Bull & AMD

High-performance, energy-efficient computing at every scale

Bull and AMD deliver high-performance, energy-efficient AI, HPC, and enterprise platforms, combining scalable compute from mid-range to exascale, advanced software optimisation, and per-core efficiency to accelerate innovation, reduce costs, and maximise impact across every workload.

Partnership benefits

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AI performance at every scale

Bull and AMD: breakthrough performance for AI and HPC workloads, enabling organisations to scale from mid-range deployments to exascale supercomputing.

  • Exascale leadership:
    France’s first exascale supercomputer and AI factory, Alice Recoque, will be powered by BullSequana XH3500 and AMD Instinct™ accelerators
  • Advanced AI software integration:
    AMD’s acquisition of Silo AI, Europe’s largest private AI lab, brings optimised software and world-class AI model development capabilities to the platform
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Energy efficiency & sustainability

Bull and AMD: exceptional performance-per-watt, helping organisations meet sustainability targets without compromising compute power.

  • Exascale efficiency:
    Alice Recoque will combine more powerful AMD accelerators with Bull’s best-in-class advanced direct liquid cooling, demonstrating sustainable performance even at exascale
  • Enterprise efficiency:
    BullSequana SA servers are engineered to reduce energy consumption while maintaining high performance across enterprise and AI workloads
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Efficiency for enterprise workloads

Bull and AMD: optimise enterprise data centres to deliver higher performance, lower costs, and reduced footprint, helping organisations scale with agility and sustainability.

  • High performance per core:
    AMD EPYC™ processors in BullSequana SA servers reduce licensing costs and consolidate infrastructure
  • Broad compatibility:
    supports major operating systems, virtualisation platforms, VMs, databases, and containerised workloads
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Computing excellence & optimisation

Bull and AMD: push computing performance to the limits through hardware-software co-engineering.

  • CEPP:
    Bull’s Centre for Excellence in Performance Programming optimises code and hardware on a use-case or vertical basis
  • Application focus:
    particularly effective in weather forecasting, scientific simulations, and AI model tuning, delivering measurable performance improvements

Spotlight on Bull solutions, powered by AMD

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BullSequana XH3500, powered by AMD Instinct™ GPUs and EPYC™ CPUs

The BullSequana XH3500 is Bull’s flagship exascale-ready platform, engineered for the most demanding AI and high-performance computing workloads. Powered by AMD Instinct™ accelerators and advanced EPYC™ processors, it delivers extreme scalability, performance-per-watt, and architectural flexibility. Designed with Bull’s best-in-class direct liquid cooling, it enables sustainable performance at national and scientific scale.

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BullSequana AI 642-H03, powered by AMD Instinct™ GPUs and EPYC™ CPUs

The BullSequana AI 642-H03 is a powerful mid-range AI platform designed to bring advanced AI capabilities into mainstream enterprise and research environments. Leveraging AMD accelerators, it enables efficient AI model training and inference without the need for exascale infrastructure. Compact, scalable, and cost-effective, it accelerates AI adoption across a broad range of use cases.

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BullSequana SA, powered by AMD EPYC™ processors

The BullSequana SA servers provide high-performance, energy-efficient compute for enterprise data centres. Powered by AMD EPYC™ CPUs, they deliver exceptional per-core performance to reduce software licensing costs, consolidate infrastructure, and optimise virtualised environments. Ideal for databases, VMs, containers, and business-critical workloads, they combine reliability with cost efficiency.

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Centre for Excellence in Performance Programming (CEPP) with AMD

Bull’s CEPP works closely with AMD to optimise AI and HPC applications on AMD EPYC™ CPUs and AMD Instinct™ GPUs.Through consulting and collaboration with leading institutions, CEPP enhances simulations, accelerates hardware adoption, and reduces time-to-result. Together, Bull and AMD ensure workloads are tuned to maximise performance, scalability and energy efficiency across demanding environments.

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Why Bull & AMD?

Combines Bull’s AI and HPC infrastructure expertise with AMD’s high-performance GPU, CPU, and software capabilities, delivering scalable, energy-efficient computing from enterprise to exascale.

AI and machine learning, scientific research, weather and climate modelling, finance, and enterprise IT workloads.

Bull offers a comprehensive portfolio of AI, HPC and enterprise systems powered by AMD EPYC™ CPUs and AMD Instinct™ GPUs, spanning from mid-range AI servers to exascale supercomputers:

Exascale & HPC Systems

  • BullSequana XH3000 modular supercomputing platform designed for large-scale HPC and AI workloads

  • BullSequana XH3500 next-generation exascale-class system delivering extreme performance and energy efficiency for national AI factories and advanced scientific research

  • BullSequana X400 mid-range supercomputer platform optimised for research labs, industry HPC and AI acceleration

AI Platforms (Mid-Range to Large-Scale AI)

  • BullSequana AI 600 series, including AI 600 and AI 600H for compact, energy-efficient AI deployments
  • BullSequana AI 642 series, including AI 642-H01, AI 642-H02 and AI 642-H03, delivering scalable mid-range AI performance for enterprise and research environments

Enterprise Platforms

  • BullSequana SA enterprise servers powered by AMD EPYC™ CPUs, supporting virtualised, cloud and business-critical workloads with high per-core efficiency

Advanced AMD accelerators combined with Bull’s direct liquid cooling and performance-per-watt optimisation reduce energy consumption across all workloads.

Alice Recoque, France’s first exascale supercomputer and AI factory, showcases the combined strength of BullSequana XH3500 and AMD Instinct™ accelerators. It will deliver sustained exaflop-class performance with advanced software optimisation and best-in-class direct liquid cooling, demonstrating how Bull and AMD can achieve scalable, energy-efficient AI at national and scientific scale.

Yes. BullSequana SA servers with AMD EPYC deliver high per-core performance, reduce licensing costs, and support VMs, databases, and containerised applications.

Through CEPP One+, Bull and AMD co-engineer code and hardware for specific use cases, improving AI model training, deployment, and large-scale simulations.

The partnership provides scalable performance, sustainability, cost efficiency, and innovation backed by leading technology and joint expertise.

Ready to accelerate your computing journey?

Discover how Bull and AMD can help you design, deploy, and optimise high-performance, energy-efficient AI, HPC, and enterprise environments. Speak to our experts today to explore scalable computing solutions built for real-world impact.

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