List of Groupe Bull products explained

The following is a list of products from the French-owned computer hardware and software company Groupe Bull.

Computer hardware

• Bull Gamma series
  • Gamma 3 (1952)
  • Gamma 55^[1] (1967) (also known as GE 55)
  • Gamma 60^[2] (1960)
  • Gamma 30 (1964) (RCA 301)
  • Gamma M 40 (1965)
  • Gamma 10 (1966)
• CAB 500 (1961, sold under license from Société d'Electronique et d'Automatisme)
• Série 300 TI (1962)
• GE-600 series (1965)
• GE 400 (1967)
• GE 115 (1966)
• GE-265 (1968)
• CII Iris 50 (1968)
• CII Mitra 15 (1970)
• GE 58 (1970)
• CII Iris 80 (1971)
• CII Iris 60 (1972)
• Honeywell H200 (1970)
• HB 2000 (1973)
• Micral (1973)
• Mini6 (1978)
• CII HB 64/40 (1976)
• CII HB 66/60 (1976)
• CII HB 61 DPS (1978)
• Bull DS800 (2007)
• Bull DPS series
  • DPS 4 (1980)
  • DPS 7 and DPS 7000 (1981)
  • DPS 6 series (1983)
  • DPS 8 (1984)^[3]
  • DPS 6 Plus and DPS 8000 (1987) ^[4]
  • DPS 9000 (1999)
• Bull DPX series
  • Bull DPX 2 (1992)
  • Bull DPX 20^[5]
• SM 90 (1981)
• Correlative Syst. 1982
• SPS7 and SPS9
• Bull Escala (1994)
• Bull NovaScale (2004)
  • Novascale bullion (2010)
• Bull bullx (2009)
• Bull Estrella^[6]
• Bull Series 4000 Printing System (1988)^[7]

Mobile phones

In October 2013 Groupe Bull introduced the Hoox line of cellular phones with enhanced encryption and biometric authentication targeting security-conscious users.^[8]

Models:

• Hoox m1 mobile phone
• Hoox m2 smartphone ^[9]

Computers on the TOP500 list

As of June 2012 Bull has 16 machines on the TOP500 supercomputer list^[10]

Rank	Rmax Rpeak ^(Tflops)	Name	Computer Processor cores	Site Country, Year
9	1359 1667	Curie thin nodes	Bull bullx B510 blades 77184 (Sandy Bridge), Infiniband	Commissariat à l'énergie atomique  , 2012
12	1237 1524	Helios	Bull bullx B510 blades 70560 (Sandy Bridge), Infiniband	ITER  , 2012
17	1050 1254.55	Tera 100	Bull bullx super-node S6010/S6030 138368 (Beckton), Infiniband	Commissariat à l'énergie atomique  , 2010
45	360 442	Bull Benchmarks SuperComputer II	Bull bullx super-node S6010/S6030 20480 (Sandy Bridge), Infiniband	Groupe Bull  , 2012
63	274.80 308.28	JUROPA	Bull HPC-FF Supercomputer 26304 (Xeon), Infiniband	Jülich Research Centre  , 2009
78	219.8 270.5	RWTH Compute Cluster (RCC)	Bull bullx B500 blades 25448 (Westmere), Infiniband	RWTH  , 2011
97	177.5 203.9	Tera 100 hybrid nodes	Bull bullx B505 blades 9440 (Westmere), Infiniband	Commissariat à l'énergie atomique  , 2011
115	177.5 203.9	Airin	Bull bullx B510 blades 9440 (Sandy Bridge), Infiniband	Commissariat à l'énergie atomique  , 2012
144	124.6 145.15	Blackthorn	Bull bullx B500 cluster 12936 (Westmere)	Atomic Weapons Establishment  , 2010
168	108.5 130	Titane	Bull Novascale R422-E2 11520 (Xeon)	Commissariat à l'énergie atomique  , 2009
244	87.47 104.6	Layon	Bull bullx super-node S6010/S6030 11520 (Xeon)	Groupe Bull  , 2010
245	57.47 104.42	Curie fat nodes	Bull bullx super-node S6010 11520 (Beckton)	Commissariat à l'énergie atomique  , 2010
245	85.9 100.17	Cheops	Bull bullx Blade/Supernode 9376 (Xeon)	University of Cologne  , 2010

Notes and References

1. Web site: A second generation calculator: BULL GAMMA 55 - technikum29 . 2022-10-28 . www.technikum29.de.
2. Oct 1958. COMPUTERS, OVERSEAS: 1. Compagnie des Machines Bull, Ganmma 60, Paris, France. Digital Computer Newsletter. en. 10. 4. 7–10.
3. News: Brochure of DPS 8 (8/47) . Classic Computer Brochures. 19 July 2020 .
4. News: Honeywell Bull's New Computers . The New York Times . 10 June 1987 .
5. Web site: Bull DPX-20. 2021-09-30. silicium.org.
6. Web site: 珍種マシン. 2021-09-30. www.okqubit.net.
7. Web site: Bull Series 4000 Printing System.
8. News: Several European manufacturers spawn NSA-proof Android "cryptophones" . 2014-10-11.
9. Web site: Bull Hoox - une gamme pour les professionnels. bull.fr. Groupe Bull. 2014-10-11.
10. Web site: Top500.org . Top500.org . 2014-08-25.