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Atos will build the MareNostrum 5 for the Barcelona Supercomputing Center

atos is finally the company chosen for the construction of MareNostrum 5, a new supercomputer, of the pre-exascalar type, for the Joint Project for European High-Performance Computing (EuroHPC JU). will be in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, as confirmed by those responsible, and will have a peak performance of 314 Petaflops, that is, 314,000 million calculations per second. In addition, it will have more than 200 Petabytes of storage space, and 400 Petabytes of active file.

This supercomputer that Atos is going to start up will be used specifically to strengthen medical research in Europe through drug research and the development of vaccines. Also for the simulation of virus expansion and for Big Data and Artificial Intelligence process applications. In addition, it can also be used for the rest of the traditional applications for which high-performance computing systems are used. These include climate research, engineering, materials science, and Earth science.

The facilities that will house the MareNostrum 5 built by Atos at the Barcelona National Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) they are completely new, and have been designed to meet the specific needs of this supercomputer. This supercomputer will be built with the aim of having a high level of energy efficiency. It will exclusively use green energy, as well as heat reuse technologies. Although it is a pre-exascalar system, as we have mentioned, it will be among the most powerful computers in the world, and it will be in charge of facilitating the step towards exascalar functions, which are seen as the next goal of supercomputing.

In terms of budget, the construction of the MareNostrum 5 151.41 million have been allocated euros, which will provide the Euro HPC JU. This is a consortium format for three of the countries participating in the EuropHPC: Spain, Portugal and Turkey. On behalf of Spain, the group includes the Ministry of Science and Innovation, the Government of Catalonia and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). Since all funding comes from the EUroHPC JU, half of Mare Nostrum 5’s computing resources will go to member users, after regular expert-supervised meetings with all European users who are qualified to use it.

Anders Dam Jensen, EuroHPC Joint Project Managerhas stated that «the EuroHPC Joint Project continues to lead the way in European supercomputing. MareNostrum 5 will offer Europe’s scientists and industry access to state-of-the-art high-performance computing infrastructure and services. It will boost medical innovation, but also climate, engineering and Earth science research, while supporting our goal of promoting green and sustainable technologies.«.

Regarding Mateo Valero, Director of the BSC-CNYes, he pointed out that «the purchase of MareNostrum 5 will enable world-changing scientific advances, such as the creation of digital twins to help solve global problems, such as climate change, and the advancement of precision medicine. In addition, the BCN-CNS is committed to the development of European hardware for use by future generations and to help achieve technological sovereignty for the EU member states.«.

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