Atos establishes Life Sciences Centre of Excellence to support researchers worldwide
July 08 2020 - 3:00AM
Atos establishes Life Sciences Centre of Excellence to support
researchers worldwide
London, UK; Paris, France - July 8 2020 – Atos, a global
leader in digital transformation, in agreement with the
Wellcome Genome Campus, in Cambridgeshire, UK, today announces its
global HPC, AI & Quantum Life Sciences Centre of
Excellence in order to provide organisations on Campus, and
global genome and bio-data institutes worldwide, access to emerging
HPC, AI & Quantum technologies.
The Atos Life Sciences Centre of
Excellence will complement the existing Campus compute
facilities with access to leading-edge technologies, such as
Quantum, High Performance Computing and AI, supported by Atos’
products, services and expertise in these sectors. Atos experts
will collaborate directly with genome and biological data research
scientists to help boost Life Sciences discovery and
innovation.
“I am delighted that Atos is joining our Campus
community, delivering greater insight into biodata at superior
speeds and efficacy will lead to innovative new methodologies and
products, as well as reducing the research-to-product development
journey creating a significant positive impact for the various
areas of life sciences”, said Dr Julia Wilson, Associate
Director, Wellcome Genome Campus.
“With significant development plans in place Atos will quickly
become a valuable partner within our Campus community. Now is the
time to power our research through the applied use of innovative
technology that could greatly advance biodata research. This will
lead to greater opportunities to translate research into tangible
societal benefits”, added Dr Jo Mills, Entrepreneurship and
Innovation Centre Manager, Wellcome Genome Campus.
In this Centre, researchers and technologists
worldwide will explore the different usages of technologies such as
Quantum, High Performance Computing and AI through a broad range of
activities such as proof of concept production, innovation
workshops, courses and conferences.
Atos Quantum Learning Machine, the world's
highest-performing commercially available quantum simulator, is
already assisting the research analysis capability of organizations
including Bayer in Germany, the Centre of
Computation Research and Technology (CCRT) at the CEA
in France, The Hartree Centre in UK and Oak Ridge National
Laboratory in the US.
Researchers will also be able to benefit from
Atos’ powerful BullSequana X supercomputers, which deliver
high-performance computing power to support researchers achieve
results faster. They are being used today across the globe to
support the current fight against Covid-19.
Pierre Barnabé, Senior Executive Vice-President,
Head of Big Data & Cybersecurity at Atos, said:
“We are delighted to establish the Centre, as the potential for
collaborative opportunity with Life Sciences institutes globally is
enormous. Quantum, High Performance Computing as well as edge
computing assisted by artificial intelligence hold exciting,
transformative potential for the life sciences sector, and we are
looking forward to applying these in real world scenarios by
combining research expertise with our technological expertise to
unlock opportunity.”
The Centre is already operating remotely and is
providing support to researchers worldwide studying many different
aspects of Covid-19 such as characterizing the structure of
SARS-CoV-2 to better understand its mechanisms of infection or
modelling the spread of the disease by using mathematical
methods.
Additionally, two demos are being developed
which unlock the value of HPC and AI to model cardiovascular
anomalies and to accelerate the interpretation of medical
procedures. These will be showcased as soon as the Centre opens its
doors.
###About Atos
Atos is a global leader in digital
transformation with 110,000 employees in 73 countries and annual
revenue of € 12 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. In the UK &
Ireland Atos delivers business technology solutions for some of the
country’s largest public and private sector organisations The Group
is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic
& Paralympic Games and operates under the brands Atos,
Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), listed on
the CAC40 Paris stock index.
The purpose of Atos is to help design the future
of the information space. Its expertise and services support the
development of knowledge, education and research in a multicultural
approach and contribute to the development of scientific and
technological excellence. Across the world, the Group enables its
customers and employees, and members of societies at large to live,
work and develop sustainably, in a safe and secure information
space.
Press contact:
Global : Laura Fau | laura.fau@atos.net |
+33 6 73 64 04 18 | @laurajanefau
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