Atos and ECMWF launch Center of Excellence in Weather & Climate Modelling to support researchers with HPC, AI and quantum capabilities

London and Examining, Uk Paris, France Bologna, Italy – Oct 5 2020

Atos, a international chief in electronic transformation, and  the European Middle for Medium-Assortment Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), nowadays announce a new Middle of Excellence in HPC, AI and Quantum computing for Weather & Climate. The Middle will be dependent at ECMWF’s headquarters in Examining, Uk, the place it will deliver their staff of global researchers with obtain to emerging AI (Synthetic Intelligence) and Quantum Computing technologies and skills, and advantage from ECMWF’s substantial-overall performance computing (HPC) assets to be quickly found in Bologna, Italy. The goal is to help ECMWF scientists in their perform on medium and long-vary temperature forecasting and prediction and international weather modelling.

Making use of these most recent developments in technological innovation, ECMWF researchers will be able to make improvements to the capability to forecast the prevalence and depth of serious temperature activities and other new temperature phenomena activated by weather modify. Outfitted with Atos’ most recent BullSequana supercomputer, the Middle of Excellence will also be supported by Atos specialists and technological innovation partners who will collaborate specifically with ECMWF exploration scientists in get to establish new procedures to help subsequent-technology temperature forecasting, support boost weather and temperature discovery and innovation, and support get ready ECMWF for foreseeable future HPC and information handling architectures.

“Bringing with each other earth-class specialists in computing, computational science and Earth technique science is important to continuing to progress our medium- and long-vary temperature forecasting. The Middle builds on a past thriving collaboration with Atos and will engage in a substantial part in assisting us to make improvements to and reliably forecast the prevalence and depth of serious temperature activities and other activities associated with weather modify drastically forward of time,” stated Dr Florence Rabier, Director Standard at ECMWF. “Technological know-how will engage in a important part in supporting our specialists in the industry and enabling partners in our 34 Member and Co-functioning States across Europe to carry on to secure daily life and property in their international locations.”

Pierre Barnabé, Senior Executive Vice-President, Head of Major Info & Cybersecurity at Atos stated: “We are thrilled to set up this Middle of Excellence with each other with ECMWF, the place researchers will be able to examine the distinct usages of HPC and AI as a result of evidence of thought creation, as effectively as innovation workshops, classes and conferences. Superior-overall performance Computing assisted by synthetic intelligence retains huge opportunity for the weather and temperature. It also introduces new solutions and procedures that are only just becoming readily available.”

As aspect of the new Middle of Excellence, a person of the preliminary projects will be to establish Machine discovering options for apps across the numerical temperature prediction workflow that are custom made in the direction of the requires of Earth technique modelling. A 2nd project will search to establish a CPU-GPU-dependent edition of ECMWF’s Built-in Forecasting System (IFS) and the wave product WAM, and to get ready the ECMWF product-technology pipeline and information-centric workflows for new technologies.

As aspect of the Atos Middle of Excellence (CoE) in Sophisticated Computing, the Weather & Climate CoE is Atos’ 2nd CoE dedicated to HPC, AI and quantum technologies which is centered on a scientific area. The first staying introduced on eight July, with each other with the Wellcome Genome Campus and which is centered on Lifetime Sciences.

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The exploration will be run by ECMWF’s new Atos BullSequana XH2000 supercomputer, a person of the most impressive meteorological supercomputers in the earth. The technique is outfitted with BullSequana X2415 blades, utilizing NVIDIA’s subsequent-technology graphics processing unit architecture, the NVIDIA® A100 Tensor Main GPU, and is supported by Atos Codex AI Suite, the most detailed AI computer software suite on the sector. This will deliver superior GPU computing and AI functionality to help ECMWF researchers to pace-up processing times on the most complicated information, enabling them to achieve insights more quickly, utilizing the energy of deep discovering and analytics.

The Middle of Excellence will also have obtain to Atos’ Quantum Discovering Machine (QLM), the most superior Quantum Computing Simulator readily available nowadays, to examine how quantum computing could effect temperature and weather prediction in the foreseeable future. The Middle will also be supported by expert personnel from AMD, Mellanox, Nvidia and DDN, making it possible for it to examine accelerated computing procedures as effectively as problems associated to storage and information obtain.

About Atos

Atos is a international chief in electronic transformation with a hundred and ten,000 staff members in 73 international locations and annual revenue of € 12 billion. European amount a person in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Superior-Effectiveness Computing, the Group provides close-to-close Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Major Info, Organization Programs and Electronic Workplace options. In the Uk & Ireland Atos provides small business technological innovation options for some of the country’s largest general public and personal sector organisations The Group is the Globally Details Technological know-how Spouse for the Olympic & Paralympic Online games and operates under the makes Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), mentioned on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.

The function of Atos is to support layout the foreseeable future of the data room. Its skills and expert services help the growth of information, schooling and exploration in a multicultural solution and contribute to the growth of scientific and technological excellence. Across the earth, the Group allows its prospects and staff members, and members of societies at substantial to live, perform and establish sustainably, in a risk-free and protected data room.

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About ECMWF

Headquartered in Examining in the Uk, and with its information centre in Bologna, Italy, ECMWF is an independent intergovernmental firm supported by 34 Member and Co-functioning States across Europe and retains the largest archive of numerical temperature prediction information in the earth. Its most important mission is to deliver its buyers with numerical temperature predictions covering medium to long ranges. Over the earlier few several years, ECMWF has also made a robust partnership with the EU and is an entrusted entity for the implementation and procedure of the Climate Adjust and Atmosphere Checking Companies of the floor-breaking EU Copernicus Programme.

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