Tag Archives: HPC
Bull signs strategic HPC agreement with University of Liverpool
The University of Liverpool has formed a strategic alliance with Bull focused on scientific computing, including the implementation of a 40 Teraflops bullx supercomputer
HPC – a strategic priority
Supercomputers, a question of innovation and sovereignty.. In order to be competitive, nation States have to equip themselves with High-Performance Computing capacity. Now that Europe has affirmed its ambition in the domain, it can count on Bull to deliver.
Gene research and HPC
Taking example of life sciences, Bull’s experts, X. Vigouroux and G. Roeth, explore the varied computing needs of researchers and explain why it’s vital for them to deal directly with fellow scientists.
HPC services in secures Cloud mode to accelerate the adoption computer simulation by big players and SMEs
Initiative. Established with FSN, NumInnov is a pan-European provider of HPC services in secure Cloud mode. Its ecosystem, which already includes some 25 businesses and ISVs, will expand the ways that computer simulation is used in industry, energy, healthcare, culture and media, and homeland security.
Industry and Research Centres create a European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing
To boost Europe’s position in High-Performance Computing (HPC), the biggest manufacturers and research centers, including Bull, have set up the ETP4HPC technology platform.
Bull-Joseph Fourier Prize 2012 awards three scientific teams for their advances in research and innovation
Designed to promote the use of HPC, this year the annual prize awarded by Bull and GENCI has recognized work in astrophysics, lasers and nanotechnologies.
The Valencia Board of Health, Prince Felipe Center of Research and Bull sign an agreement to establish a Chair in Computational Genomics
Together, the Board of Health in the Spanish region of Valencia, the Prince Felipe Research Center (PFCI) and Bull have created a new Chair in Computational Genomics.
A moment of great pride – Bull Angers welcomes Catherine Rivière, CEO of GENCI and eminent researchers
Catherine Rivière, CEO of France’s HPC organization GENCI, has visited Bull’s factory at Angers, France. The Group recently installed the CURIE Petascale supercomputer for GENCI.
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.
From zero to 1.5 Petaflops in nine months
Eye-witness account. Philippe Lachamp, Director of the Helios project, looks back on the outstanding achievement of Bull’s teams in Rokkasho: implementing one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, starting with a blank canvas, in few months. Expertise, commitment and team spirit were at the heart of this extraordinary success story.
Wirth Research in pole position with Bull
Bull is supplying British race-car engineering consultancy Wirth, with the Extreme Computing hardware and services it needs to support its R&D.
The four facets of the digital revolution
Trends
Matthew Foxton, Executive VP Strategy and Marketing at Bull, takes an in-depth look at what Gartner believes to be the IT second era. And he identifies four key trends that will characterize 2012: the need for huge processing power, ‘as a service’ delivery, business computing and security requirements. Four areas where Bull is well placed to help.
Innovation: Bull launched new supercomputers at Supercomputing in Seattle: doubling computing power and spectacular energy efficiency
SuperComputer bullx : Spectacular energy efficient and ultra density
Bull launches its new mainframe family gcos 7 systems leveraging Extreme Computing technologies
GCOS 7 mainframes leveraging Extreme Computing technologies.
Barcelona Supercomputing Center triples its HPC capacity
Barcelona Supercomputing Center triples its HPC capacity
European industry and research centres join forces to create a European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing (HPC)
European industry and research centres join forces to create a European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing (HPC)
Cenaero doubles its intensive computing capacity with mobull
Cenaero doubles its HPC capacity with mobull
HPC awards for Bull at Supercomputing
The 2011 HPCwire Reader’s Choice Award confirms Bull as a world-class leader in the HPC market
New Bull supercomputer powers weather and climate research at Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
KNMI (Netherlands): a Bull supercomputer for its weather research
High-Performance Computing takes off at SONACA with Bull
Bernard Bury, SONACA’s IT Director
Belgian aerospace manufacturer SONACA is to use bullx® supercomputers from Bull for its sizing calculations on aeronautical and space structures. More than ever, this makes Bull the strategic IT partner for this hi-tech company, based at Gosselies in the town of Charleroi.








