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

London and Reading through, Uk Paris, France Bologna, Italy – October 5 2020

Atos, a international leader in electronic transformation, and  the European Centre for Medium-Array Temperature Forecasts (ECMWF), currently announce a new Centre of Excellence in HPC, AI and Quantum computing for Temperature & Weather. The Centre will be based at ECMWF’s headquarters in Reading through, Uk, in which it will provide their team of international scientists with obtain to rising AI (Synthetic Intelligence) and Quantum Computing systems and knowledge, and gain from ECMWF’s significant-general performance computing (HPC) assets to be before long situated in Bologna, Italy. The goal is to aid ECMWF experts in their perform on medium and long-selection weather conditions forecasting and prediction and international local climate modelling.

Making use of these hottest developments in technological innovation, ECMWF scientists will be in a position to improve the means to forecast the event and depth of intense weather conditions gatherings and other new weather conditions phenomena activated by local climate modify. Equipped with Atos’ hottest BullSequana supercomputer, the Centre of Excellence will also be supported by Atos specialists and technological innovation companions who will collaborate straight with ECMWF investigation experts in order to produce new procedures to aid upcoming-generation weather conditions forecasting, support raise local climate and weather conditions discovery and innovation, and support prepare ECMWF for foreseeable future HPC and facts handling architectures.

“Bringing jointly entire world-class specialists in computing, computational science and Earth program science is critical to continuing to advance our medium- and long-selection weather conditions forecasting. The Centre builds on a earlier prosperous collaboration with Atos and will participate in a sizeable function in assisting us to improve and reliably forecast the event and depth of intense weather conditions gatherings and other gatherings connected with local climate modify substantially in advance of time,” said Dr Florence Rabier, Director Standard at ECMWF. “Technological know-how will participate in a critical function in supporting our specialists in the discipline and enabling companions in our 34 Member and Co-operating States across Europe to carry on to defend daily life and house in their international locations.”

Pierre Barnabé, Senior Executive Vice-President, Head of Big Information & Cybersecurity at Atos said: “We are thrilled to set up this Centre of Excellence jointly with ECMWF, in which scientists will be in a position to explore the diverse usages of HPC and AI through proof of concept manufacturing, as well as innovation workshops, classes and conferences. Substantial-general performance Computing assisted by artificial intelligence retains substantial potential for the local climate and weather conditions. It also introduces new solutions and procedures that are only just turning into obtainable.”

As portion of the new Centre of Excellence, one of the first jobs will be to produce Device finding out solutions for applications across the numerical weather conditions prediction workflow that are custom made in direction of the wants of Earth program modelling. A next job will search to produce a CPU-GPU-based variation of ECMWF’s Integrated Forecasting Method (IFS) and the wave product WAM, and to prepare the ECMWF product or service-generation pipeline and facts-centric workflows for new systems.

As portion of the Atos Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Sophisticated Computing, the Temperature & Weather CoE is Atos’ next CoE committed to HPC, AI and quantum systems which is centered on a scientific domain. The to start with currently being released on eight July, jointly with the Wellcome Genome Campus and which is centered on Life Sciences.

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Specialized Particulars

The investigation will be run by ECMWF’s new Atos BullSequana XH2000 supercomputer, one of the most effective meteorological supercomputers in the entire world. The program is outfitted with BullSequana X2415 blades, making use of NVIDIA’s upcoming-generation graphics processing unit architecture, the NVIDIA® A100 Tensor Core GPU, and is supported by Atos Codex AI Suite, the most in depth AI program suite on the market place. This will provide sophisticated GPU computing and AI ability to allow ECMWF scientists to speed-up processing occasions on the most intricate facts, enabling them to acquire insights a lot quicker, working with the ability of deep finding out and analytics.

The Centre of Excellence will also have obtain to Atos’ Quantum Mastering Device (QLM), the most sophisticated Quantum Computing Simulator obtainable currently, to explore how quantum computing might effects weather conditions and local climate prediction in the foreseeable future. The Centre will also be supported by professional staff members from AMD, Mellanox, Nvidia and DDN, enabling it to explore accelerated computing procedures as well as issues similar to storage and facts obtain.

About Atos

Atos is a international leader in electronic transformation with a hundred and ten,000 staff in 73 international locations and annual profits of € twelve billion. European range one in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Substantial-Efficiency Computing, the Team provides end-to-end Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Big Information, Organization Purposes and Electronic Place of work solutions. In the Uk & Eire Atos delivers business technological innovation solutions for some of the country’s largest public and non-public sector organisations The Team is the All over the world Data Technological know-how Companion for the Olympic & Paralympic Game titles and operates under the manufacturers Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), shown on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The function of Atos is to support design the foreseeable future of the information and facts house. Its knowledge and providers aid the progress of knowledge, instruction and investigation in a multicultural approach and lead to the progress of scientific and technological excellence. Across the entire world, the Team allows its prospects and staff, and customers of societies at significant to stay, perform and produce sustainably, in a secure and protected information and facts house.

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About ECMWF

Headquartered in Reading through in the Uk, and with its facts centre in Bologna, Italy, ECMWF is an impartial intergovernmental group supported by 34 Member and Co-operating States across Europe and retains the largest archive of numerical weather conditions prediction facts in the entire world. Its key mission is to provide its users with numerical weather conditions predictions masking medium to long ranges. Above the previous number of decades, ECMWF has also designed a potent partnership with the EU and is an entrusted entity for the implementation and procedure of the Weather Alter and Environment Monitoring Companies of the ground-breaking EU Copernicus Programme.

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