“Topaze”: a new computer at the CCRT co-designed by Atos and the CEA to meet the challenges of high-performance computing and data processing

Paris, France – June 23 2021

The CEA and its partners at the Investigate and Technology Computing Center (CCRT) have invested in a new supercomputer, named ‘Topaze’, based on the BullSequana XH2000 option from Atos, and set up in the CEA’s Very Big Computing Center (TGCC[one]) at Bruyères-le-Châtel in Essonne (south of Paris). It will be open to the very first users at the conclusion of June 2021, to start off the ‘Grand Challenges’ period, for really big-scale simulations.

‘Topaze’ is part of Atos’ variety of HPC supercomputers, acquired following a call for tenders, and is the outcome of joint R&D by Atos and the CEA’s Military services Applications Directorate (DAM). It has a peak computing electricity of all around eight.eight petaflops[2].

The new personal computer contains a typical-objective partition of 864 nodes equipped with the latest AMD EPYC Milan 7763 processors, an accelerated partition of forty eight nodes based on Nvidia A100 processors and 4 really big memory nodes. A DDN[three] storage system with a potential of roughly three petabytes and a bandwidth of 280 gigabytes/s completes the computation part.

atos-topaze As partners of the CCRT, the teams from ArianeGroup, the CEA, Cerfacs, EDF, France Génomique, IFPEN, Ineris, Ingeliance, IRSN, L’Oréal, Michelin, Onera, the Safran Team, Synchrotron SOLEIL, TechnicAtome, Thales Defence Mission Devices, Thales Alenia Space and Valeo will have entry to the latest era of computing and details processing sources needed for the achievements of their projects.

Superior-overall performance electronic simulation is an indispensable asset for innovation in several fields, these kinds of as studies on the enhancement of new plane and helicopter engines, electricity and ecological changeover systems, the layout and security of nuclear reactors, environmental threat investigation, the layout of new ‘flexible’ satellites, the study of proteins and the decoding of the genome, the layout and manufacture of tires and integrated units for automobiles, investigate into new supplies, and the enhancement of extra environmentally pleasant cosmetics.

The CCRT’s partnership product, founded in 2003, has demonstrated its ability to reply in a sustainable way tailor-made to the escalating needs of market. It gives a extensive variety of techniques in the industry of large-overall performance calculations and processing, combining security, innovation and overall flexibility in the use of sources. This product is based on numerous conversations and working sessions concerning the partners in purchase to share needs and suggestions.

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About Atos

Atos is a global leader in electronic transformation with one zero five,000 workforce and annual revenue of over € eleven billion. European variety one in cybersecurity, cloud and large overall performance computing, the Team delivers tailor-made conclusion-to-conclusion solutions for all industries in seventy one nations around the world. A pioneer in decarbonization companies and goods, Atos is committed to a secure and decarbonized electronic for its clientele. Atos operates beneath the models Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), outlined on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.

The objective of Atos is to assistance layout the upcoming of the information room. Its experience and companies assistance the enhancement of knowledge, education and learning and investigate in a multicultural strategy and add to the enhancement of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the entire world, the Team enables its buyers and workforce, and associates of societies at big to are living, perform and produce sustainably, in a protected and secure information room. www.atos.net

About the CEA

The CEA is a crucial participant in investigate, enhancement and innovation in 4 main areas: electricity changeover, electronic changeover, technologies for the medication of the upcoming and protection and security. With a workforce of 20,000 individuals, based in nine web sites equipped with really big-scale investigate infrastructures, the CEA actively participates in collaborative jobs with a big variety of educational and industrial partners, in France, Europe and all over the world.

For extra information: www.cea.fr

Via its Military services Applications Division (CEA-DAM), the CEA is tasked with overseeing France’s protection and security plans. It types, manufactures and assures the security and reliability of France’s nuclear deterrent warheads. It types and makes the nuclear steam supply units that electricity the French Navy’s vessels. The CEA also delivers technical assistance to the Authorities aimed at protecting against nuclear proliferation and terrorism, as effectively as delivering its experience to advise the French Defense Ministry on assessing and controlling the effects of common weapons units and their vulnerability.

[one] The CEA’s Very Big Computing Center (TGCC) is an infrastructure operated by teams from the DAM Île-de-France centre and made to host supercomputers, with all the computing sources and companies adapted to large-overall performance electronic processing.

[2] one million billion functions per next.

[three] DataDirect Networks