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Atos and Graphcore today announce that they have signed a partnership to accelerate performance and innovation in Artificial Intelligence AI by integrating Graphcores advanced IPU compute systems into Atos recently launched ThinkAI offering to bring AI high-performance solutions to customers worldwide.This partnership will mutually benefit both parties. Atos long-standing position as a European leader in high-performance computing HPC and trusted advisor provider and integrator of HPC solutions at scale will give Graphcore access to a multitude of new customers sectors and geographies. Graphcore in turn will work with Atos globally to expand its global reach by targeting large corporate enterprise in sectors including finance healthcare telecoms and consumer internet as well as national labs and universities focused on scientific research which are rapidly developing their AI capabilities.ThinkAI brings together Atos AI business consultancy expertise - with its experts at the AtosCenter of Excellence in Advanced Computing - with its digital security capabilities and its software such as Atos HPC Software Suites to enable organizations to accelerate time to AI operationalization and industrialization.Graphcore the UK-headquartered maker of the Intelligence Processing Unit IPU plays a significant role in Atos ThinkAI offering which is focused on the twin objectives of accelerating pure artificial intelligence applications and augmenting traditional HPC simulation with AI. Graphcores IPU-POD systems for scale-up datacentre computing will be an integral part of ThinkAI.Even before todays formal launch of the partnership the two companies welcomed their first major joint customer one of the largest cloud providers in South Korea which will be using Graphcore systems in large-scale AI cloud datacenters in a deal facilitated by Atos.ThinkAI represents a massive commitment to the future of artificial intelligence by one of the worlds most trusted technology companies. For Atos to have put Graphcore as a key part of its strategy says a great deal about the maturity of our hardware and software and the ability of our systems to deliver on customer needs said Fabrice Moizan GM and SVP Sales EMEAI and Asia Pacific at Graphcore.Agns Boudot Senior Vice President Head of HPC Quantum at Atos said With ThinkAI were making it possible for organizations from any industry to achieve breakthroughs with AI. Graphcores IPU hardware and Poplar software is opening up new opportunities for innovators to explore the potential of AI for their organizations complemented with our industry-tailored AI business consultancy digital security capabilities and software were excited to be orchestrating these cutting-edge technologies in our ThinkAI solution.
