“Topaze”: a new computer at the CCRT co-designed by Atos and the CEA to meet the challenges of high-performance computing and data processing

Paris, France – June 23 2021

The CEA and its partners at the Investigation and Technology Computing Center (CCRT) have invested in a new supercomputer, named ‘Topaze’, centered on the BullSequana XH2000 option from Atos, and set up in the CEA’s Really Big Computing Center (TGCC[one]) at Bruyères-le-Châtel in Essonne (south of Paris). It will be open up to the initial end users at the stop of June 2021, to start off the ‘Grand Challenges’ period, for extremely large-scale simulations.

‘Topaze’ is component of Atos’ range of HPC supercomputers, acquired following a contact for tenders, and is the end result of joint R&D by Atos and the CEA’s Military Applications Directorate (DAM). It has a peak computing ability of around eight.eight petaflops[2].

The new computer system involves a typical-intent partition of 864 nodes geared up with the latest AMD EPYC Milan 7763 processors, an accelerated partition of forty eight nodes centered on Nvidia A100 processors and four extremely large memory nodes. A DDN[3] storage system with a capability of approximately 3 petabytes and a bandwidth of 280 gigabytes/s completes the computation component.

As partners of the CCRT, the teams from ArianeGroup, the CEA, Cerfacs, EDF, France Génomique, IFPEN, Ineris, Ingeliance, IRSN, L’Oréal, Michelin, Onera, the Safran Group, Synchrotron SOLEIL, TechnicAtome, Thales Defence Mission Techniques, Thales Alenia Room and Valeo will have entry to the latest generation of computing and facts processing methods expected for the achievements of their projects.

Substantial-general performance electronic simulation is an indispensable asset for innovation in numerous fields, these types of as research on the development of new plane and helicopter engines, electrical power and ecological changeover technologies, the style and safety of nuclear reactors, environmental danger assessment, the style of new ‘flexible’ satellites, the research of proteins and the decoding of the genome, the style and manufacture of tires and integrated systems for cars, study into new products, and the development of additional environmentally welcoming cosmetics.

The CCRT’s partnership model, founded in 2003, has shown its means to answer in a sustainable way tailor-made to the expanding desires of field. It offers a wide range of capabilities in the subject of superior-general performance calculations and processing, combining stability, innovation and adaptability in the use of methods. This model is centered on a lot of conversations and performing periods in between the partners in buy to share desires and comments.

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About Atos

Atos is a world wide leader in electronic transformation with a hundred and five,000 staff and yearly profits of more than € eleven billion. European selection 1 in cybersecurity, cloud and superior general performance computing, the Group supplies tailor-made stop-to-stop methods for all industries in 71 countries. A pioneer in decarbonization companies and products and solutions, Atos is committed to a safe and decarbonized electronic for its clients. Atos operates below the models Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), outlined on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The intent of Atos is to enable style the long term of the information and facts place. Its know-how and companies aid the development of understanding, education and learning and study in a multicultural technique and add to the development of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the planet, the Group allows its buyers and staff, and members of societies at large to dwell, get the job done and build sustainably, in a secure and safe information and facts place. www.atos.net

About the CEA

The CEA is a essential participant in study, development and innovation in four major parts: electrical power changeover, electronic changeover, technological innovation for the medication of the long term and protection and stability. With a workforce of 20,000 people today, centered in 9 web pages geared up with extremely large-scale study infrastructures, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large selection of academic and industrial partners, in France, Europe and worldwide.

For additional information and facts: www.cea.fr

By its Military Applications Division (CEA-DAM), the CEA is tasked with overseeing France’s protection and stability systems. It types, manufactures and makes certain the safety and reliability of France’s nuclear deterrent warheads. It types and helps make the nuclear steam offer systems that ability the French Navy’s vessels. The CEA also supplies specialized aid to the Authorities aimed at avoiding nuclear proliferation and terrorism, as perfectly as giving its know-how to suggest the French Protection Ministry on examining and taking care of the effects of traditional weapons systems and their vulnerability.

[one] The CEA’s Really Big Computing Center (TGCC) is an infrastructure operated by teams from the DAM Île-de-France centre and built to host supercomputers, with all the computing methods and companies adapted to superior-general performance electronic processing.

[2] one million billion functions per next.

[3] DataDirect Networks

Photograph caption: Topaze, the new supercomputer at the CCRT ©CEA