Joliot-Curie: the most powerful supercomputer dedicated to research in France

Paris, June 29, 2020

Atos, a world leader in electronic transformation, and GENCI, the French nationwide superior-functionality computing organization, and the CEA, expose that Joliot-Curie supercomputer with its 22 petaflop/s peak computing electric power is the most powerful supercomputer in France devoted to tutorial and industrial open up exploration, and the third most powerful exploration laptop or computer in Europe, according to the TOP500 position published on 22 June 2020. This supercomputer is derived from the co-layout operate carried out by the CEA with Atos for more than 20 decades*, and which produced it doable to determine present electric power computing architectures. The Joliot-Curie supercomputer ranks in thirty fourth position in the TOP500 and is run by Atos’ BullSequana XH2000 system and the newest AMD Rome processors.

Just about one yr on from its inauguration, Joliot-Curie is now operating at complete pace for the final 6 months and has been thoroughly employed in about a dozen tutorial and industrial fields this kind of as local climate, astrophysics, geophysics, superior fidelity combustion, biology, molecular dynamics and materials attributes, genome and neuroscience fields.

Operated at the CEA’s Really Huge Computing Centre (TGCC), this incredible device has tested its capabilities to offer urgent computing accessibility to massive scale HPC resources in the battle from COVID-19 much less than two months after becoming produced in production, many thanks also to sturdy aid presented by CEA experts who set up the needed environment to operate and submit-course of action effectively COVID-19 simulations.

As section of the PRACE (Partnership for Sophisticated Computing in Europe) COVID-19 Rapid Track contact and the nationwide urgent COVID-19 calls from GENCI, European researchers have becoming utilizing French supercomputer resources to electric power 36 COVID-19 initiatives with 18 of these managing on Joliot-Curie, delivering scientific success employed to speed up and aid community determination-generating for the battle from Covid-19 and pace up the advancement of a procedure dependent on an ideal awareness of the virus.

Because January 2020, Joliot-Curie now offers an intensive computing electric power with more than 440,000 superior functionality x86 cores in approximately 5000 of HPC nodes. It is the initially supercomputer put in around the world with AMD EPYC™ 7H12 series processors built-in in Atos’ newest BullSequana XH2000, which options DLC (Direct Liquid Cooling) for an optimized electricity-successful system.

Stephane Requena, CTO of GENCI, reported: “With its modular and well balanced architecture, Joliot-Curie is one of the most-employed programs in the PRACE European HPC infrastructure we are definitely very pleased to be equipped to give this kind of computing electric power to European researchers, in individual in the battle from COVID-19”.

Helene Bringer, Director Huge Information & HPC at Atos in France, included: “Every new Top500 position underlines the rapid pace of innovation in the subject of Substantial Effectiveness Computing. With 6 supercomputers, together with Joliot Curie, we are very pleased to be rated amid the leading fifty leaders in the planet many thanks to our particularly superior-functionality BullSequana technology, and to lead to industrial and scientific competitiveness in Europe.”

Christine Ménaché, Head of the CEA’s Really Huge Computing Center (TGCC) reported: “All the TGCC teams have been mobilized to aid people in their use of this new AMD-Rome partition in Joliot-Curie, specially these included in initiatives from COVID-19. The CEA is very pleased to be equipped to aid French and European exploration many thanks to its skills produced in the definition of laptop or computer center architectures, the implementation and use of supercomputers and their environment, notably by Joliot-Curie“.

The AMD partition of Joliot-Curie was funded underneath the European challenge PPI4HPC (H2020-754271), which aims to get modern computing and storage methods, by a joint procurement coordinated by GENCI, for main HPC facilities CEA/GENCI, CINECA (Italy), JUELICH (Germany) and BSC (Spain).

Furthermore, GENCI, CEA and Atos are very pleased to announce the acquisition of a new state-of-the-art ARM A64FX Fujitsu partition underneath PPI4HPC to even more enhance the capabilities of the Joliot-Curie device and aid constructing the path to Exascale** for European and French researchers.

***

About Atos
Atos is a world leader in electronic transformation with one hundred ten,000 personnel in seventy three nations and annual revenue of € twelve billion. European variety one in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Substantial-Effectiveness Computing, the Team provides conclusion-to-conclusion Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Huge Information, Business enterprise Apps and Digital Workplace methods. The Team is the Throughout the world Facts Technological innovation Lover for the Olympic & Paralympic Video games and operates underneath the brand names Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), shown on the CAC40 Paris stock index.
The reason of Atos is to enable layout the foreseeable future of the facts area. Its skills and providers aid the advancement of awareness, training and exploration in a multicultural method and lead to the advancement of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the planet, the Team permits its clients and personnel, and users of societies at massive to are living, operate and build sustainably, in a protected and safe facts area.

Press get in touch with:
Laura Fau | [email protected] | +33 6 seventy three 64 04 18 | @laurajanefau

About GENCI
GENCI is a civil society underneath French regulation, forty nine% owned by the State represented by the Ministère de de l’Enseignement Supérieur de la Recherche et de l’Innovation (MESRI), 20% by CEA, 20% by CNRS, ten% by the Universities represented by the Conférence des Présidents d’Universités and one% by Inria. Created in 2007 by the French community authorities, GENCI is aimed at inserting France amid the main nations within just Europe and on the global phase in HPC and AI. In this context, GENCI has the missions to put into practice the French nationwide technique by equipping with HPC and significant information storage resources the 3 nationwide computing centres in get to aid scientific open up exploration, to lead constructing an European built-in HPC ecosystem and to market AI, numerical simulation and HPC within just the tutorial and industrial exploration communities.
www.genci.fr

Press Call:
Annabel Truong | [email protected] | Tel: +33 6 03 18 09 02

About CEA
The CEA is a French community exploration organisation serving industry, specialising in 4 primary locations: electricity changeover and very low-carbon energies, electronic transformation, well being and biotechnologies, defence and security. It carries out the missions entrusted to it by the French governing administration. With its 20,000 personnel and nine exploration centres geared up with really massive infrastructures, the CEA relies on fundamental exploration of excellence. It is included in nationwide, European and global initiatives with a extensive variety of tutorial and industrial companions. The CEA ranks as the main exploration organisation filing patents in France and Europe according to the Clarivate position (2019).

For more facts: http://www.cea.fr/english

Press Call:
Camille Decroix | [email protected] | Tel: +33 6 sixty three 68 52 83
Tuline Laeser | [email protected] | Tel : +33 6 twelve 04 40 22

Graphic: (C) P. Stroppa – CEA.

*CEA’s initial contract started with Bull, which was acquired by Atos in 2014 and is now completely built-in into Atos.
**The exascale is the exaflopic scale, understanding that one exaflop corresponds to one billion billion functions for every 2nd.