Paris (France) and Bristol (British isles) – July 22, 2021
Atos and Graphcore today announce that they have signed a partnership to speed up effectiveness and innovation in Synthetic Intelligence (AI) by integrating Graphcore’s superior IPU compute systems into Atos’ lately introduced ThinkAI featuring to convey AI superior-effectiveness options to clients around the globe.
This partnership will mutually advantage the two parties. Atos’ prolonged-standing posture as a European leader in superior-effectiveness computing (HPC) and trusted advisor, provider and integrator of HPC options at scale will give Graphcore accessibility to a multitude of new clients, sectors and geographies. Graphcore in flip will operate with Atos globally to expand its global achieve by targeting large company enterprise in sectors which include finance, health care, telecoms and purchaser internet as well as countrywide labs and universities targeted on scientific analysis, which are swiftly establishing their AI abilities.
ThinkAI delivers collectively Atos’ AI small business consultancy abilities – with its gurus at the AtosCenter of Excellence in Highly developed Computing – with its electronic protection abilities and its software program, these types of as Atos HPC Program Suites, to allow businesses to speed up time to AI operationalization and industrialization.
Graphcore, the British isles-headquartered maker of the Intelligence Processing Device (IPU), plays a sizeable job in Atos’ ThinkAI featuring, which is targeted on the twin goals of accelerating pure synthetic intelligence programs and augmenting standard HPC simulation with AI. Graphcore’s IPU-POD systems for scale-up datacentre computing will be an integral part of ThinkAI.
Even in advance of today’s formal start of the partnership, the two corporations welcomed their 1st main joint purchaser, one particular of the biggest cloud vendors in South Korea, which will be utilizing Graphcore systems in large-scale AI cloud datacenters, in a deal facilitated by Atos.
“ThinkAI represents a enormous dedication to the potential of synthetic intelligence by one particular of the world’s most trusted technologies corporations. For Atos to have put Graphcore as a important part of its system states a good deal about the maturity of our components and software program, and the potential of our systems to deliver on purchaser demands,” reported Fabrice Moizan, GM and SVP Income EMEAI and Asia Pacific at Graphcore.
Agnès Boudot, Senior Vice President, Head of HPC & Quantum at Atos reported: “With ThinkAI, we’re creating it probable for businesses from any marketplace to accomplish breakthroughs with AI. Graphcore’s IPU components and Poplar® software program is opening up new options for innovators to explore the prospective of AI for their businesses, complemented with our marketplace-personalized AI small business consultancy, electronic protection abilities and software program, we’re enthusiastic to be orchestrating these chopping-edge systems in our ThinkAI remedy.”
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About Atos
Atos is a global leader in electronic transformation with 105,000 employees and annual revenue of more than € 11 billion. European selection one particular in cybersecurity, cloud and superior effectiveness computing, the Team gives personalized finish-to-finish options for all industries in 71 nations. A pioneer in decarbonization solutions and products and solutions, Atos is dedicated to a protected and decarbonized electronic for its clientele. Atos operates less than the models Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), stated on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.
The reason of Atos is to enable structure the potential of the data space. Its abilities and solutions support the enhancement of understanding, instruction and analysis in a multicultural solution and lead to the enhancement of scientific and technological excellence. Across the earth, the Team enables its clients and employees, and customers of societies at large to are living, operate and produce sustainably, in a safe and sound and protected data space.
About Graphcore
Graphcore is the inventor of the Intelligence Processing Device (IPU), the world’s most sophisticated microprocessor, precisely created for the demands of existing and next-generation synthetic intelligence workloads.
Graphcore’s IPU-POD datacenter systems, for scale up and scale out AI compute, offer the potential to run large versions throughout multiple IPUs, or to share the compute useful resource in between different people and workloads.
Due to the fact its founding in 2016, Graphcore has elevated much more than $730 million in funding.
Traders consist of Sequoia Cash, Microsoft, Dell, Samsung, BMW iVentures, Robert Bosch Undertaking Cash, as well as major AI innovators which include Demis Hassabis (Deepmind), Pieter Abbeel (UC Berkeley), and Zoubin Ghahramani (Google Mind).
Much more data can be discovered at https://www.graphcore.ai
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Atos: Laura Fau | [email protected] | +33 six 73 64 04 18 | @laurajanefau
Graphcore: Iain Mackenzie | [email protected] | +447977 015577
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