MareNostrum5 will be having a power capacity up to 314 Petaflops, or at least 314 million billion calculations per second

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Atos has won a contract from the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) to provide pre-exascale system called the MareNostrum5 to be hosted at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) in Spain.

The new supercomputer is expected to support the objective of the European Union (EU) to give European scientists and industry access to cutting-edge high performance computing (HPC) infrastructures and services.

MareNostrum 5 is co-funded with a budget of €1.51bn by the EuroHPC JU, which is a consortium of three countries, Spain, Portugal, and Turkey.

The primary goal of the pre-exascale system is for bolstering medical research capabilities across Europe.

Atos is also supplying pre-exascale systems for five other EuroHPC projects.

MareNostrum5 will have a power capacity up to 314 Petaflops, or at least 314 million billion calculations per second.

The system is customised to not only strengthen European drug research, vaccine development, virus spread simulations but also artificial intelligence (AI) and big data processing applications.

Besides, MareNostrum5 will be unlocking computing performance for HPC specific complex applications like climate research, material science, engineering, and earth sciences, which have to be managed out of the cloud.

BSC-CNS director Mateo Valero said: “The acquisition of MareNostrum 5 will enable world-changing scientific breakthroughs such as the creation of digital twins to help solve global challenges like climate change and the advancement of precision medicine.

“In addition, BSC-CNS is committed to developing European hardware to be used in future generations of supercomputers and helping to achieve technological sovereignty for the EU’s member states.”

Atos, as the main contractor of MareNostrum5, will handle its full delivery.

The company will be supported by ParTec, which will provide core parts of the solution and support it in the technical coordination of the supercomputer project.

Atos said that a large accelerator partition of the pre-exascale system will be based on its recently announced BullSequana XH3000 next-gen hybrid architecture.

Atos group SVP and HPC, AI and quantum global head Emmanuel Le Roux said: “As Europe’s leading supercomputing manufacturer, we are proud to be supporting Europe’s commitment towards technological excellence and sovereignty with the MareNostrum5 pre-exascale system.

“With this solution fully manufactured in Europe, we will support researchers to accelerate scientific discovery and to develop solutions for current and future challenges.”