NEWS
2024
In mid-June 2024, the European joint undertaking for high-performance computing, EuroHPC, and GENCI signed an agreement to host and operate the future European exascale supercomputer Alice Recoque at CEA.
The TGCC, hosting site of the Alice Recoque supercomputer, and its teams are preparing for the arrival of this system by 2026, which will replace the Joliot-Curie machine. This supercomputer, the second European machine to reach 1 exaflops (i.e. a billion billion calculations per second), will increase TGCC’s computing capacity available to the scientific community by a factor of 50.
The name “Alice Recoque” was chosen by the public authorities as a tribute to this pioneering French computer engineer. Died in 2021, she helped design the first minicomputers, before devoting herself to research into parallel architectures and artificial intelligence.
A quantum processing unit (QPU) with more than 100 qubits, acquired by GENCI (Grand équipement national de calcul intensif), as part of the EuroHPC HPCQS and French HQI projects, has been delivered to the CEA's Très Grand Centre de calcul by Pasqal,...
This is the first QPU designed and delivered to a third party by Pasqal, the world leader in neutral atom quantum computing. It will be connectedto GENCI’s Joliot-Curie supercomputer, then to EuroHPC’s Alice Recoque exacale supercomputer, allowing Europe to make significant progress in hybrid HPC-Quantum computing.
ISC 24, May 12-16 2024, Hambourg
Teratec 24, May 28-30 2024, Parc floral, Paris
CEA DIF mobilised for HPC, AI and quantum computing
CEA/DAM teams took part in “ISC High Performance 2024” in Hamburg (Germany), as well as in the Teratec forum in Paris, to present CEA DAM know-how and activities in High-Performance Computing and Quantum Computing, opportunities for partnerships with CEA's Very Large Computing Center (TGCC) as well as CCRT (Centre de Calcul Recherche et Technologie), and to meet the entire scientific and industrial community in these areas, where AI is becoming a major trend.