Atos, for a long time a key IT services provider in Europe, stepped onto the HPC stage in a big way in 2014 when it bought systems maker Bull’s hardware business in $840 million, instantly making it a major supercomputer vendor on the continent. …
The acquisitions last year of Nimbix, Visual BI, and Ideal GRP by Atos signaled a more aggressive push by the European HPC vendor into the cloud and tech services space and coincided with a plan to expand beyond its legacy business and into such new growth areas. …
There are not many companies left on Earth that can field an exascale-class supercomputer. …
For those who have followed supercomputing over several years, the Bull systems brand is familiar, especially in Europe. …
The BullSequana line of supercomputers from the Bull division of Atos offers some of the highest compute density available in the HPC realm. …
The European Union has never been willing to cede the exascale computing race to the United States, Japan, or China. …
The HPC industry has been waiting a long time for the ARM ecosystem to mature enough to yield real-world clusters, with hundreds or thousands of nodes and running a full software stack, as a credible alternative to clusters based on X86 processors. …
Like other makers of supercomputers, the Bull unit of French services and system maker Atos is embracing the new processing technologies coming out of Intel. …
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