EC News DeskOn August 25, Global CIO Forum in association with Atos and AMD successfully hosted a virtual session on Advances in High-Performance Computing- Tackling the world’s largest problems. The event was focused on how advances in high-performance computing can help to tackle the world’s biggest problems, whether it is weather forecasts, cleaner aircraft engines, genomics for personalised medicine, all these use cases require the computing power of supercomputers.
During the event, Atos addressed all the high-performance computing needs with a wide range of complementary services and solution which completes the entire high performance computing stack for its partners.
Advances in High Performance Computing- Tackling the world’s largest problems” virtual submitted was moderated by Arun Shankar, Senior Editor of GEC Media Group.
Highlights of Advances in High-Performance Computing event:
- High-performance computing
- HPC is fundamental for governments
- Vision in HPC
- Atos international presence
- Atos HPC, artificial intelligence, and quantum
Andy Grant, Global VP, Strategic HPC Projects, Atos
Andy Grant talked about their product and services, some recent case studies and their impacts, and why they feel it is critical HTC supercomputers are such fundamental technologies for governmental industries and other organisations.
He said, “Climate is warming and there are extreme weather events happing all the time. Being able to understand and predict ahead of time when this extreme weather event is going to happen is critical, whether its raising temperature, raising sea level and ice changes. Now, climate and weather have always been use cases of supercomputing and there is a need to examine these phenomena at much higher level of detail than is currently happening today.”
Michael Klemm, Principal Member of Technical Staff and Senior Field Application Engineer, AMD
Michael Klemm highlighted the AMD EPYC Processor, AMD Instinct Accelerators and AMD Software stack and said, “EPYC processors drive application performance via the architectural innovation that AMD did in the past 10 years. So, we greatly improved compute performance, we have an outstanding memory performance and very capable input-output systems attached to the epic processors, so that you can efficiently talk to the fabric of the cluster or input-output sub-system.”
The event was concluded with questions and answer session and key takeaways by Andy Grant, Michael Klemm, and Keyur Joshi, Head of Big Data, HPC and Cyber Products at Atos.
