Scientific American
The U.S. Needs a National Strategic Computing Reserve
One year after supercomputers worked together to fight COVID, it’s time to broaden the partnership to prepare for other crises
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Last spring, as the world was coming to grips with the frightening scale and contagion of the COVID pandemic, scientists started to make rapid progress in understanding the disease. For many discoveries, progress was aided by world-class supercomputers and data systems, and research results advanced with unprecedented efficiency from understanding the structure of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to modeling its spread, from therapeutics to vaccines, from medical response to managing the virus’s impacts.
Atos supercomputer to help unlock secrets of the Universe Paris (France), London, (UK) 1 June 2021 - Atos today announces it has been awarded a contract by the University of Edinburgh
Atos supercomputer to help unlock secrets of the Universe Paris (France), London, (UK) 1 June 2021 – Atos today announces it has been awarded a contract by the University of Edinburgh to deliver its most efficient supercomputer, the BullSequana XH2000, the most energy-efficient supercomputing system on the market. This is the largest system dedicated to GPU computing deployed at a customer site in the UK. The new system will constitute the Extreme Scaling Service of the UK’s DiRAC HPC Facility. The state-of-the-art platform will allow scientists across the STFC theory community to drive forward world-leading research in particle physics, among other areas, using NVIDIA Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and AMD processors. It represents a major boost to DiRAC’s computing capacity, significantly increasing the power of the Extreme Scaling service. DiRAC is a distributed facility with high performance computing resources hosted by the Universities of Edinburgh, Cambrid