Super­com­pu­ter instal­led at CEA TGCC (Very Lar­ge Com­pu­ting Centre)

SC’19, Denver; Paris, France, November 18, 2019

GENCI (the French natio­nal high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting orga­niza­ti­on) and Atos, a glo­bal lea­der in digi­tal trans­for­ma­ti­on, today announ­ce that the latest exten­si­on of its Joli­ot-Curie super­com­pu­ter, instal­led by Atos and admi­nis­te­red by the CEA teams at its TGCC (Very Lar­ge Com­pu­ting Cent­re), and based on Atos’ record-brea­king Bull­Se­qua­na XH2000 solu­ti­on, is now live. It is the first ope­ra­tio­nal super­com­pu­ter world­wi­de to include the AMD next-gene­ra­ti­on EPYC™ 7H12 Series Processors.

Today this exten­si­on of the Joli­ot-Curie super­com­pu­ter enters into the TOP100 glo­bal ran­king in 59th posi­ti­on, with a sus­tained revi­sed per­for­mance, thus far, of more than 5 PFlops, making it the first AMD EPYC™ 64-core 280W equip­ped super­com­pu­ter in the glo­bal ran­king. The Bull­Se­qua­na XH2000’s DLC (Direct Liquid Coo­ling) sys­tem and its ener­gy-effi­ci­ent archi­tec­tu­re were essen­ti­al in ensu­ring that the super­com­pu­ter could reach a maxi­mum level of per­for­mance to gua­ran­tee a com­mit­ted Total Cost of Owner­ship (TCO) on rele­vant appli­ca­ti­ons. This result was achie­ved with the tech­ni­cal exper­ti­se of the CEA’s Direc­to­ra­te of Mili­ta­ry Appli­ca­ti­ons HPC teams and Atos HPC teams.

This exten­si­on is part of the Euro­pean pro­ject PPI4HPC, which aims to acqui­re inno­va­ti­ve com­pu­ting and sto­rage solu­ti­ons, through a joint pro­cu­re­ment coor­di­na­ted by GENCI, for lea­ding HPC cen­tres CEA/GENCI, CINECA (Ita­ly), JUELICH (Ger­ma­ny) and BSC (Spain).

“The first simu­la­ti­on results which were run on this new super­com­pu­ter demons­tra­te the rele­van­ce and per­for­mance of the solu­ti­on deli­ver­ed by Atos,” said Sté­pha­ne Reque­na, CTO of GENCI. “This solu­ti­on will ensu­re a fast and effi­ci­ent port­ing of sci­en­ti­fic appli­ca­ti­ons on upco­ming den­ser archi­tec­tures, while gua­ran­te­e­ing an opti­mal sus­tained Watt per GFlops ratio.”

“We’re real­ly deligh­ted to work with GENCI on this exten­si­on of the Joli­ot-Curie super­com­pu­ter, the first super­com­pu­ter instal­led and soon-to-be ope­ra­tio­nal in the TOP500 with the AMD next-gene­ra­ti­on EPYC™ 7H12 Series Pro­ces­sors.” said Agnès Bou­dot, Seni­or Vice Pre­si­dent, Head of HPC & Quan­tum at Atos.

“AMD 2nd Gen EPYC pro­ces­sors are chan­ging the rules of high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting, deli­ve­ring record-brea­king per­for­mance and enab­ling more powerful super­com­pu­ting sys­tems than ever befo­re,” said For­rest Nor­rod, seni­or vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger of the Dat­a­cen­ter and Embedded Sys­tems Group, AMD. “We are thril­led to see our latest EPYC 7H12 pro­ces­sor land on the Top500 list. Con­gra­tu­la­ti­ons to Atos and GENCI on this major mile­stone, and we look for­ward to con­tin­ued col­la­bo­ra­ti­on and inno­va­ti­on as we enter the exas­ca­le era.”

The super­com­pu­ter exten­si­on will soon be ful­ly ope­ra­tio­nal at the CEA’s TGCC (Very Lar­ge Com­pu­ting Cent­re) in Bruyè­res-le-Châ­tel and open to sci­ence and indus­try rese­ar­chers via call-for-pro­po­sals led by GENCI and PRACE (the Euro­pean HPC rese­arch infra­struc­tu­re). The Joli­ot-Curie will exceed a total cumu­la­ted theo­re­ti­cal peak per­for­mance of 22 PFlops.

Atos will be at SC’19 from 18–21 Novem­ber 2019 in Den­ver and will exhi­bit the full ran­ge of its High Per­for­mance Com­pu­ting offer on booth #1125.

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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.

Press cont­act:

Lau­ra Fau | laura.fau@atos.net | +33 6 73 64 04 18 | @laurajanefau

About GENCI
GENCI, Natio­nal Equip­ment Inten­si­ve Com­pu­ting, is a civil socie­ty owned 49% by the Sta­te, repre­sen­ted by the Minis­try of Hig­her Edu­ca­ti­on of Rese­arch and Inno­va­ti­on (MESRI), 20% by the CEA, 20 % by the CNRS, 10% by the Uni­ver­si­ties and 1% by Inria. Born from the poli­ti­cal desi­re to place France at the best Euro­pean and inter­na­tio­nal level in the field of inten­si­ve com­pu­ting, with the weight of the asso­cia­ti­on of main actors of the aca­de­mic rese­arch and the sup­port of the public aut­ho­ri­ties, GENCI pur­sues three gre­at mis­si­ons sin­ce its crea­ti­on in 2007: to finan­ce and coor­di­na­te the imple­men­ta­ti­on of a stra­te­gic plan of equip­ment of natio­nal cen­ters of com­pu­ta­ti­on inten­si­ve for the civil rese­arch; to be a major play­er in the orga­niza­ti­on and the rea­liza­ti­on of a Euro­pean space for inten­si­ve com­pu­ting for rese­arch (as such, GENCI repres­ents France within PRACE); to pro­mo­te simu­la­ti­on and inten­si­ve com­pu­ting in basic and indus­tri­al rese­arch. For more infor­ma­ti­on: http://www.genci.fr/en

Cont­act
Séveri­ne SAINT HUBERT | + 33 1 42 50 04 15 | Severine.saint-hubert@genci.fr

About the CEA/TGCC

The CEA is ful­ly invol­ved in the natio­nal and Euro­pean stra­tegy for high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting (HPC) and mas­si­ve data (Big Data). The CEA’s Very Lar­ge Com­pu­ting Cent­re (TGCC) is part of this frame­work. The super­com­pu­ters ope­ra­ted by the CEA’s Mili­ta­ry Appli­ca­ti­on Divi­si­on (CEA/DAM), such as the Joli­ot-Curie machi­ne, are made available for rese­arch pur­po­ses, but also for indus­try with the Cobalt super­com­pu­ter. They are the result of R&D con­duc­ted by CEA/DAM with Atos to meet the needs of Defen­se, Indus­try and Rese­arch. The very high level of requi­re­ments requi­red makes it pos­si­ble to offer super­com­pu­ters at the hig­hest level in the world.