Aneo joins Amazon Web Services Partner Program  

June 22, 2018

We are very pleased to announce our partnership with AWS Amazon Web Services. By signing this agreement, Aneo and AWS will be joining forces to deliver innovative solutions to customers in the the High-Performance Computing [HPC]space.

Aneo has established a strong presence in the Financial Services industry working with the largest investment banks and insurance companies to develop and integrate complex business systems harnessing the power of large HPC clusters, on-premises or in the Cloud.

Since 2014, Aneo has been recruiting PhD researchers and senior HPC engineers to be able to extend its services to other industries. In parallel, Aneo has expanded its R&D team and built a seismic processing software leveraging the latest parallel computing techniques and signed several technology partnerships to be at the forefront of the HPC industry and better services its customers.

To this effect, Aneo has joined the AWS Partner program for privileged access to AWS resources and capitalise on years of informal collaboration (Aneo’s Information System is fully running on top of AWS).

Aneo will be on the AWS stand at ISC 2018 in Frankfurt. We will be showcasing our Seismic wave propagation software (SeWAS) on AWS (booth A-1351).

Salli Mustafa, PhD, Senior Consultant and Application Specialist states that “Seismic wave propagation from an earthquake through the ground has always presented numerical challenges because of its dimension, resolution and medium complexity with respect to the geoscientist’s knowledge and engineering requirements. The application dataflow is built on top of PaRSEC, a generic task-based runtime system, targeting distributed heterogeneous architectures. Considering the memory-bound nature of the stencil scheme, we designed the numerical kernels to maximize data reuse and thus increase their arithmetic intensity. Such a strategy allows more efficient exploitation of large SIMD units available in modern CPU cores.

Sethy Montan, PhD, Principal, HPC Cloud offering manager at ANEO comments that “SeWAS is, by design, able to take advantage of AWS scalability and for the purpose of the ISC demos, we are leveraging AWS CfnCluster to dynamically provision the resources required to run SeWAS in the most efficient way. SeWAS also utilises the benefits of AWS C5 instances, powered by Intel Xeon Platinum 8000-series processor running at 3.0 GHz base frequency, to extract the maximum performance from the compute infrastructure. SeWAS requires a high-performance network and fully benefits from AWS Elastic Network Adapter technology.” 

Aneo is a Paris based Consultancy company has over 230 employees and recorded a turnover of €23M in 2017.

From consulting to execution, Aneo capitalizes on its proven organizational and digital know-how to help companies find innovative solutions. Since 2002, Aneo’s focus is on innovation and more specifically how to leverage technologies for the benefit of Human progress.

Gilles Tourpe, Director of Advanced Computing Technologies at Aneo, says: "Aneo, an innovative Consultancy firm, has been working for several years to implement agile innovative solutions for its clients. We are delighted to work collaboratively with AWS who pioneered Cloud Computing a decade ago".