Every new generation of processors asks more of the room around it. More power in, more heat out, more pressure on the energy budget. That is the problem the BullSequana XH3500 is built for, and the reason Bull frames efficiency as the measure of progress rather than a compliance exercise.
The approach is 100% fanless direct liquid cooling with warm water, now in its fourth generation. No fans means no air handling to fight and no acoustic penalty. Warm water means far less energy spent chilling the coolant before it does any useful work. Put simply, every drop of energy has purpose.
Around that sits a platform designed to stretch. An all in one track design carries you from a modest footprint to exascale without redesigning the estate. Density is maximised so node performance rises while floor space does not. Standardised slots and Open Sequana keep the door open to third party innovation, which matters when accelerator roadmaps shift faster than procurement cycles.
Bull has spent decades working alongside scientific communities on physics, climate, energy and life itself, and its heritage runs from the first breakthroughs in computing through Europe's first high speed interconnect intellectual property to the world's first Quantum Learning Machine. Rooted in Europe and backed by a global network, it is a sovereignty argument as much as a performance one.
Watch the video for the design thinking behind the platform, how the cooling and density choices connect, and where a next generation high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) system fits in the AI Factory era. One platform, any workload.
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