Atos and Graphcore partner to deliver advanced AI HPC solutions worldwide
Paris (France) and Bristol (British isles) – July 22, 2021
Atos and Graphcore currently announce that they have signed a partnership to accelerate functionality and innovation in Synthetic Intelligence (AI) by integrating Graphcore’s superior IPU compute techniques into Atos’ not long ago introduced ThinkAI giving to convey AI higher-efficiency alternatives to consumers worldwide.
This partnership will mutually profit each functions. Atos’ lengthy-standing placement as a European leader in substantial-effectiveness computing (HPC) and dependable advisor, provider and integrator of HPC solutions at scale will give Graphcore entry to a multitude of new consumers, sectors and geographies. Graphcore in switch will function with Atos globally to develop its international get to by focusing on large company business in sectors which includes finance, health care, telecoms and customer web as perfectly as national labs and universities targeted on scientific investigate, which are promptly developing their AI abilities.
ThinkAI brings with each other Atos’ AI enterprise consultancy knowledge – with its industry experts at the AtosCenter of Excellence in Sophisticated Computing – with its electronic protection abilities and its program, these as Atos HPC Application Suites, to enable companies to speed up time to AI operationalization and industrialization.
Graphcore, the Uk-headquartered maker of the Intelligence Processing Device (IPU), plays a important position in Atos’ ThinkAI giving, which is concentrated on the twin aims of accelerating pure synthetic intelligence purposes and augmenting regular HPC simulation with AI. Graphcore’s IPU-POD programs for scale-up datacentre computing will be an integral part of ThinkAI.
Even in advance of today’s formal launch of the partnership, the two corporations welcomed their 1st significant joint buyer, a single of the biggest cloud providers in South Korea, which will be employing Graphcore systems in large-scale AI cloud datacenters, in a deal facilitated by Atos.
“ThinkAI represents a massive motivation to the upcoming of synthetic intelligence by a single of the world’s most trustworthy technological innovation companies. For Atos to have place Graphcore as a crucial aspect of its strategy suggests a great offer about the maturity of our hardware and program, and the ability of our devices to produce on buyer requirements,” mentioned Fabrice Moizan, GM and SVP Product sales EMEAI and Asia Pacific at Graphcore.
Agnès Boudot, Senior Vice President, Head of HPC & Quantum at Atos stated: “With ThinkAI, we’re producing it probable for companies from any market to obtain breakthroughs with AI. Graphcore’s IPU hardware and Poplar® software program is opening up new chances for innovators to check out the likely of AI for their corporations, complemented with our sector-tailor-made AI business enterprise consultancy, digital protection capabilities and software program, we’re excited to be orchestrating these slicing-edge technologies in our ThinkAI option.”
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About Atos
Atos is a international leader in electronic transformation with 105,000 employees and once-a-year revenue of over € 11 billion. European quantity just one in cybersecurity, cloud and substantial general performance computing, the Group provides tailor-made stop-to-conclude solutions for all industries in 71 nations around the world. A pioneer in decarbonization services and items, Atos is fully commited to a protected and decarbonized digital for its clientele. Atos operates below 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 support style the upcoming of the facts space. Its expertise and services assistance the advancement of know-how, schooling and investigate in a multicultural approach and add to the advancement of scientific and technological excellence. Across the planet, the Group permits its consumers and personnel, and customers of societies at massive to live, operate and create sustainably, in a secure and protected information space.
About Graphcore
Graphcore is the inventor of the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), the world’s most complex microprocessor, specifically designed for the demands of latest and following-era synthetic intelligence workloads.
Graphcore’s IPU-POD datacenter devices, for scale up and scale out AI compute, present the potential to run huge versions across multiple IPUs, or to share the compute source in between various users and workloads.
Given that its founding in 2016, Graphcore has raised more than $730 million in funding.
Traders involve Sequoia Funds, Microsoft, Dell, Samsung, BMW iVentures, Robert Bosch Enterprise Cash, as properly as main AI innovators which includes Demis Hassabis (Deepmind), Pieter Abbeel (UC Berkeley), and Zoubin Ghahramani (Google Mind).
Extra info can be uncovered at https://www.graphcore.ai
Push contacts:
Atos: Laura Fau | [email protected] | +33 6 73 64 04 18 | @laurajanefau
Graphcore: Iain Mackenzie | [email protected] | +447977 015577
