Atos mobilizes technological expertise to fight Covid-19

Paris, 28 April 2020

Atos, a global chief in digital transformation, brings its technology management, capabilities and innovation resources to the global struggle versus Covid-19. Through numerous direct and companion-led initiatives across the world, Atos is engaged on many fronts, providing solutions and computing electric power to support include the spread of the virus, support the scientific community, speed up vaccine study and assure business continuity for crucial routines.

“An helpful response to COVID-19 calls for global motion and collaboration concerning community and personal actors. We are proud to be helping these operating intensively on the frontline in an exertion to counteract the pandemic by sharing our resources and solutions. We are now in uncharted territory, but Atos’ commitment and willingness to support citizens stay and perform sustainably and confidently in a altering digital landscape all through the pandemic and in the extensive time period, remain intact,” says Elie Girard, Atos CEO.

Helping nearby authorities include the spread of the virus

The escalating mobility of the population can make containment of diseases more challenging and the need to act promptly and efficiently is important at each individual degree.

Leveraging its community sector and healthcare experience, Atos has made EpiSYS, an Epidemic Management System (EMS) which offers healthcare specialists a precise overview of an epidemiological condition by storing and running all affected person data and data connected to the virus, together with tracking and tracing affected person incident reports, in actual-time. EpiSYS was adopted in Austria in early March to support regulate the spread of Covid-19 and just take strategic choices in the present crisis.

Mobilizing supercomputers and equipment finding out to pace up study

Atos’ high-general performance computer systems can rely thousands of times more rapidly than conventional computer systems. No matter whether they are made use of for simulation, to build predictive products, examine the progress of the illness or build new solutions, these strong devices are performing extremely demanding calculations that confirm to be important in today’s race versus the clock.

Atos’ supercomputers are at perform all around the globe. Two of the most strong supercomputers in France, Joliot-Curie, operated  at  the CEA’s  supercomputing  center  (TGCC),  and  Occigen,  operated  at  CPU’s supercomputing center (CINES), are providing urgent computing entry to massive computer resources to European study groups included in the struggle versus COVID-19.

In the Uk, Atos’ BullSequana supercomputer at the Hartree Centre is providing computing electric power to operate simulations of Covid-19 protein conduct. In addition, the JADE national AI supercomputing facility presented and managed by Atos is remaining made use of by Uk researchers from the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Southampton operating in the place of biomolecular simulations. This supercomputer, owned by Oxford College and hosted at the Hartree Centre, section of the Science and Technology Amenities Council (STFC), contributes in the direction of initiatives in the advancement of a vaccine versus SARS-COV2, anti-viral drugs and to far better comprehend the molecular architecture of the virus and how it capabilities.

Equally, Atos’ supercomputers in Brazil and the Czech Republic are also driving study all around Covid-19.

Furnishing business continuity with safe and sound and flexible digital environments

Atos’ technologies also enjoy a crucial function in preserving business continuity amid the pandemic. To solution the difficulties that companies are facing with house business office becoming the norm, Atos has created and adapted a thorough place of work services supplying and delivers close-to-close solutions, from remote management to wireless technology, whilst making sure the stability of any company atmosphere.

It is also important to assure federal government and community authorities are ready to proceed to source primary day-to-day demands for each individual citizen’s life. In the past weeks, Atos has been ready to ensure assistance continuity with QoS (Good quality of Support) for electric power utilities and drinking water materials, like Scottish H2o, in various nations around the world thanks to an unwavering commitment and skills in these industries.

Sharing our data science capabilities with the study community

Atos is having section in the ‘Covid–19 Dataset Challenge’, an international level of competition released by the White Dwelling, inquiring AI researchers to implement equipment finding out equipment and procedures to support give solution to key questions about the illness. Atos has a dedicated group of ten experts operating on the venture.