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R&D partnerships
Bull has an extensive experience in partnerships with research consortia and customers
Bull is playing an active role in many French and European research consortia to develop the intensive computing technologies of tomorrow. This is a major opportunity for Bull to exchange with advanced Extreme Computing users and understand the expectations of the HPC community. Bull is committed to projects such as:
- Energy efficient HPC solution projects: COOL IT, MONT-BLANC, SHARP, OpenGPU
- Cloud Computing projects for HPC : MAGELLAN, COMPATIBLE-ONE, EASI-CLOUDS
- Software stack and tools (Application parallelizing, debugging and optimizing, fault tolerance, energy efficiency optimization): H4H, NEWCASTLE, ENERGETIC
- Co-design projects for application sectors: H4H (Manufacturing, Gas & Petrol), CARE4ME (Health), ACDC (Multimedia), CSDL (Complex systems design), APAS-IPK (Life Sciences), VULCAIN (Industrial Safety), PULSATION (Climatology)
Bull is also keen to develop partnerships and knowledge transfer with customers, for the mutual benefit of both partners:
The University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Bull and Microsoft have signed a partnership agreement to enable a new hybrid (Windows / Linux) operating environment to be implemented across the entire bullx supercomputer acquired by the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne. The supercomputer, which has been installed at the University's Champagne-Ardenne Computing Center, is destined to meet the intensive computing needs of researchers and businesses in the Champagne-Ardenne region.
Bull and the CEA (French Atomic Agency) have co-designed Tera 100, the first European-made supercomputer to break the petaflops barrier.
" Tera 100's proven performance clearly demonstrates the quality of the partnership between the CEA-DAM's teams and those from Bull in technologies that are vital both to State sovereignty and corporate competitiveness," said Jean Gonnord, Director for Numerical Simulation & Computer Sciences at CEA/DAM. "This opens up the way for even more powerful systems, and for even greater co-operation in the design and development of the next generation of European computers; the Exa-scale systems that are expected to appear before 2020."
19/03/2012
Bull, CEA, F4E and JAEA inaugurate the Helios supercomputer in Rokkasho (Japan), dedicated to the Nuclear Fusion program
The supercomputer, delivering over 1.5 Petaflops, will provide the computer modeling and simulation capabilities needed for the 'Broader Approach' program, linked to the ITER initiative.
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15/02/2012
CURIE speeds up European research
Capable of up to two million billion operations a second (or 2 Petaflop/s) GENCI's CURIE supercomputer - designed by Bull - opens up unprecedented new possibilities for academic and industrial research in Europe
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November 2011
Special Edition of La Recherche - Supercomputers: at the frontiers of Extreme Computing
New horizons / Major Challenges / The future: exascale computing
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