HPC News Bytes: IndiaAI Mission, New Fabs around the World, Atos-Eviden

A happy mid-March day to you. Last week in the world of HPC-AI the emphasis was on the latter, including: the expanding IndiaAI Mission will include a 10,000-GPU supercomputer, TSMC’s biggest customers, countries court chip manufacturers for local fabs….

Eviden Caught up in Atos’ Financial, Acquisition Struggles

With a longstanding TOP500 supercomputing heritage, a leadership position in European supercomputing, a commitment to build Europe’s first exascale-class system and with major techno- geopolitical stakes on the line, the financial difficulties of Atos and, by extension, its Eviden HPC unit….

Eviden to Deliver Modular Data Center for Europe’s 1st Exascale System

This morning, Eviden made it official: it has been awarded a contract by Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany to build the modular data center to host the EuroHPC JUPITER supercomputer, Europe’s first exascale system. This is not surprising because….

Taming the Exascale Beast: Challenges and Solutions in Architecting JUPITER

In this sponsored article, Crispin Keable PhD., senior solution architect developing HPC, AI and quantum systems for Eviden (an Atos business), discusses how his philosophy is and always has been to help customers achieve their scientific, technical, and engineering goals by using the best technology now and tomorrow…..

Eviden Expands Partnership with CryptoNext Security

Paris – October 11, 2023 – Eviden, an Atos Group business, today announces its Trustway IP Protect IPSec network security solution will soon support post-quantum algorithms, and expands strategic partnership with CryptoNext Security, a post-quantum cryptography company. As quantum computers are a soon-to-become reality, Eviden anticipates its arrival along with its associated security risks by upgrading […]

Former Atos CEO Elie Girard Joins Quantum Company Alice & Bob as Executive Chairman

PARIS — July 11, 2023 — Fault toerant quantum computing company Alice & Bob today announced the appointment of Elie Girard as its new executive chairman. Girard will advise the company in its efforts to develop logical qubits based on Cat Qubits technology. Cat Qubits are superconducting qubits with built-in error correction that drastically lower […]

Eviden Announces 2 HPC and Quantum Pacts

Eviden, the advanced computing unit of Atos, announced two quantum computing partnerships this morning, with HPCNow!, a Barcelona-based HPC consulting firm, and with Alice & Bob, a quantum computing company in Paris. With Alice & Bob, Eviden will make Alice & Bob’s cat qubit technology accessible on Qaptiva, Eviden’s quantum application development platform. Eviden said […]

Eviden in $100M HPC Weather Systems Deal with India’s Earth Sciences Ministry

Paris – June 22, 2023 – Eviden, the Atos business for advanced computing, today announced it was awarded a $100M contract with NCMRWF, on behalf of the India Ministry of Earth Sciences, to build two AMD- and NVIDIA-powered supercomputers for weather modelling and climate research for IITM and NCMRWF. These systems, based on Eviden’s BullSequana […]

Eviden Announces Quantum Application Development Platform

Paris – May 11, 2023 – Eviden, an Atos business in digital, cloud, big data and security, today launched Qaptiva for quantum application development. Eviden said it is enabling a software and hardware partner ecosystem to use the Qaptiva application development platform for corporate customers to develop quantum applications, and run them in as-a-service or on premises […]

Vivian Blanchard Named VP Hardware R&D at SiPearl

Maisons-Laffitte (France), May 4, 2023 – SiPearl, the company building the high-performance low-power microprocessor for exascale supercomputers in Europe, has announced the appointment of Vivian Blanchard as vice president hardware research & development. Previously serving as head of Atos’ ASIC Research & Development Department, he joined SiPearl to support the growth of the hardware R&D […]