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

London and Looking through, British isles Paris, France Bologna, Italy – October 5 2020

Atos, a worldwide leader in electronic transformation, and  the European Center for Medium-Assortment Weather conditions Forecasts (ECMWF), these days announce a new Center of Excellence in HPC, AI and Quantum computing for Weather conditions & Local weather. The Center will be based mostly at ECMWF’s headquarters in Looking through, British isles, where it will provide their workforce of international scientists with obtain to rising AI (Synthetic Intelligence) and Quantum Computing systems and expertise, and reward from ECMWF’s substantial-performance computing (HPC) means to be shortly located in Bologna, Italy. The aim is to help ECMWF experts in their work on medium and long-assortment temperature forecasting and prediction and worldwide local climate modelling.

Utilizing these newest developments in technological know-how, ECMWF scientists will be ready to strengthen the ability to forecast the prevalence and depth of extreme temperature gatherings and other new temperature phenomena induced by local climate alter. Geared up with Atos’ newest BullSequana supercomputer, the Center of Excellence will also be supported by Atos specialists and technological know-how companions who will collaborate right with ECMWF analysis experts in buy to develop new methods to help following-generation temperature forecasting, assistance increase local climate and temperature discovery and innovation, and assistance prepare ECMWF for long term HPC and knowledge managing architectures.

“Bringing jointly world-course specialists in computing, computational science and Earth method science is key to continuing to advance our medium- and long-assortment temperature forecasting. The Center builds on a former successful collaboration with Atos and will enjoy a significant purpose in serving to us to strengthen and reliably predict the prevalence and depth of extreme temperature gatherings and other gatherings involved with local climate alter considerably forward of time,” said Dr Florence Rabier, Director Standard at ECMWF. “Technological know-how will enjoy a key purpose in supporting our specialists in the industry and enabling companions in our 34 Member and Co-operating States across Europe to carry on to shield life and assets in their nations.”

Pierre Barnabé, Senior Executive Vice-President, Head of Large Knowledge & Cybersecurity at Atos said: “We are thrilled to build this Center of Excellence jointly with ECMWF, where scientists will be ready to discover the diverse usages of HPC and AI through proof of strategy generation, as properly as innovation workshops, classes and conferences. Superior-performance Computing assisted by artificial intelligence retains massive potential for the local climate and temperature. It also introduces new procedures and methods that are only just becoming available.”

As element of the new Center of Excellence, a single of the original assignments will be to develop Device discovering answers for purposes across the numerical temperature prediction workflow that are tailored in the direction of the demands of Earth method modelling. A second venture will look to develop a CPU-GPU-based mostly model of ECMWF’s Integrated Forecasting Program (IFS) and the wave product WAM, and to prepare the ECMWF solution-generation pipeline and knowledge-centric workflows for new systems.

As element of the Atos Center of Excellence (CoE) in Highly developed Computing, the Weather conditions & Local weather CoE is Atos’ second CoE committed to HPC, AI and quantum systems which is centered on a scientific domain. The 1st remaining introduced on 8 July, jointly with the Wellcome Genome Campus and which is centered on Lifetime Sciences.

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Technological Facts

The analysis will be driven by ECMWF’s new Atos BullSequana XH2000 supercomputer, a single of the most strong meteorological supercomputers in the world. The method is outfitted with BullSequana X2415 blades, employing NVIDIA’s following-generation graphics processing device architecture, the NVIDIA® A100 Tensor Core GPU, and is supported by Atos Codex AI Suite, the most extensive AI software program suite on the industry. This will provide superior GPU computing and AI ability to allow ECMWF scientists to speed-up processing periods on the most sophisticated knowledge, enabling them to acquire insights a lot quicker, utilizing the ability of deep discovering and analytics.

The Center of Excellence will also have obtain to Atos’ Quantum Studying Device (QLM), the most superior Quantum Computing Simulator available these days, to discover how quantum computing may possibly impression temperature and local climate prediction in the long term. The Center will also be supported by expert staff members from AMD, Mellanox, Nvidia and DDN, letting it to discover accelerated computing methods as properly as challenges relevant to storage and knowledge obtain.

About Atos

Atos is a worldwide leader in electronic transformation with a hundred and ten,000 staff in 73 nations and once-a-year profits of € twelve billion. European selection a single in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Superior-Efficiency Computing, the Team delivers end-to-end Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Large Knowledge, Organization Purposes and Electronic Office answers. In the British isles & Ireland Atos provides business technological know-how answers for some of the country’s largest public and non-public sector organisations The Team is the Around the globe Details Technological know-how Partner for the Olympic & Paralympic Video games and operates under the models Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), shown on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.

The goal of Atos is to assistance style the long term of the information space. Its expertise and solutions help the growth of understanding, instruction and analysis in a multicultural method and lead to the growth of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the world, the Team enables its buyers and staff, and users of societies at large to are living, work and develop sustainably, in a secure and secure information space.

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About ECMWF

Headquartered in Looking through in the British isles, and with its knowledge centre in Bologna, Italy, ECMWF is an independent intergovernmental organization supported by 34 Member and Co-operating States across Europe and retains the largest archive of numerical temperature prediction knowledge in the world. Its major mission is to provide its users with numerical temperature predictions masking medium to long ranges. Around the previous few a long time, ECMWF has also formulated a powerful partnership with the EU and is an entrusted entity for the implementation and operation of the Local weather Modify and Ambiance Checking Companies of the ground-breaking EU Copernicus Programme.

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