Atos delivers BullSequana X410 supercomputer to Swansea University

Swansea (Wales), London (British isles), Paris (France), March ten 2021

Atos today declared that it has signed a deal with Swansea College to deploy its BullSequana X410 supercomputer, constructed on the new NVIDIA A100 Tensor Main GPU architecture and NVIDIA Mellanox HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand networking, which will empower academics in Swansea and throughout Wales to push ground-breaking exploration dependent on superior device learning and deep learning algorithms.

The largest NVIDIA A100 deployments within Wales, this significant-efficiency supercomputer varieties element of Atos’ current romance with Supercomputing Wales – an Atos and Dell EMC supercomputing Centre of Excellence partially funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as a result of the Welsh Govt.

Part of the ‘AccelerateAI’ initiative, also funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as a result of the Welsh Govt, this GPU-accelerated supercomputer will empower exploration groups with concentrations in mathematics, engineering, science and drugs throughout Wales to deliver advancements in reducing-edge AI exploration and in industrial programs.

The NVIDIA A100 Tensor Main GPUs put in within the BullSequana X410 supercomputer are really parallel processors created to boost computing. The integration of up to eight GPUs within a 2U kind component sites this technique at the forefront of today’s accelerated computing alternatives, in terms of compute density, efficiency and price tag-performance. The supercomputer will also leverage NVIDIA Mellanox HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand’s quickly facts in the course of, exceptionally lower latency, and clever In-Community Computing engines, enabling point out-of-the-artwork efficiency for a wide array of HPC and AI programs that will further push Swansea University’s exploration.

The AI supercomputer will be dependent at Swansea University’s electricity-productive Bay Facts Centre, the place Atos will preserve the devices and work intently with academics to support handle their particular exploration requires.

Agnès Boudot, Senior Vice President, Head of HPC & Quantum at Atos, claimed: “The BullSequana will offer scientists throughout Wales with point out-of-the-artwork hardware to empower new scientific advancements on device learning and deep learning algorithms. As the very first huge-scale deployment of the NVIDIA A100 architecture, we feel this is an interesting milestone for supercomputing-enabled exploration in Wales, supporting its ambition to be a environment leader in significant-efficiency computing as element of the Supercomputing Wales project.”

Professor Biagio Lucini, Director of the Swansea Academy of Highly developed Computing at Swansea College, claimed: “We are happy that the supply of this reducing-edge, AI BullSequana X410 supercomputer will empower academics throughout Wales to push forward perhaps ground-breaking discoveries. Setting up on the accomplishment of the Supercomputing Wales project, this really impressive devices will strengthen how AI is applied into marketplace and made use of to resolve exploration challenges, even though strengthening Wales’ situation as a major supercomputing hub.”

“HPC and AI have turn into the foundation on which we notice the alternatives to the world’s most intricate and tough challenges,“ claimed Rod Evans, EMEA Director for Supercomputing, Higher Schooling and AI at NVIDIA. “That is why NVIDIA has constructed the world’s most strong and entire AI supercomputing platform that supplies the steadiness and efficiency essential for HPC and AI scientists.”

Researchers from other Universities within the Supercomputing Wales consortium – together with Cardiff, Aberystwyth and Bangor – will have accessibility to the significant-efficiency technique, aiding to assistance the country’s ambition to contend globally for exploration and innovation jobs. In collaboration with area SMEs, the project will also speed up adoption of AI strategies in Welsh marketplace.

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