Sweden: Atos awarded contract to upgrade Sweden's Berzelius supercomputer

Atos's Eviden business unit has been awarded a four-year multi-million euro contract to boost the performance of the Berzelius supercomputer at Linkoping University for the second time. Eviden will integrate and deploy further Nvidia GPUs into the system, adding an extra 512 petaflops of FP8 AI performance to the Berzelius.

Dr. Cédric Bourrasset, head of HPC-AI and quantum computing, Eviden, Atos Group said: “We are honored by this new mark of trust from the Linkoping University, which relies once again on our teams to deliver a performance boost. Berzelius has been a key system in Europe to boost AI research since 2020 and this new upgrade will allow researchers to benefit from an expanded GPU architecture, helping to widen the possibilities of scientific breakthroughs.”

Prof. Anders Ynnerman, WASP program director and professor of scientific visualization, Linkoping University added: “In the fast-moving area of AI it is crucial for researchers to have access to state-of-the-art resources for machine learning integrated in the national infrastructure for supercomputing. I am very impressed by the speed at which this upgrade of Berzelius has materialized and am looking forward to research results it will enable.”