Bull works closely with major software vendors to ensure that their product portfolios are available on the bullx server ranges. In-depth technical collaboration ensures that their applications and products deliver optimum performance on bullx platforms, and guarantees effective and comprehensive support.
In collaboration with its ISV partners, Bull can offer various middleware software to augment cluster productivity, as well as optimized vertical offerings for the following sectors:
A suite of interoperable debugging, optimization and profiling tools for parallel and high performance computing

Altair's PBS GridWorks delivers a workload management software platform essential in powering grid and on-demand computing environments
Altair's HyperWorks provides a robust enterprise simulation platform for rapid design exploration and decision-making

A wide range of simulation tools with co-simulation capability, for the automotive industry
HMPP (Hybrid Multicore Parallel Programming), an industry leading development tool suite for high performance applications, to help leverage the performance of multicore processors

Full-spectrum engineering simulation (CAE) solutions for fluid flow, heat transfer and stress
MSC Software is one of the 10 original software companies and the worldwide leader in multidiscipline simulation. As a trusted partner, MSC Software helps companies improve quality, save time and reduce costs associated with design and test of manufactured products. Academic institutions, researchers, and students employ MSC technology to expand individual knowledge as well as expand the horizon of simulation.
MSC Software’s engineering simulation technology is used by leading manufacturers for linear and nonlinear FEA, acoustics, CFD, multi-physics, optimization, fatigue and durability, multi-body dynamics, and control systems simulation. The company’s products accurately and reliably predict how products will behave in the real world to help engineers design more innovative products - quickly and cost effectively.

Platform's LSF is a powerful, comprehensive, policy-driven workload management solution for engineering and scientific distributed computing environments

The Portland Group® (a.k.a. PGI®) is a premier supplier of software compilers and tools for parallel computing. PGI compilers are optimized aggressively for both Intel and AMD 64-bit x86 CPUs with extensive support and optimization for NVIDIA GPU accelerators.
PGI Unified Binary™ technology ensures that applications built with PGI compilers execute correctly and efficiently on systems based on either Intel or AMD CPUs, and which can dynamically detect and use NVIDIA GPU accelerators when available.

The largest independent provider of multiplatform development tools and embedded components for last generation HPC applications. Specifically, Totalview is the world's leading provider of debugging and analysis solutions for complex codes.
SchedMD was founded in 2010 by the primary architects of the Slurm workload manager. SchedMD personnel are uniquely qualified to provide training, installation, configuration, custom development and support around Slurm.

The original provider of the enterprise Linux distribution and the most interoperable platform for mission-critical computing.
08/11/2012
Météo-France orders Bull's new-generation supercomputers
The systems will deliver a total peak performance in excess of 5 Petaflops by 2016.
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November 2012
La Recherche - Supercomputers take up the challenge
Special issue of the La Recherche magazine, dedicated to HPC in Europe and its applications.
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