up investigation troubles, when strengthening Wales’ situation as a primary supercomputing hub.”

“HPC and AI have develop into the basis on which we comprehend the solutions to the world’s most intricate and hard troubles,“ explained Rod Evans, EMEA Director for Supercomputing, Better Schooling and AI at NVIDIA. “That is why NVIDIA has built the world’s most robust and total AI supercomputing platform that provides the security and performance essential for HPC and AI researchers.”

Scientists from other Universities within just the Supercomputing Wales consortium – including Cardiff, Aberystwyth and Bangor – will have accessibility to the significant-performance process, supporting to support the country’s ambition to contend globally for investigation and innovation initiatives. In collaboration with neighborhood SMEs, the project will also speed up adoption of AI strategies in Welsh market.

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