Atos supports Indian government in its National Supercomputing Mission

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PARIS, Nov. 23, 2018/PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/--

Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, today announces a major 3-year

contract with the C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing), an

organization within the MeitY (Ministry of Electronics & Information

Technology, India) to supply its BullSequana supercomputers. This contract is

part of the NSM (National Supercomputing Mission(https://www.nsmindia.in/)), a

7-year plan of INR 4500 crores (~650M$) led by the Government of India which

aims to create a network of over 70 high-performance supercomputing facilities

for various academic and research institutions across India.

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This project will see Atos deploy its BullSequana supercomputers, with a

cumulative computing power of more than 10 petaflops. These supercomputers,

including the recently announced BullSequana XH2000 will be installed in

various academic and research institutions, making Atos a leading

supercomputing provider in India for this segment.

"We are honoured to be given this opportunity by the Indian Authorities to be

part of the NSM initiative and to become the technology partner of C-DAC for

HPC-related platforms. We're proud to be supporting India as one of the major

markets with its strong growth expectations. The choice of the Indian

government is testament to our experience and expertise in high-performance

supercomputing and I am delighted that our BullSequana, with its unique Direct

Liquid Cooling platform, will be enabling Indian academic and research

institutions to accelerate their research," said Pierre Barnabe, Chief

Operating Officer, Big Data & Security at Atos.

"We would like to thank the Hon'ble Minister MEIT, Secretary MEIT and the

Director General of C-DAC Dr. Hemant Darbari for giving this opportunity to

participate in such a prestigious program. We are very excited and looking

forward to this unique technology partnership with C-DAC. Besides delivery of

the Make in India Supercomputers, the partnership will bring to bear

cooperation in many emerging areas, including exascale computing, artificial

intelligence and quantum computing." said Arvind Bajaj, Vice President and Head

Big Data & Security at Atos in India.

This new contract illustrates the strategic relationship and partnership

between the two countries and marks India's ambition to be a leader in HPC.

Delivery is expected to start early 2019.

About Atos

Atos is a global leader in digital transformation with 120,000 employees in 73

countries and annual revenue of EUR 13 billion. European number one in Cloud,

Cybersecurity and High-Performance Computing, the Group provides end-to-end

Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Big Data, Business Applications and Digital

Workplace solutions through its Digital Transformation Factory, as well as

transactional services through Worldline, the European leader in the payment

industry. With its cutting-edge technologies and industry knowledge, Atos

supports the digital transformation of its clients across all business sectors.

The Group is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic &

Paralympic Games and operates under the brands Atos, Atos Syntel, Unify and

Worldline. Atos is listed on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

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