Atos and Graphcore partner to deliver advanced AI HPC solutions worldwide

Paris (France) and Bristol (British isles) – July 22, 2021

Atos and Graphcore these days announce that they have signed a partnership to accelerate overall performance and innovation in Artificial Intelligence (AI) by integrating Graphcore’s innovative IPU compute units into Atos’ just lately launched ThinkAI offering to convey AI significant-overall performance methods to clients worldwide.

This partnership will mutually reward each get-togethers. Atos’ lengthy-standing place as a European chief in significant-overall performance computing (HPC) and trusted advisor, company and integrator of HPC methods at scale will give Graphcore obtain to a multitude of new clients, sectors and geographies. Graphcore in change will operate with Atos globally to broaden its world wide reach by focusing on substantial corporate business in sectors like finance, health care, telecoms and buyer world wide web as effectively as national labs and universities centered on scientific study, which are swiftly establishing their AI capabilities.

ThinkAI brings alongside one another Atos’ AI company consultancy knowledge – with its professionals at the AtosCenter of Excellence in Highly developed Computing – with its digital security capabilities and its computer software, this sort of as Atos HPC Software Suites, to enable corporations to accelerate time to AI operationalization and industrialization.

Graphcore, the British isles-headquartered maker of the Intelligence Processing Device (IPU), plays a considerable position in Atos’ ThinkAI offering, which is centered on the twin goals of accelerating pure synthetic intelligence purposes and augmenting regular HPC simulation with AI. Graphcore’s IPU-POD units for scale-up datacentre computing will be an integral portion of ThinkAI.

Even prior to today’s formal start of the partnership, the two companies welcomed their initially key joint consumer, just one of the biggest cloud vendors in South Korea, which will be using Graphcore units in substantial-scale AI cloud datacenters, in a offer facilitated by Atos.

ThinkAI signifies a massive commitment to the foreseeable future of synthetic intelligence by just one of the world’s most trusted know-how companies. For Atos to have put Graphcore as a crucial portion of its tactic states a good offer about the maturity of our hardware and computer software, and the capability of our units to deliver on consumer needs,” claimed Fabrice Moizan, GM and SVP Income EMEAI and Asia Pacific at Graphcore.

Agnès Boudot, Senior Vice President, Head of HPC & Quantum at Atos claimed: “With ThinkAI, we’re building it doable for corporations from any business to accomplish breakthroughs with AI. Graphcore’s IPU hardware and Poplar® computer software is opening up new alternatives for innovators to explore the possible of AI for their corporations, complemented with our business-tailored AI company consultancy, digital security capabilities and computer software, we’re excited to be orchestrating these chopping-edge systems in our ThinkAI remedy.”

 

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About Atos

Atos is a world wide chief in digital transformation with one zero five,000 staff and yearly revenue of more than € eleven billion. European range just one in cybersecurity, cloud and significant overall performance computing, the Group presents tailored conclusion-to-conclusion methods for all industries in seventy one countries. A pioneer in decarbonization expert services and merchandise, Atos is dedicated to a protected and decarbonized digital for its clientele. Atos operates underneath the brands Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), stated on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.

The objective of Atos is to assistance style and design the foreseeable future of the information and facts area. Its knowledge and expert services help the development of know-how, training and study in a multicultural approach and lead to the development of scientific and technological excellence. Across the entire world, the Group enables its clients and staff, and customers of societies at substantial to dwell, operate and produce sustainably, in a protected and protected information and facts area.

About Graphcore

Graphcore is the inventor of the Intelligence Processing Device (IPU), the world’s most innovative microprocessor, particularly developed for the needs of present-day and up coming-generation synthetic intelligence workloads.  

Graphcore’s IPU-POD datacenter units, for scale up and scale out AI compute, give the capability to run substantial models across many IPUs, or to share the compute source concerning unique people and workloads.

Considering the fact that its founding in 2016, Graphcore has lifted more than $730 million in funding.  

Buyers incorporate Sequoia Money, Microsoft, Dell, Samsung, BMW iVentures, Robert Bosch Enterprise Money, as effectively as foremost AI innovators like Demis Hassabis (Deepmind), Pieter Abbeel (UC Berkeley), and Zoubin Ghahramani (Google Brain).

Far more information and facts can be identified at https://www.graphcore.ai 

 

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Atos: Laura Fau | [email protected] | +33 6 seventy three 64 04 eighteen | @laurajanefau

Graphcore: Iain Mackenzie | [email protected] | +447977 015577