
UK gov paid Atos £24 million to settle Met Office supercomputer lawsuit
French company said procurement process was flawed after missing out on £1 billion contract
French company said procurement process was flawed after missing out on £1 billion contract
Atos Services UK Ltd v Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy and The Meteorological Office, comes to an end
French firm still thinks it should have won billion-pound contract; UK gov still says it was in the right
And experiments with Project Silica glass storage
New HPC system will use Azure Supercomputing-as-a-Service capabilities combined with HPE-Cray on-premise
Dept for BEIS says Atos’ proposed system was not “architecturally equivalent” to existing Met Office supercomputer and had to be excluded
Atos says it was unfairly excluded from supercomputer tender due to undisclosed requirements around processors
Weather forecasting system may be hosted in northern Europe to utilize cleaner energy
Amid storms, agency looks to the future