French supercomputer maker Bull doubles output to boost Europe's AI ambitions: Report
The expanded site will assemble 12 racks a month and could reach 24 next year as Bull wins more European supercomputer contracts.
- On Thursday, French supercomputer maker Bull reopened its expanded factory in Angers, France, doubling production capacity to 12 racks per month as Europe bolsters its AI computing capacity.
- The €80 million expansion was driven by strategic autonomy needs; France turned to Bull in the 1980s after the United States halted supercomputer shipments to the CEA nuclear agency.
- Chief Executive Emmanuel Le Roux reported record orders this year, winning 15 of 18 tenders from EuroHPC while assembling the 94-rack Alice Recoque supercomputer for France.
- The expansion enables simultaneous assembly of large orders previously impossible to build in parallel, while European-made components now account for 70% of machines, up from 20–30% five years ago.
- Production capacity could reach 24 racks next year, supporting the European Union's €7 billion supercomputing investment aimed at closing the compute gap with the United States and China.
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This inauguration is part of a larger project to modernize the site, which is supposed to end in 2028 and which the group described as the only one in Europe capable of assembling supercomputers on a large scale, these machines designed to achieve the highest performance with the latest technologies of the moment. In the room of more than 10,000 m2 unveiled on Friday, a hundred people in white coats assembled on large plates of about 30 kilos, c…
Nationalized in March, the former subsidiary of Atos doubled the size of its production plant of supercomputers of Angers to meet the rise of artificial intelligence.
In Angers, France, Europe's only supercomputer production facility is now doubling its capacity and looking for partners in Germany.
Bull Doubles Supercomputer Production as Europe Races to Close AI Compute Gap
Bull has doubled monthly production of supercomputer racks at its Angers plant to 12, with potential to reach 24 next year. The state-owned French firm, fresh from its acquisition from Atos, supports Europe's €7 billion supercomputing push and has won most EuroHPC contracts. This expansion enables simultaneous builds of major systems like Alice Recoque and record-breaking LUMI-AI.
The French manufacturer of Bull supercomputers, controlled by the French State, reopened its factory in Angers after an expansion of EUR 80 million which doubled its productive capacity, amidst the efforts of the European Union (EU) to reduce the computational lag in artificial intelligence vis-à-vis the United States and China. The European Union (EU) committed EUR 7 billion between 2021 and 2027 to structure a regional network of supercomputer…
EXCLUSIVE: French supercomputer maker Bull doubles output to boost Europe's AI ambitions
Bull, the state-owned French maker of Europe's fastest supercomputers, reopened an expanded factory on Thursday to double its production capacity, executives told Reuters, as Europe bolsters its AI computing capacity.
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