HPC 2015-16 | Integrators
management soſtware, he said, citing the shipment, this summer, of two DDN storage systems to a client in the Middle East. As part of this greater flexibility, during the ISC high-performance meeting in Frankfurt in July, Rosen was not just meeting potential customers but also complementary vendors wanting to work with Lenovo. When the IT services company Atos
acquired Bull last year, there were many questions about whether the high- performance computing side of the business would survive. As the new relationship develops, a rather surprising view of the advantages to Bull is beginning to emerge: that the relation of Bull to Atos is analogous to the relation of, say, Lenovo to its integrator partners. Indeed, in an interview with Scientific Computing World at the ISC high performance meeting in Frankfurt in July, Claude Derue, head of HPC marketing for Bull, put it in precisely these terms: ‘Atos is an integrator. Bull is the technology provider to a world-wide organisation, Atos, that is an integrator.’
Atos as integrator expands the market for Bull Bull has oſten been regarded as a very French company, exemplified perhaps by the contract with the Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) announced in July to develop a 25 Petaflop machine, the Tera1000, intended as a forerunner to Exaflop computers; it has a presence in European climate research and weather forecasting, with machines at the German DKRZ and in the Netherlands Meteorological Institute.
Lenovo sells direct for larger installations
According to Jean-Pierre Panziera, the company’s CTO for Extreme Computing, for historical reasons it has also had good ties with Brazil. In September, the firm announced that
it had delivered the first Petaflop system for open use by the country’s academic community, as part of a partnership with the Brazilian National Scientific Computing Laboratory (LNCC) and its Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI). It is named Santos Dumont, aſter the Brazilian national hero Alberto Santos- Dumont, who was born in 1873 and who became an aviation pioneer. He designed, built, and flew the first practical dirigible, demonstrating that routine, controlled flight
was possible. Te installation of Santos Dumont as the central node of the Brazilian National System of High Performance Computing (SINAPAD) means the country now has the biggest supercomputer in Latin America. But Panziera conceded that the French
image of the company was not without foundation; about 55 per cent of Bull’s business hitherto had been in France. For him, part of the significance of the acquisition by Atos is that it opens up markets for Bull’s technology that are far
“Smaller, industrial systems, running application soſtware from the ISVs is important to Bull’s business”
wider than could have been reached by Bull itself. And the expansion is not only geographical, it also expands the market for smaller systems as well: ‘What we have with Atos is a broader presence, in the northern European centres, in the central European states, and in Asia/Pacific – both high-end and SMEs.’ He stressed the importance to Bull’s
Blades being inserted into the tank of coolant as ClusterVision assembles the Vienna machine 30
business of smaller, industrial systems, running not open source or home-made application soſtware but programs from the independent soſtware vendors (ISVs). ‘You get big chunks such as the CEA contract, but you cannot live on this alone,’ he said. Te Atos connection brings with it some 175
Bjoern Olausson
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