Unprecedented performance with increased efficiency

Paris, France, September 18 2019

Atos, a glo­bal lea­der in digi­tal trans­for­ma­ti­on, today announ­ces that its Bull­Se­qua­na XH2000 super­com­pu­ter powered by an AMD EPYC™ 7H12 Series Pro­ces­sor has set four new world-records in ser­ver performance.

Thanks to the BullSequana’s Enhan­ced Direct Liquid Coo­ling sys­tem and the powerful AMD EPYC 7H12 pro­ces­sor, the Atos mea­su­re­ments curr­ent­ly top the best published results for two-socket nodes on four SPE­Cra­te® bench­marks.* Addi­tio­nal­ly it has set a new record for the HPL Lin­pack Bench­mark on an AMD EPYC CPU, with an 11% increase in per­for­mance.** The­se mea­su­re how hard­ware sys­tems per­form under com­pu­te-inten­si­ve workloads based on real-world appli­ca­ti­ons.  The Bull­Se­qua­na sur­pas­ses pre­vious records*** (records using both AMD and non-AMD pro­ces­sors) for all 5 benchmarks.

The Bull­Se­qua­na XH2000’s enhan­ced DLC (Direct Liquid Coo­ling) was essen­ti­al in enab­ling the AMD’s 280W EPYC™ 7H12 pro­ces­sor to reach its maxi­mum level of per­for­mance. The results show­ed an unpre­ce­den­ted per­for­mance for BullSequana’s lowest power con­sump­ti­on. Power effi­ci­en­cy is a key prio­ri­ty for lar­ge data cen­ters when it comes to sel­ec­ting a super­com­pu­ter, as it trans­la­tes into an opti­mal TCO (Total Cost of Owner­ship) enab­ling mil­li­ons to be saved over the pro­ject lifespan.

“We’re extre­me­ly proud that our Bull­Se­qua­na has achie­ved the­se world-record results. Our uni­que Enhan­ced Direct Liquid Coo­ling sys­tem pro­vi­ded the most effi­ci­ent envi­ron­ment for achie­ving such per­for­mance of the AMD EPYC pro­ces­sor,” said Agnès Bou­dot, Seni­or Vice Pre­si­dent, Head of HPC & Quan­tum at Atos. “Our Bull­Se­qua­na equip­ped with the latest AMD chip, pro­vi­des our cus­to­mers with the hig­hest available per­for­mance for HPC and AI workloads, with an opti­mi­zed TCO, to sup­port them in going bey­ond the limits of tra­di­tio­nal simulation.”

Seve­ral cli­ents world­wi­de have alre­a­dy sel­ec­ted the Bull­Se­qua­na super­com­pu­ter powered with an AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors for an enhan­ced com­pu­ting capa­ci­ty to super­char­ge their workloads. This includes French natio­nal high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting orga­niza­ti­on GENCI, the IT Cen­ter for Sci­ence (CSC) in Fin­land,  natio­nal Nor­we­gi­an e‑infrastructure pro­vi­der Uni­nett Sigma2, a major Euro­pean wea­ther fore­cast cen­ter and an Ame­ri­can mul­ti-natio­nal con­su­mer goods giant.

 “Taking on the pro­ces­sing chal­lenges of the world’s hig­hest per­forming sys­tems meant crea­ting a solu­ti­on up to the task, which AMD achie­ved with the 2^nd Gene­ra­ti­on AMD EPYC pro­ces­sor,” said Scott Aylor, cor­po­ra­te vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, AMD dat­a­cen­ter solu­ti­ons. “When pai­red with Atos’ Bull­Se­qua­na and their own impres­si­ve capa­bi­li­ties and cus­to­mer rela­ti­onships, we can deli­ver a who­le new ran­ge of pos­si­bi­li­ties to address the pro­ces­sing needs of the modern datacenter.”

 

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* Stan­dard Per­for­mance Eva­lua­ti­on Cor­po­ra­ti­on (SPEC) CPU 2017 bench­mark is desi­gned to pro­vi­de per­for­mance mea­su­re­ments that can be used to compa­re com­pu­te-inten­si­ve workloads on dif­fe­rent com­pu­ter sys­tems, inclu­ding SPEC­speed 2017 Inte­ger, SPEC­speed 2017 Floa­ting Point, SPE­Cra­te 2017 Inte­ger and SPE­Cra­te 2017 Floa­ting Point.

Atos results – curr­ent­ly under review by the SPEC Committee:

SPECrate®2017_Int_base 692

SPECrate2017®_fp_base 528

SPECrate®2017_fr_peak 586

SPECrate®_int_peak 754

** HPL Lin­pack Bench­mark — 4,296 giga­flops on the AMD EPYC 7H12 as com­pared to the EPYC 7742 HPL num­bers based on AMD refe­rence sys­tem testing.

*** Pre­vious records

Results for non-AMD-based pro­ces­sor (pre­vious world-record, achie­ved July 2019):

SPECrate2017_Int_base 643

SPECrate2017_fp 522

Results from AMD-based pro­ces­sor (pre­vious world-record, achie­ved August 2019):

SPECrate2017_Int_base 682

SPECrate2017_fp 524

SPE­Cra­te fr peak 577

SPE­Crat­eint peak 749

About Atos

Atos is a glo­bal lea­der in digi­tal trans­for­ma­ti­on with over 110,000 employees in 73 count­ries and annu­al reve­nue of over € 11 bil­li­on. Euro­pean num­ber one in Cloud, Cyber­se­cu­ri­ty and High-Per­for­mance Com­pu­ting, the Group pro­vi­des end-to-end Orchestra­ted Hybrid Cloud, Big Data, Busi­ness Appli­ca­ti­ons and Digi­tal Work­place solu­ti­ons. The group is the World­wi­de Infor­ma­ti­on Tech­no­lo­gy Part­ner for the Olym­pic & Para­lym­pic Games and ope­ra­tes under the brands Atos, Atos Syn­tel, and Uni­fy. Atos is a SE (Socie­tas Euro­paea), lis­ted on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The pur­po­se of Atos is to help design the future of the infor­ma­ti­on tech­no­lo­gy space. Its exper­ti­se and ser­vices sup­port the deve­lo­p­ment of know­ledge, edu­ca­ti­on as well as mul­ti­cul­tu­ral and plu­ra­li­stic approa­ches to rese­arch that con­tri­bu­te to sci­en­ti­fic and tech­no­lo­gi­cal excel­lence. Across the world, the group enables its cus­to­mers, employees and col­la­bo­ra­tors, and mem­bers of socie­ties at lar­ge to live, work and deve­lop sus­tain­ab­ly and con­fi­dent­ly in the infor­ma­ti­on tech­no­lo­gy space.