法国国有超级计算机制造商 Bull 在对其位于法国西部昂热的工厂进行 8000 万欧元的改造后，其产量翻了一番。公司高管告诉路透社，该工厂目前的月产量为 12 个超级计算机机架（此前为 6 个机架），如果需求持续增长，明年产量有望进一步提升至 24 个机架。Bull 于周五正式启用了新的生产设施。据该公司称，昂热是欧洲唯一能够大规模组装超级计算机的生产基地，整个工厂的改造工程将于 2028 年完成。
Bull, the French state-owned supercomputer maker, has doubled production at its factory in Angers, western France, after an €80 million rebuild. The plant now assembles 12 racks a month, up from six, executives told Reuters, which first reported the expansion on Thursday. Output could rise to 24 racks next year if demand continues to grow. Bull formally opened the new production building on Friday. According to the company, Angers is the only site in Europe that can assemble supercomputers at large scale, and the wider reconstruction of the site will be finished in 2028.
新增的生产空间使得 Bull 首次能够同时承接两个大型订单：
The extra space lets Bull build two large orders side by side for the first time.
第一个订单是“Alice Recoque”——这是一台为法国原子能委员会（CEA）定制的、拥有 94 个机架的百亿亿次计算（exascale）级超级计算机；这类计算机的运算速度至少可达每秒一千万亿次（1 quintillion 次计算）。
The first is Alice Recoque, a 94-rack exascale system for France’s atomic energy commission, the CEA. Exascale machines can perform at least one quintillion calculations per second.
第二个订单是“LUMI-AI”——这是一台价值 3.878 亿欧元的超级计算机，将交付给芬兰的 Kajaani 市政府，这也是 Bull 史上金额最大的合同。Bull 表示，这两台计算机都将在 2027 年交付。不过路透社指出，“Alice Recoque”将分阶段交付，整个项目的总成本为 5.54 亿欧元（由法国政府和欧盟共同承担）。
The second is LUMI-AI, a €387.8 million system for Kajaani, Finland, and the largest contract in Bull’s history. Both machines are due in 2027, Bull said. Reuters, however, reported that Alice Recoque will arrive in stages from the end of this year, at a cost of €554 million to France and the EU.
首席执行官埃马纽埃尔·勒鲁（Emmanuel Le Roux）告诉路透社，Bull 今年获得的订单数量超过了以往任何时期。他还表示，Bull 在欧盟超级计算机项目 EuroHPC 发起的 18 项招标中赢得了 15 项，击败了惠普企业（Hewlett Packard Enterprise）等竞争对手。
Chief executive Emmanuel Le Roux told Reuters that Bull has signed more orders this year than at any time before. He added that Bull has won 15 of the 18 tenders run by EuroHPC, the EU body that co-funds Europe’s supercomputers, beating rivals such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
Bull 还曾建造了欧洲首台百亿亿次计算级别的超级计算机“JUPITER”，该计算机目前运行在德国于利希（Jülich）的研究中心。据路透社报道，云服务提供商 OVHcloud 和意大利人工智能公司 Domyn 都正在使用这台计算机来训练前沿级别的人工智能模型。
Bull also built JUPITER, Europe’s first exascale supercomputer, which runs at the Jülich research centre in Germany. Cloud provider OVHcloud and Italian AI company Domyn are both trying to train frontier-class AI models on it, according to Reuters.
3 月 31 日，法国政府完成了对 Bull 公司的收购，成为其唯一的股东；此次收购的估值高达 4.04 亿欧元。
“法国和欧洲必须牢牢掌握自身的计算能力，”法国经济部长罗兰·莱斯库尔说。
The French state became Bull’s sole shareholder on 31 March, when it completed the purchase of the business from Atos.
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Reuters reported that the deal valued Bull at up to €404 million. “It is imperative that France and Europe retain control over their own computing capabilities,” said Roland Lescure, France’s economy minister. The Angers plant builds machines with Nvidia, AMD, or Intel processors, or with European parts, depending on the customer.
安格尔工厂根据客户需求，采用英伟达、AMD或英特尔处理器，或者使用欧洲零部件。管理人员告诉路透社，目前欧洲制造的零部件约占这些系统组件的70%，而五年前仅占20%至30%。
European-made components now make up about 70% of the systems, compared with 20% to 30% five years ago, executives told Reuters.
接下来，Bull计划将该基地用于生产人工智能服务器。根据今年6月与富士康达成的一项合作，富士康将在捷克制造英伟达Vera Rubin NVL72系统的部分组件，并在安格尔完成最终组装。Bull表示，公司将于2027年初公布更多制造合作伙伴。
Next, Bull plans to use the site for AI servers. Under a partnership agreed with Foxconn in June, Foxconn will manufacture parts of Nvidia’s Vera Rubin NVL72 systems in the Czech Republic, with final assembly in Angers. Bull said it will name further manufacturing partners in early 2027.