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By Mathieu Rosemain
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s Atos goals to double its international market share in supercomputing to about 16% by round 2026, one in all its government mentioned, stepping up European competitors in a subject dominated by america and China.
The know-how and IT consulting agency offered on Wednesday a brand new technology of supercomputer, dubbed BullSequana XH3000, capable of carry out as much as one billion operations per second.
This degree of calculation capability will assist with challenges starting from simulating the results of latest medication and nuclear fission to forecasting climate and local weather change, it mentioned.
“It is mainly like a chassis that can carry any engine, and hyperlink it to different chassis with a view to carry extra load,” mentioned Arnaud Bertrand, the pinnacle of technique and innovation at Atos’ cybersecurity and supercomputing unit BDS.
Bertrand mentioned Atos was aiming to double its international market share in supercomputing over the subsequent three to 4 years from about 8% presently. The group does not disclose its monetary targets for the exercise.
Atos’s supercomputer, designed and made within the metropolis of Angers in western France, delivers six instances extra computing energy than its earlier model, the corporate mentioned.
At the moment’s heavyweights in supercomputing are U.S. agency Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:) and China’s Lenovo Group (OTC:), Bertrand mentioned. Different rivals embrace China’s Sugon and Japan’s Fujitsu.
Atos is the one main European producer of so referred to as excessive efficiency computing merchandise (HPC), a know-how deemed strategic by France and the European Union, which co-finances EuroHPC, a three way partnership between European nations and personal organisations.
EuroHPC is one in all Atos’ prime three shoppers, together with France’s atomic vitality fee CEA and the federal government of India.
Key elements of Atos’ supercomputers nonetheless come from Asia and america, nonetheless. The group is aiming to relocate a part of the manufacturing in Europe, Bertrand mentioned.
“We won’t ask China and america for his or her authorization if tomorrow we need to know the influence of human exercise on local weather or if we need to develop the subsequent technology of medication,” he mentioned.
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