Atos establishes Life Sciences Centre of Excellence to support researchers worldwide
London, United kingdom Paris, France – July eight 2020
Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, in settlement with the Wellcome Genome Campus, in Cambridgeshire, United kingdom, right now announces its global HPC, AI & Quantum Life Sciences Centre of Excellence in order to supply organisations on Campus, and global genome and bio-details institutes worldwide, obtain to emerging HPC, AI & Quantum systems.
The Atos Life Sciences Centre of Excellence will enhance the current Campus compute facilities with obtain to primary-edge systems, this sort of as Quantum, Higher General performance Computing and AI, supported by Atos’ goods, providers and skills in these sectors. Atos specialists will collaborate specifically with genome and biological details study scientists to assist strengthen Life Sciences discovery and innovation.
“I am delighted that Atos is joining our Campus local community, offering increased insight into biodata at outstanding speeds and efficacy will direct to modern new methodologies and goods, as well as lessening the study-to-solution progress journey generating a significant constructive affect for the many parts of everyday living sciences”, explained Dr Julia Wilson, Affiliate Director, Wellcome Genome Campus.
“With significant progress programs in place Atos will promptly turn into a important companion inside our Campus local community. Now is the time to power our study by the utilized use of modern technological know-how that could greatly advance biodata study. This will direct to increased opportunities to translate study into tangible societal benefits”, added Dr Jo Mills, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Centre Supervisor, Wellcome Genome Campus.
In this Centre, scientists and technologists worldwide will explore the diverse usages of systems this sort of as Quantum, Higher General performance Computing and AI by a broad assortment of pursuits this sort of as evidence of thought generation, innovation workshops, courses and conferences.
Atos Quantum Discovering Machine, the world’s highest-carrying out commercially readily available quantum simulator, is by now helping the study evaluation capability of businesses such as Bayer in Germany, the Centre of Computation Research and Technology (CCRT) at the CEA in France, The Hartree Centre in United kingdom and Oak Ridge Nationwide Laboratory in the US.
Scientists will also be able to profit from Atos’ strong BullSequana X supercomputers, which supply large-functionality computing power to guidance scientists attain final results speedier. They are becoming utilised right now throughout the globe to guidance the recent struggle versus Covid-19.
Pierre Barnabé, Senior Executive Vice-President, Head of Huge Data & Cybersecurity at Atos, explained: “We are delighted to set up the Centre, as the probable for collaborative possibility with Life Sciences institutes globally is enormous. Quantum, Higher General performance Computing as well as edge computing assisted by artificial intelligence maintain interesting, transformative probable for the everyday living sciences sector, and we are wanting forward to implementing these in actual globe situations by combining study skills with our technological skills to unlock possibility.”
The Centre is by now operating remotely and is delivering guidance to scientists worldwide learning a lot of diverse factors of Covid-19 this sort of as characterizing the framework of SARS-CoV-2 to better fully grasp its mechanisms of an infection or modelling the spread of the condition by using mathematical solutions.
Moreover, two demos are becoming designed which unlock the value of HPC and AI to product cardiovascular anomalies and to speed up the interpretation of medical processes. These will be showcased as shortly as the Centre opens its doorways.
