Atos and Graphcore partner to deliver advanced AI HPC solutions worldwide
22 Luglio 2021 - 10:00AM
Atos and Graphcore partner to deliver advanced AI HPC solutions
worldwide
Paris (France) and Bristol (UK) - July
22, 2021 - Atos and Graphcore today announce that they
have signed a partnership to accelerate performance and innovation
in Artificial Intelligence (AI) by integrating Graphcore’s advanced
IPU compute systems into Atos’ recently launched ThinkAI offering
to bring AI high-performance solutions to customers worldwide.
This partnership will mutually benefit both
parties. Atos’ long-standing position as a European leader in
high-performance computing (HPC) and trusted advisor, provider and
integrator of HPC solutions at scale will give Graphcore access to
a multitude of new customers, sectors and geographies. Graphcore in
turn will work with Atos globally to expand its global reach by
targeting large corporate enterprise in sectors including finance,
healthcare, telecoms and consumer internet as well as national labs
and universities focused on scientific research, which are rapidly
developing their AI capabilities.
ThinkAI brings together Atos’ AI business
consultancy expertise - with its experts at the AtosCenter of
Excellence in Advanced Computing - with its digital security
capabilities and its software, such as Atos HPC Software Suites, to
enable organizations to accelerate time to AI operationalization
and industrialization.
Graphcore, the UK-headquartered maker of the
Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), plays a significant role in
Atos’ ThinkAI offering, which is focused on the twin objectives of
accelerating pure artificial intelligence applications and
augmenting traditional HPC simulation with AI. Graphcore’s IPU-POD
systems for scale-up datacentre computing will be an integral part
of ThinkAI.
Even before today’s formal launch of the
partnership, the two companies welcomed their first major joint
customer, one of the largest cloud providers in South Korea, which
will be using Graphcore systems in large-scale AI cloud
datacenters, in a deal facilitated by Atos.
“ThinkAI represents a massive commitment to the
future of artificial intelligence by one of the world’s most
trusted technology companies. For Atos to have put Graphcore as a
key part of its strategy says a great deal about the maturity of
our hardware and software, and the ability of our systems to
deliver on customer needs,” said Fabrice Moizan, GM and SVP
Sales EMEAI and Asia Pacific at Graphcore.
Agnès Boudot, Senior Vice President,
Head of HPC & Quantum at Atos said: “With ThinkAI,
we’re making it possible for organizations from any industry to
achieve breakthroughs with AI. Graphcore’s IPU hardware and Poplar®
software is opening up new opportunities for innovators to explore
the potential of AI for their organizations, complemented with our
industry-tailored AI business consultancy, digital security
capabilities and software, we’re excited to be orchestrating these
cutting-edge technologies in our ThinkAI solution.”
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About Atos
Atos is a global leader in digital
transformation with 105,000 employees and annual revenue of over €
11 billion. European number one in cybersecurity, cloud and high
performance computing, the Group provides tailored end-to-end
solutions for all industries in 71 countries. A pioneer in
decarbonization services and products, Atos is committed to a
secure and decarbonized digital for its clients. Atos operates
under the brands Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas
Europaea), listed on the CAC40 Paris stock index.
The purpose of Atos is to help design the future
of the information space. Its expertise and services support the
development of knowledge, education and research in a multicultural
approach and contribute to the development of scientific and
technological excellence. Across the world, the Group enables its
customers and employees, and members of societies at large to live,
work and develop sustainably, in a safe and secure information
space.
About Graphcore
Graphcore is the inventor of the
Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), the world’s most sophisticated
microprocessor, specifically designed for the needs of current and
next-generation artificial intelligence workloads.
Graphcore’s IPU-POD datacenter systems, for
scale up and scale out AI compute, offer the ability to run large
models across multiple IPUs, or to share the compute resource
between different users and workloads.
Since its founding in
2016, Graphcore has raised more than $730 million in
funding.
Investors include Sequoia Capital, Microsoft,
Dell, Samsung, BMW iVentures, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, as well
as leading AI innovators including Demis Hassabis (Deepmind),
Pieter Abbeel (UC Berkeley), and Zoubin Ghahramani (Google
Brain).
More information can be found
at https://www.graphcore.ai
Press contacts:
Atos: Laura Fau | laura.fau@atos.net | +33 6 73
64 04 18 | @laurajanefau
Graphcore: Iain Mackenzie | Iainm@graphcore.ai | +447977
015577
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