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Eviden continues to win supercomputer contracts no topic the struggles of dad or mum company Atos, announcing a €60 million ($63 million) signing for a Finnish national supercomputer that will triple the performance of the country’s present facilities.
The Atos subsidiary has inked a deal with the IT Heart for Science (CSC), a company 70 p.c owned by the Finnish state and 30 p.c by higher training institutions, for a supercomputer called Roihu – which interprets to “blaze” or “flare.”
In step with Eviden, the unique hardware will supply three conditions the compute ability of CSC’s present methods, Mahti and Puhti, and would possibly well moreover vastly enhance AI performance. Roihu will be positioned in CSC’s datacenter in Kajaani, and is tipped to be gripping for researchers by the tip of 2025.
Talked about use circumstances for the unique equipment consist of prognosis of audio and video recordings, AI applications all the design through varied fields, and used simulation-essentially based workloads equivalent to fluid dynamics and local climate modeling.
As with other supercomputer initiatives the French IT products and services broad has constructed, Roihu will be essentially based on its BullSequana XH3000 architecture. It would comprise 486 nodes, each with twin 192-core AMD “Turin” Epyc processors, for a total of 186,624 compute cores.
It would also feature 528 Nvidia GH200 GPUs in 132 nodes, alongside with indubitably expert GPU nodes for visualization and nodes with extended reminiscence, essentially based on the CSC, all alongside side up to a theoretical peak compute energy of 49 petaFLOPS.
Finland is also dwelling to LUMI, formerly the quickest supercomputer in Europe and positioned eighth on this planet, essentially based on essentially the most most modern TOP500 checklist. This latter plot is overseen by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking of the European Union as a replace of the Finnish authorities.
“Finland has invested in its own national computing environment on a long-term basis. We need to be able to serve all researchers who need data management and computing resources,” acknowledged CSC Director Pekka Lehtovuori.
“Computational grand challenges that require very large computing resources will still be solved with the pan-European EuroHPC LUMI supercomputer. Roihu’s mission as a national supercomputer is to complement LUMI and to offer competitive resources to the majority of Finnish researchers.”
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Eviden’s dad or mum, Atos, has been on something of a curler coaster high-tail at some level of the final few years, discovering itself careworn with billions in debt and anxious revenues from a pair of of its change units. It has tried, and failed, to sell off ingredients of the corporate to somewhat heaps of suitors in tell to pay down a pair of of that debt.
The corporate in a roundabout design managed to right funding for a restructuring and rescue deal with a team of its monetary stakeholders in July. Nonetheless, the French government, which has been striving to right key company sources, alongside side its Superior Computing, Mission-Vital Systems, and Cybersecurity actions, would possibly well soundless pursue nationalizing Atos.
Earlier this month, it emerged that a French government committee changed into looking out for a correct modification to a 2025 finance bill that would possibly well nationalize the corporate, almost at the moment after the state got a “preferred share” in Atos’s supercomputing unit.
This hasn’t stopped Eviden from deciding on up the supercomputer contracts, as this most modern Finnish deal reveals. Europe’s first exascale plot, Jupiter, is being constructed by Eviden and ParTec on the Jülich Supercomputing Heart in Germany, and it delivered the EXA1 HE (Excessive Efficiency) plot to French technological evaluate org CEA earlier this yr.
Eviden is claimed to carry in annual revenues of spherical €5 billion ($5.2 billion). ®
