This computing power is necessary to increase the quality and speed of digital simulations in research and industry and to address the new socio-economic challenges of the 21st century. For example, Bull Sequana can be used to improve the accuracy of weather forecasts, build cleaner aircraft engines, and be used in genomics to develop personalized medicine.
Open to future technologies,
Bull Sequana is designed to integrate the most advanced technologies in terms of processors, interconnects, and data storage—enabling it to achieve exascale capabilities. Furthermore, by being designed to operate with leading industry hardware and software standards, Bull Sequana supercomputers offer customers a wide range of technologies to maximize their investment.
Limited Energy Consumption:
An exascale-class system relying on current technologies would consume around 400 megawatts, equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of 60,000 homes. Bull Sequana reduces energy consumption by a factor of 10 compared to the previous generation of supercomputers. Bull plans to offer exascale systems with a power consumption of 20 megawatts by 2020, thanks to its technologies and research and development centers.
Managing a deluge of data:
The exponentially increasing volume of data—its management, location, storage, and access—has a significant impact on performance. Bull offers a hardware and software architecture tailored to the most complex data management systems, utilizing distributed data management and access systems.
Accelerate Application Performance:
Exascale application performance requires massive parallelism. Bull Sequana integrates the Bull Exascale Interconnect (BXI) network, developed by Bull. Designed for exascale, BXI revolutionizes data exchange by freeing processors from all communication tasks. Furthermore, the Bull Sequana software environment enables precise management of large resources and delivers optimal production efficiency.
Robust Platform:
An exaflop-scale supercomputer includes tens of thousands of components and must offer high-quality resilience. Bull Sequana's architecture and construction were designed with this goal in mind, including redundancy of critical components and efficient software management tools.
