The new supercomputer is claimed to be fully scalable with a configuration from one PFlops to one ExaFlops for digital simulation and a capability of up to 10 ExaFlops for artificial intelligence (AI) applications
Atos unveils the BullSequana XH3000 supercomputer. (Credit: Atos SE)
French IT company Atos has introduced a new exascale-class supercomputer called the BullSequana XH3000 to help advance research in sectors like weather forecasting and climate change, genomics, and new drug discovery.
The hybrid computing platform was designed and manufactured at Atos’ factory in Angers, France. It is planned to be available from the fourth quarter of this year.
Atos claimed that BullSequana XH3000 is its most efficient and powerful supercomputer and a major element in achieving today’s digital and economic sovereignty.
Atos CEO Rodolphe Belmer said: “We are extremely proud of our role as a leader in HPC and of our new BullSequana supercomputer, revealed today, which results from 15 years of R&D efforts and brings together Atos’ proven expertise and experience in high-performance computing, AI, quantum, security and digital decarbonisation.
“It will no doubt enable, through the gateway of exascale, some of the key scientific and industrial innovation breakthroughs of the future.”
The new machine from the French IT firm is said to have been designed for traditional digital simulation as well as accelerated hybrid computing.
It uses Nvidia central processing unit (CPU), graphics processing unit (GPU) and networking technologies to provide a new level of performance for high-performance computing (HPC), AI, and quantum applications.
BullSequana XH3000 can deliver up to six times increase in computing power than previous versions.
It is claimed to be among the most energy-efficient supercomputers on the market because of its eco-design and architecture, and 4th generation Direct Liquid Cooling (DLC) technology.
The new supercomputer from Atos is claimed to be fully scalable with a configuration from one peta floating-point operations per second (PFlops) to one ExaFlops for digital simulation and a capability of up to 10 ExaFlops for AI applications.
With open Sequana programme, Atos is said to allow the participation of a third-party technology ecosystem to provide customers with a future-proof platform that is ready for quantum accelerators.
The BullSequana XH3000 is powered by the latest CPU and GPU processor and accelerator architectures from AMD, Nvidia, Intel, and also the European microprocessor from SiPearl, for better power capacity and improved performance.
Nvidia HPC/supercomputing sales and business development global vice president John Josephakis said: “By combining the well-known expertise Atos has with NVIDIA AI and HPC technologies and work at our joint lab, this platform will allow researchers to get significant insights much faster to grand challenges both in supercomputing and industrial HPC.”