Ghent University engages Atos to build third Tier1 VSC supercomputer supporting research in Flanders
Paris, France Ghent, Belgium – 24 June 2020
Atos, a worldwide chief in electronic transformation, announces that it has signed a six-12 months agreement for a benefit of over 10 Million Euro with Ghent College (UGent) to supply the future Tier1 supercomputer for the Flemish Supercomputer Centre VSC. This supercomputer will assistance scientists from tutorial investigate institutions, government and business to speed up time-consuming calculations and solve intricate computational problems: from modeling climate and local climate change to supporting the improvement of renewable strength and accelerating the research for new drugs. Most drastically, supercomputers have a short while ago been instrumental in investigate combatting COVID-19, which include in Flanders.
Antoine Kerrinckx, CEO at Atos in Belux: “Technologies is getting to be progressively significant in our modern society. We imagine it is really significant that scientists have the suitable instruments and infrastructure at their disposal. We are delighted to add to the development of science and technological know-how with the shipping and delivery of our Atos supercomputer.”
Atos will equip the new Tier1 supercomputer with BullSequana XH2000 technological know-how and its BullSequana X Supercomputer Suite as the program stack. This superior program surroundings for Superior General performance Computing and AI will help stop-end users to create and operate the essential program codes that are made use of during the varied investigate and improvement fields inside the VSC, these types of as materials design and style, engineering, climate/local climate modeling and bioinformatics.
This will be the third Tier1 supercomputer that the VSC installs in Flanders. The first a person ‘muk’ was set up at Ghent College in 2012, succeeded by ‘BrENIAC’ at KU Leuven in 2016. Now, in 2020, a new Tier1 supercomputer will once more be set up at the Ghent College infrastructure hub of the Flemish Supercomputer Centre VSC. The VSC is a partnership concerning the 5 Flemish universities and is managed by the Analysis Fund – Flanders (FWO). VSC encourages the use of scientific and technological computing in the Flemish tutorial and industrial landscape, offering devoted infrastructure, instruction and providers. Funding is offered by the Flemish government, division of Financial system, Science and Innovation.
Hilde Crevits, Flemish Minister for Financial system, Science and Innovation said: “One of the points that the COVID-19 pandemic has plainly exemplified is that state-of-the-art infrastructure, which include supercomputers, are critical to help solid investigate and improvement in Flanders. I am happy that our constant infrastructure investments assistance advance Flemish pioneering abilities in R&D.”
The new supercomputer is scheduled for shipping and delivery at Ghent College in This fall 2020. A even more growth of this method is planned for 2022.
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Technological information
The configuration consists of 5 racks with the following things:
• 98 BullSequana X2410 blades (294 nodes), each node equipped with the AMD Rome 7H12 CPUs and 256GB of RAM (16GB*sixteen@3200MHz dims)
• fourteen BullSequana X2410 blades (forty two nodes), each node equipped with the AMD Rome 7H12 CPUs and 512GB of RAM (32GB*sixteen@3200MHz dims)
• twenty BullSequana X2415 blades equipped with the new Nvidia RedStone board embedding the Nvidia A100-forty GPUs (x4)
• DDN multi-tier EXAScaler alternative with a Hybrid ES7990X and all flash SFA200NVX to supply over a hundred TB of accelerated flash functionality and 4 PB of long term storage.
About Atos
Atos is a worldwide chief in electronic transformation with one hundred ten,000 workforce in seventy three international locations and yearly earnings of € twelve billion. European number a person in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Superior-General performance Computing, the Team offers stop-to-stop Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Huge Knowledge, Organization Applications and Digital Workplace solutions. The Team is the Throughout the world Information Technologies Husband or wife for the Olympic & Paralympic Games and operates under the models Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), detailed on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.
The objective of Atos is to assistance design and style the long term of the data room. Its expertise and providers guidance the improvement of information, education and learning and investigate in a multicultural technique and add to the improvement of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the entire world, the Team enables its customers and workforce, and users of societies at huge to live, do the job and create sustainably, in a protected and secure data room.
Press contacts Atos:
Benelux: Lise Kleijn | [email protected] | +31 six 831 sixty nine 358 |
Worldwide: Laura Fau | [email protected] | +33 six seventy three 64 04 18 | @laurajanefau
About VSC
The Flemish Supercomputer Centre (Vlaams Supercomputer Centrum – VSC) is a partnership concerning the 5 Flemish universities and their college associations. This consortium delivers jointly knowhow in scientific and technological computing (which include large functionality computing, large throughput computing, cloud computing and facts processing) in Flanders, and residences infrastructure in 4 hubs: the datacenters of the universities of Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent and Leuven. The VSC is managed by the Analysis Fund – Flanders (FWO).
The VSC encourages the use of scientific and technological computing in the Flemish tutorial and industrial landscape. To this stop, it gives infrastructure, instruction and providers. In addition, VSC acts as a lever to advertise the great importance of scientific and technological computing and its added benefit to modern society.
Press call Ghent College:
Ewald Pauwels | [email protected] | +32 nine 264 4716 |
