Partners

Bull SAS

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Parent Category: H4H

Category: Partners

Bull designs and develops servers and software for an open environment, integrating the most advanced technologies. It brings to its customers its expertise and know-how to help them in the transformation of their information systems and to optimize their IT infrastructure and applications.

Bull is particularly present in the public sector, banking, finance, telecommunication and industry sectors. Capitalizing on its wide experience, the Group has a thorough understanding of the business and specific processes of these sectors, thus enabling it to efficiently advise and to accompany its customers. Its distribution network spreads to over 100 countries worldwide.

Bull’s offer is supported by its innovation capacity and its worldwide network of high-tech industrial partners. Bull accounts for over 100,000 server’s installations: 70,000 Unix servers, 45,000 Intel-based servers and about 1,500 GCOS servers.

Bull has great expertise in the control of complex IT infrastructures, combining computing power and data management capability. Bull has, for many years, provided solutions offering high performance and availability, and has strong competencies in the choice of architectures, which make it possible to optimise data management.

Bull is setting its sights on European leadership in HPC. So, the participation of Bull in this project which gathers most important European Supercomputing Centres and HPC Research Labs is a key element to leverage this research and transform it in products that will help to speed up research in many other domains such as nuclear fusion, avionics, life-science, etc., to considerably increase the performance of high demanding applications such as seismic imaging for oil industry or video encoding, etc. and to greatly facilitate modelling and numerical simulation to design new products in a more efficient manner.