The University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA) has chosen Atos-owned Eviden to supply its ROMEO supercomputer.
ROMEO will replace the university’s current supercomputer, which has the same name.
The new system will be based on Eviden’s BullSequana XH3000 technology, offering a total capacity of 8 petaflops. Its accelerated partition will be powered by 232 Nvidia GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips, connected by Nvidia Quantum-2 InfiniBand.
It also contains a CPU partition which consists of 10 BullSequana x440 servers and 4 BullSequana X430 servers, for a total of 8,448 cores.
Under the terms of the agreement, Eviden's Expertise Center in Performance Programming (CEPP) has agreed to provide URCA with HPC and AI expertise for five years. The supercomputer will primarily be used by researchers for bioeconomics and environmental science projects.
"We are delighted that the researchers and partners of the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne will have access to such innovative equipment, which will not only meet their needs in terms of HPC, but also the growing demand for artificial intelligence in the Grand Est region, particularly in the fields of bioeconomics and the environment, simulation of the evolution of the universe, modeling of the fundamental structure of matter, and health,” said Christophe Clément, President of URCA.
He added: “We look forward to continuing our long-standing collaboration with Eviden and Nvidia for the benefit of our researchers, students, and businesses alike.”
In March 2024, Eviden was selected to upgrade the capacity of the Jean Zay supercomputer at the National Center for Scientific Research, supplying 1,456 Nvidia H100 GPUs to increase the peak computing power from 36.85 petaflops to 125.9 petaflops.
In April, Eviden was chosen to extend the compute capacity of the Santos Dumont supercomputer housed at the National Laboratory for Scientific Computing in Brazil.
