Joliot-Curie: the most powerful supercomputer dedicated to research in France

Paris, June 29, 2020

Atos, a world wide chief in digital transformation, and GENCI, the French nationwide substantial-general performance computing corporation, and the CEA, reveal that Joliot-Curie supercomputer with its 22 petaflop/s peak computing energy is the most impressive supercomputer in France dedicated to academic and industrial open up investigate, and the third most impressive investigate pc in Europe, according to the TOP500 rating released on 22 June 2020. This supercomputer is derived from the co-style get the job done carried out by the CEA with Atos for more than twenty several years*, and which made it achievable to define latest energy computing architectures. The Joliot-Curie supercomputer ranks in 34th place in the TOP500 and is powered by Atos’ BullSequana XH2000 platform and the latest AMD Rome processors.

Virtually one yr on from its inauguration, Joliot-Curie is now operating at entire velocity for the past six months and has been extensively applied in over a dozen academic and industrial fields this kind of as weather, astrophysics, geophysics, substantial fidelity combustion, biology, molecular dynamics and materials homes, genome and neuroscience fields.

Operated at the CEA’s Incredibly Significant Computing Centre (TGCC), this incredible machine has verified its abilities to offer urgent computing accessibility to substantial scale HPC means in the battle towards COVID-19 a lot less than 2 months soon after being produced in manufacturing, many thanks also to sturdy assist provided by CEA experts who established up the vital ecosystem to function and put up-course of action successfully COVID-19 simulations.

As portion of the PRACE (Partnership for State-of-the-art Computing in Europe) COVID-19 Speedy Observe simply call and the nationwide urgent COVID-19 phone calls from GENCI, European experts have being making use of French supercomputer means to energy 36 COVID-19 assignments with eighteen of these managing on Joliot-Curie, furnishing scientific success applied to speed up and assist general public determination-making for the battle towards Covid-19 and velocity up the advancement of a remedy based on an ideal awareness of the virus.

Because January 2020, Joliot-Curie now offers an considerable computing energy with more than 440,000 substantial general performance x86 cores in virtually 5000 of HPC nodes. It is the first supercomputer put in throughout the world with AMD EPYC™ 7H12 sequence processors built-in in Atos’ latest BullSequana XH2000, which characteristics DLC (Immediate Liquid Cooling) for an optimized vitality-economical platform.

Stephane Requena, CTO of GENCI, claimed: “With its modular and well balanced architecture, Joliot-Curie is one of the most-applied units in the PRACE European HPC infrastructure we are genuinely very pleased to be able to provide this kind of computing energy to European scientists, in individual in the battle towards COVID-19”.

Helene Bringer, Director Significant Info & HPC at Atos in France, additional: “Every new Top500 rating underlines the speedy tempo of innovation in the industry of Higher Effectiveness Computing. With six supercomputers, including Joliot Curie, we are very pleased to be ranked among the the best 50 leaders in the globe many thanks to our extremely substantial-general performance BullSequana technology, and to contribute to industrial and scientific competitiveness in Europe.”

Christine Ménaché, Head of the CEA’s Incredibly Significant Computing Heart (TGCC) claimed: “All the TGCC teams have been mobilized to assist end users in their use of this new AMD-Rome partition in Joliot-Curie, specifically all those included in assignments towards COVID-19. The CEA is very pleased to be able to assist French and European investigate many thanks to its expertise produced in the definition of pc centre architectures, the implementation and use of supercomputers and their ecosystem, notably by means of Joliot-Curie“.

The AMD partition of Joliot-Curie was funded below the European undertaking PPI4HPC (H2020-754271), which aims to receive ground breaking computing and storage methods, by means of a joint procurement coordinated by GENCI, for main HPC centers CEA/GENCI, CINECA (Italy), JUELICH (Germany) and BSC (Spain).

On top of that, GENCI, CEA and Atos are very pleased to announce the acquisition of a new point out-of-the-art ARM A64FX Fujitsu partition below PPI4HPC to even more boost the abilities of the Joliot-Curie machine and assist setting up the route to Exascale** for European and French scientists.

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About Atos
Atos is a world wide chief in digital transformation with one hundred ten,000 personnel in seventy three nations and annual income of € twelve billion. European quantity one in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Higher-Effectiveness Computing, the Team gives stop-to-stop Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Significant Info, Business enterprise Programs and Digital Workplace methods. The Team is the Throughout the world Data Technological innovation Companion for the Olympic & Paralympic Online games and operates below the makes Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), mentioned on the CAC40 Paris stock index.
The goal of Atos is to support style the foreseeable future of the information and facts house. Its expertise and solutions assist the advancement of awareness, schooling and investigate in a multicultural strategy and contribute to the advancement of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the globe, the Team permits its prospects and personnel, and customers of societies at substantial to are living, get the job done and develop sustainably, in a safe and sound and protected information and facts house.

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About GENCI
GENCI is a civil culture below French law, forty nine{bcdc0d62f3e776dc94790ed5d1b431758068d4852e7f370e2bcf45b6c3b9404d} owned by the State represented by the Ministère de de l’Enseignement Supérieur de la Recherche et de l’Innovation (MESRI), twenty{bcdc0d62f3e776dc94790ed5d1b431758068d4852e7f370e2bcf45b6c3b9404d} by CEA, twenty{bcdc0d62f3e776dc94790ed5d1b431758068d4852e7f370e2bcf45b6c3b9404d} by CNRS, 10{bcdc0d62f3e776dc94790ed5d1b431758068d4852e7f370e2bcf45b6c3b9404d} by the Universities represented by the Conférence des Présidents d’Universités and 1{bcdc0d62f3e776dc94790ed5d1b431758068d4852e7f370e2bcf45b6c3b9404d} by Inria. Produced in 2007 by the French general public authorities, GENCI is aimed at positioning France among the the main nations inside Europe and on the worldwide phase in HPC and AI. In this context, GENCI has the missions to implement the French nationwide tactic by equipping with HPC and significant details storage means the three nationwide computing centres in get to assist scientific open up investigate, to contribute setting up an European built-in HPC ecosystem and to advertise AI, numerical simulation and HPC inside the academic and industrial investigate communities.
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About CEA
The CEA is a French general public investigate organisation serving sector, specialising in four major areas: vitality transition and very low-carbon energies, digital transformation, wellness and biotechnologies, defence and security. It carries out the missions entrusted to it by the French federal government. With its twenty,000 personnel and 9 investigate centres outfitted with pretty substantial infrastructures, the CEA relies on elementary investigate of excellence. It is included in nationwide, European and worldwide assignments with a vast array of academic and industrial associates. The CEA ranks as the main investigate organisation filing patents in France and Europe according to the Clarivate rating (2019).

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*CEA’s preliminary contract began with Bull, which was obtained by Atos in 2014 and is now thoroughly built-in into Atos.
**The exascale is the exaflopic scale, realizing that one exaflop corresponds to one billion billion functions per next.