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Innovation: the key to a sustainable future
Editorial. Philippe Vannier, Bull’s CEO, stresses how new technologies are fundamentally important to economic renewal accompanied by sustainable growth. This month, two major achievements – the Petascale supercomputer, Helios, and the LiberTP innovative transaction processing monitor – have reaffirmed Bull’s position as a trusted partner in this future of innovation.
Bull, the CEA, F4E and the JAEA inaugurate the Helios supercomputer in Rokkasho (Japan), dedicated to the Nuclear Fusion program
Extreme Computing. On 19 March, the Helios supercomputer – designed and implemented by Bull for the IFERC (International Fusion Energy Research Center) at Rokkasho, in Japan – was officially inaugurated. Delivering peak power of 1.5 Petaflops, this machine will provide computer modeling and simulation capacity for the research program linked to ITER, aimed at exploring new energy sources.








