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GENCI

Presentation of GENCI (English)
 

GENCI in a few words

GENCI, Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif, is a legal entity taking the form of a «société civile» under French law, owned for 49 % by the French State represented by the Ministry for Higher Education and Research, for 20 % by CEA, 20 % by CNRS, 10 % by the Universities and 1% by INRIA.

Created in january 2007, GENCI has the following mission:
- promote the use of modelling, simulation and high performance computing in fundamental and industrial research;
- promote the organisation of European high performance computing and participate to its actions;
- set in place and coordinating the major computer equipment for the French computer centers for civilian research, by providing for their financing and assuming their ownership;
- perform all research required for developping and optimising the utilisation of computing equipment
- open its facilities to all interested scientific communities, academic or industrial, national, European or international.

The most recent articles


The most recent articles


Kick-off meeting PRACE at the Research Centre Jülich

Press Release from the PRACE Project
Thursday 7 February 2008
Starting a European Research Infrastructure Over 60 representatives from 14 European Countries held the kick-off meeting of the PRACE project at the Research Centre Jülich on January 29 and 30, 2008. PRACE lays the foundations for a future European supercomputer infrastructure. At the end of (...) > continue


Access map

Thursday 10 January 2008
By subway: station Convention, line 12 then: take rue de la Convention, in the uphill direction take the fifth street on the left for entering on the rue de l’Abbé Groult once you reach the number 129, enter the yard (going through a porch), for GENCI follow the parking entrance lane, then (...) > continue


PRACE at Supercomputing 2007

Thursday 15 November 2007
The partners of PRACE announced that the PRACE "preparatory phase" project under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission will be launched soon. > continue


Terms of Service

Saturday 3 November 2007
Copyright All information on this site is (C) GENCI, unless otherwise stated. Trademarks All other trademarks appearing on this site are the property of their respective owners. > continue


The PRACE Initiative

Saturday 3 November 2007
Memorandum of Understanding signed for the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) > continue


Contacts

Thursday 1 November 2007
GENCI 129, rue de l’Abbé Groult 75015 PARIS E-mailcontact@genci.fr Access map on the web page > continue


Applying for computer time on the national centers

Thursday 1 November 2007
For 2009, GENCI, organised the peer review process to the allocation of computer time. > continue


The PRACE FP7 Project

Thursday 1 November 2007
The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe prepares the creation of a persistent pan-European HPC service, consisting several tier-0 centres providing European researchers with access to capability computers and forming the top level of the European HPC ecosystem. PRACE is a project (...) > continue

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