Atos boosts supercomputing power by 10 for Spanish State Meteorological Agency AEMET

Paris (France), Madrid (Spain), February 23, 2021

Atos announces that it has been chosen by the Spanish Point out Meteorological Company (AEMET) to supply and install its computing and storage technologies, via the tender “Contracting of Supply via leasing devoid of the choice to purchase a Supercomputing System for the AEMET”. Primarily based on the BullSequana supercomputing architecture from Atos, the new supercomputer will present almost 10 times much more computing potential than the recent one which was put in in the 2014.

This new supercomputer will strengthen and grow AEMET’s recent computing capabilities to boost investigation in different regions such as climate forecasting, weather transform, wave prediction and assistance its collaboration with intercontinental businesses. On top of that, it supports AEMET satisfy the new strategic, technological and services provision challenges, such as getting ready, supplying and disseminating meteorological info and forecasts, in its 2019-21 Motion System, thus consolidating its presence as one of the most important meteorological facilities in Europe.

“The availability of the new significant-effectiveness program will not only permit for bigger computing potential and a reduction in the time needed for the execution of numerical styles, but it will also allow us to enhance assets, automate processes and place in location detailed techniques, to advertise a much more sustainable architecture.” reported Raúl Hilara, Telematics Coordinator of the Point out Meteorological Company at AEMET.

“The fact that AEMET has renewed their self-confidence in our technological capabilities is testomony to our knowledge and we are happy that Atos will carry on to be their reference technologies company in supercomputing, accompanying them in the new challenges of climate forecasting and weather transform. This new results strengthens our motivation as a European leader in the meteorology sector. ” reported José Camacho, director of HPC & Quantum computing of Atos in Iberia.

This job will consist of the set up of two clusters geared up with much more than fifty,000 cores dependent on AMD EPYC processor technologies, with a potential 5.9 PB of gross storage, linked with a small latency interconnect community of 200 Gbits / sec.

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