Companies/Bull
Les Clayes-sous-Bois, France · acquired
Bull
French national-champion HPC vendor, origin of the BullSequana line. Acquired by Atos in 2014, now Eviden.
Systems this company appears in
- Systems
- 38
- Aggregate Rmax
- 59.35 PFlop/s
- Aggregate power
- 23.41 MW
- First appearance
- 2006
- Most recent
- 2026-08-31
- Concentration
- 9%
Aggregate Rmax is the sum of the systems this company supplies any part of. It is not revenue and not attributable share: an integrator and a memory vendor in the same machine both count its full FLOPS here. Attribution weighted by role is Phase 4.
Role breakdown
| Role | Systems | Rmax in those systems |
|---|---|---|
| Integrator | 38 | 59.35 PFlop/s |
| Storage | 1 | 219.84 TFlop/s |
| Cooling | 3 | 3.67 PFlop/s |
Appearances
| System | Supplied as | Shipped under | Rmax | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roihu Finland · 2026-06 | Integrator | Bull | - | unranked |
| LISA (Leonardo) Italy · 2026-06 | Integrator | Bull | - | unranked |
| SELENA France · 2025 | Integrator | Bull | 5.42 PFlop/s | #260 November 2025 → |
| AMD Ouranos France · 2024 | Integrator | Bull | 2.99 PFlop/s | #9 June 2025 → |
| THX.A.B France · 2022-06 | Integrator | Bull | 3.50 PFlop/s | #5 June 2022 → |
| Berzelius Sweden · 2021 | Integrator | Bull | 5.25 PFlop/s | #82 June 2021 → |
| Spartan2 France · 2020-11 | Integrator | Bull | 2.57 PFlop/s | #4 November 2020 → |
| CRONOS France · 2020 | Integrator | Bull | 4.30 PFlop/s | #67 November 2020 → |
| Atlas (Petrobras) Brazil · 2020 | Integrator | Bull | 4.38 PFlop/s | #56 June 2020 → |
| Fênix Brazil · 2019 | Integrator | Bull | 3.16 PFlop/s | #82 June 2020 → |
| Ogbon Brazil · 2019 | Integrator | Bull | 1.60 PFlop/s | #347 November 2019 → |
| Puhti Finland · 2019 | Integrator | Bull | 1.71 PFlop/s | #280 June 2020 → |
| Gaïa (EDF) France · 2018 | Integrator | Bull | 1.98 PFlop/s | #97 November 2018 → |
| AWE Damson United Kingdom · 2017 | Integrator | Bull | 3.24 PFlop/s | #93 November 2020 → |
| Eole France · 2016 | Integrator | Bull | 942.83 TFlop/s | #129 November 2016 → |
| Finis Terrae II Spain · 2016 | Integrator | Bull | 213.00 TFlop/s | unranked |
| Cobalt (CCRT) France · 2016 | Integrator | Bull | 1.30 PFlop/s | #470 June 2020 → |
| DKRZ Mistral Germany · 2015-07 | Integrator | Bull | 3.01 PFlop/s | #73 June 2019 → |
| Taurus Germany · 2015 | Integrator | Bull | 1.03 PFlop/s | #66 June 2015 → |
| Swierk Computing Centre Poland · 2015 | Integrator, Cooling | Bull | 423.16 TFlop/s | #155 June 2015 → |
| BURA Croatia · 2015 | Integrator | Bull | 233.56 TFlop/s | #441 November 2015 → |
| Zenobe Belgium · 2014-07 | Integrator | Bull | 332.56 TFlop/s | #416 June 2016 → |
| Occigen France · 2014 | Integrator | Bull | 1.63 PFlop/s | #27 November 2014 → |
| Prolix France · 2014 | Integrator | Bull | 2.17 PFlop/s | unranked |
| Cartesius Netherlands · 2013-06 | Integrator, Cooling | Bull | 1.09 PFlop/s | #46 November 2014 → |
| Anselm Czechia · 2013 | Integrator | Bull | 73.00 TFlop/s | unranked |
| Beaufix France · 2013 | Integrator, Cooling | Bull | 2.16 PFlop/s | unranked |
| CCRT Airain France · 2012-10 | Integrator | Bull | 346.07 TFlop/s | #189 June 2015 → |
| Helios (IFERC) Japan · 2012 | Integrator | Bull | 1.24 PFlop/s | #12 June 2012 → |
| Curie France · 2012 | Integrator | Bull | 1.36 PFlop/s | #9 June 2012 → |
| RWTH Compute Cluster 2011 Germany · 2011 | Integrator, Storage | Bull | 219.84 TFlop/s | #32 June 2011 → |
| Tera-100 France · 2010-10 | Integrator | Bull | 1.05 PFlop/s | #6 November 2010 → |
| CHEOPS (Cologne) Germany · 2010 | Integrator | Bull | 85.90 TFlop/s | #90 November 2010 → |
| JUROPA Germany · 2009 | Integrator | Bull | 274.80 TFlop/s | #13 November 2009 → |
| Merlin (Cardiff) United Kingdom · 2008-06 | Integrator | Bull | 20.00 TFlop/s | #89 June 2008 → |
| Tera-10 France · 2006 | Integrator | Bull | 52.84 TFlop/s | #7 November 2006 → |
| Mimer AI Factory Sweden · | Integrator | Bull | - | unranked |
| LUMI-AI Finland · | Integrator | Bull | - | unranked |
Related news
- Bull Expands Supercomputer Manufacturing with €80M Angers Redevelopment · HPCwireAngers is the one European plant assembling Eviden's BullSequana systems, including the Alice Recoque and LUMI-AI builds already tracked here, so this €80M capacity doubling (due 2028) is a concrete signal on whether those deliveries stay on schedule. It also surfaces a new Foxconn partnership to build NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 AI servers in Europe, relevant to the EU domestic-substitution question raised elsewhere in this dataset.
- SiPearl Delivers 1st Rhea1 CPU Samples to Bull for JUPITER Supercomputer · HPCwireSiPearl shipped the first Rhea1 samples to Bull for integration onto the BullSequana XH3000 platform that forms JUPITER's CPU cluster module, the first delivery of a European-designed processor into a European-built exascale system and SiPearl's first revenue-bearing order. It's a concrete step on the domestic-substitution question this graph already flags for Rhea1: a European host CPU moving from lab benchmarking into an actual EuroHPC machine rather than staying a roadmap item.
- Bull Beats Out HPE For Next-Gen Lumi AI Supercomputer · The Next PlatformEuroHPC and CSC Finland picked Bull over incumbent integrator HPE to build the LUMI-AI upgrade partition, with delivery slated for the second half of 2027. Worth tracking on the graph because it's a rare case of an existing HPE/Slingshot machine losing its re-up bid to a European vendor running its own BXI interconnect, which fits EuroHPC's stated preference for buying European where it can.
- Bull awarded €31m contract with AEMET to deliver infrastructure for weather forecasting supercomputer · Data Center DynamicsA four-year, €31m contract for AEMET's Madrid-hosted forecasting supercomputer, awarded to Bull only months after the French state completed its buyout of Bull from Atos — a data point on Bull's post-acquisition order book alongside its Mimer and LUMI-AI wins earlier this year.
- French state completes its acquisition of Bull from Atos · Atos GroupThe state becomes sole owner of Bull's HPC, quantum and AI divisions for up to 404 million euros, nine months after the July 2025 purchase agreement, formalizing Bull as a sovereign supplier rather than a subsidiary of a financially troubled parent. Bull's BullSequana platform underpins JUPITER, so this is a change of ownership sitting directly upstream of an existing exascale system in this dataset, not just a balance sheet event.
Further reading
Operating a supercomputer
Acceptance testing, why "installed" and "in production" are six months apart, and the machine lifecycle.
Power and cooling
Why air ran out at 20 kW a rack, how warm-water cooling removes the chillers, and what PUE conceals.
Storage and I/O
Parallel file systems, why checkpointing dominates the write load, and the metadata failure mode nobody expects.