Atos boosts supercomputing power by 10 for Spanish State Meteorological Agency AEMET
Paris (France), Madrid (Spain), February 23, 2021
Atos announces that it has been picked by the Spanish Condition Meteorological Company (AEMET) to offer and set up its computing and storage know-how, as a result of the tender “Contracting of Source as a result of leasing with no the possibility to invest in a Supercomputing Procedure for the AEMET”. Based mostly on the BullSequana supercomputing architecture from Atos, the new supercomputer will deliver almost ten instances additional computing capacity than the latest 1 which was set up in the 2014.
This new supercomputer will strengthen and develop AEMET’s latest computing abilities to boost exploration in different places such as weather forecasting, weather alter, wave prediction and guidance its collaboration with intercontinental corporations. Additionally, it supports AEMET meet the new strategic, technological and assistance provision challenges, such as preparing, providing and disseminating meteorological data and forecasts, in its 2019-21 Motion Plan, thus consolidating its existence as 1 of the most important meteorological centers in Europe.
“The availability of the new superior-performance procedure will not only enable for better computing capacity and a reduction in the time necessary for the execution of numerical models, but it will also allow us to optimize resources, automate procedures and place in position thorough treatments, to advertise a additional sustainable architecture.” explained Raúl Hilara, Telematics Coordinator of the Condition Meteorological Company at AEMET.
“The reality that AEMET has renewed their confidence in our technological abilities is testomony to our know-how and we are proud that Atos will go on to be their reference know-how service provider in supercomputing, accompanying them in the new challenges of weather forecasting and weather alter. This new success strengthens our motivation as a European chief in the meteorology sector. ” explained José Camacho, director of HPC & Quantum computing of Atos in Iberia.
This job will consist of the set up of two clusters geared up with additional than fifty,000 cores based on AMD EPYC processor know-how, with a capacity five.9 PB of gross storage, linked with a reduced latency interconnect network of 200 Gbits / sec.
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