Close partnerships with major software vendors to ensure optimum performance on bullx platforms
Bull works closely with major software vendors to ensure that their product portfolios are available on the bullx server ranges. In-depth technical collaboration ensures that their applications and products deliver optimum performance on bullx platforms, and guarantees effective and comprehensive support.
In collaboration with its ISV partners, Bull can offer various middleware software to augment cluster productivity, as well as optimized vertical offerings for the following sectors:
A suite of interoperable debugging, optimization and profiling tools for parallel and high performance computing

Altair's PBS GridWorks delivers a workload management software platform essential in powering grid and on-demand computing environments
Altair's HyperWorks provides a robust enterprise simulation platform for rapid design exploration and decision-making

A wide range of simulation tools with co-simulation capability, for the automotive industry
HMPP (Hybrid Multicore Parallel Programming), an industry leading development tool suite for high performance applications, to help leverage the performance of multicore processors.

Full-spectrum engineering simulation (CAE) solutions for fluid flow, heat transfer and stress
Maker of Star-P – the parallel programming platform for MATLAB® and Python users and developers

Windows® HPC Server 2008 can efficiently scale to thousands of processing cores with out-of-the-box functionality to help improve productivity and reduce complexity of the HPC environment. Microsoft and Bull have joined forces to provide an affordable, scalable, and easy-to-implement HPC solution
MSC Software is one of the 10 original software companies and the worldwide leader in multidiscipline simulation. As a trusted partner, MSC Software helps companies improve quality, save time and reduce costs associated with design and test of manufactured products. Academic institutions, researchers, and students employ MSC technology to expand individual knowledge as well as expand the horizon of simulation.
MSC Software’s engineering simulation technology is used by leading manufacturers for linear and nonlinear FEA, acoustics, CFD, multi-physics, optimization, fatigue and durability, multi-body dynamics, and control systems simulation. The company’s products accurately and reliably predict how products will behave in the real world to help engineers design more innovative products - quickly and cost effectively.

Platform's LSF is a powerful, comprehensive, policy-driven workload management solution for engineering and scientific distributed computing environments

The Portland Group® (a.k.a. PGI®) is a premier supplier of software compilers and tools for parallel computing. PGI compilers are optimized aggressively for both Intel and AMD 64-bit x86 CPUs with extensive support and optimization for NVIDIA GPU accelerators.
PGI Unified Binary™ technology ensures that applications built with PGI compilers execute correctly and efficiently on systems based on either Intel or AMD CPUs, and which can dynamically detect and use NVIDIA GPU accelerators when available.
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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