Airbus gets HPC-as-a-service supercomputer from Bull

Aerospace giant rents new system over 5 years to help develop new aircraft

Airbus has inaugurated new supercomputing infrastructure fromBull to help the firm develop future aircraft, but is being coy about revealing howpowerful the overall system is.

The European aerospace giant had already taken delivery ofthe hardware, spread across two sites – at Toulouse in December last year and Hamburgin April this year – but today (Tuesday) marks the official inauguration of thesystem, with 3x the performance of its previous supercomputer.

That’s according to Bull, the high-performance compute biz the French state acquired from Atos a few months ago,as Airbus declined to put forward a spokesperson to answer our questions.

The new system is based on a modular design, where kit waspre-assembled inside containers before being shipped to the Airbus sites. It isbased on the firm’s BullSequana XH3000rack infrastructure with a mix of compute blades configured with AMD’s...

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