May 12 (SeeNews) - France's IT group Atos said that it has fully delivered and assembled Bulgaria's new European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC) supercomputer at Sofia Tech Park.
"This will be the most powerful supercomputer in Eastern Europe and will help to leverage Bulgaria’s high-tech ambitions," Atos said in a statement on Tuesday.
The machine, based on Atos’ BullSequana XH2000 architecture, will most probably become operational in July, Atos said in a statement on Tuesday.
The EuroHPC supercomputer is designed to serve the development of scientific, public and industrial applications in many fields, including bioinformatics, pharmacy, molecular dynamics and mechanics, quantum chemistry and biochemistry, artificial intelligence, personalized medicine, bioengineering, meteorology, and the fight against climate change, Atos explained.
"We already have the first requests for solving pragmatic tasks in chemistry, medicine, and biology. Of course, we are also looking forward to the future - we are talking with Atos to add their platform and experience in quantum computers," said Peter Statev, Sofia Tech Park supervisory board chairman.
Last year, the European Commission said that the EuroHPC signed an 11.5 million euro ($13.9 million) deal to acquire a new supercomputing system in Bulgaria, to be capable of more than 4.4 petaflops. Atos was later selected by the EuroHPC and the consortium “Petascale Supercomputer Bulgaria” (PetaSC-Bulgaria) whose leading partner is Sofia Tech Park to build the petascale supercomputer.
Atos is a global leader in cybersecurity, cloud and high-performance computing with 105,000 employees and annual revenue of over 11 billion euro.
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