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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

320 million compute hours awarded to 10 European research projects

Results of the last call

Monday 16 August 2010 by Laetitia

Ten research projects, five from Germany, two from the UK one each from Italy, the Netherlands and Portugal, have been awarded access to the PRACE infrastructure. In total 321.4 Million compute core hours were granted. Sixty-eight applications requesting a total of 1870 Million compute hours (...) > continue

Recruitment of the PRACE Director

Monday 28 June 2010 by Laetitia

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, has started a search process for the appointment of its first Director, who will be responsible for the development and delivery of PRACE services across Europe. PRACE is a new European legal entity, responsible for the creation and (...) > continue

PRACE calls for One Year Project Grants on Europe’s fastest

Friday 18 June 2010

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, enables researchers from across Europe to apply for time on the PRACE resources via a peer review process. This call - opened from June 15th to August 15th - marks the first regular call for the PRACE resources with the standard (...) > continue

PRACE Research Infrastructure inaugurated:

World-class Supercomputing Service for European Science

Friday 11 June 2010 by Laetitia

In a ceremony in Barcelona, on June 9th, EC’s «Information Society and Media» Deputy Director General Zoran Stancic and representatives of 19 nations established PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe. PRACE is creating a persistent pan-European High Performance Computing (...) > continue

PRACE DEISA Symposium 2010

Thursday 6 May 2010 by Laetitia

DEISA, the Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications, and PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, are inviting again to their joint annual science symposium as an important European HPC event: The DEISA PRACE Symposium 2010 which will take place from (...) > continue

PRACE at SC09, November 14-20, Portland, Oregon 2009

Wednesday 11 November 2009

The SC conference is respected as the premier global networking event for stakeholders throughout the HPC ecosystem. SC09’s exhibition hall will be second to none - featuring exhibits from many international participants representing industry, academia and government research organizations. (...) > continue

The 2nd PRACE industrial seminar in Toulouse on Sept 7-8

Saturday 10 October 2009

The second PRACE industry seminar “Europe goes HPC” was held in Toulouse on 7–8 September. It attracted more than 100 participants from 21 countries with executive attendees representing 57 companies from a wide variety of industry fields, HPC (High Performance Computing) vendors, ISV (Independent (...) > continue

Access to PRACE Prototypes

Tuesday 7 April 2009

For more details, see also http://www.prace-project.eu/prototype-access One of the PRACE project tasks is prototype testing for supporting decisions for the installation of the future HPC Petascale systems in Europe. In this context some pre-production prototypes have been installed at host (...) > continue

GENCI’s new 147 TF SGI / Intel processor based supercomputer boost CERFACS researchers study on large scale LES CFD simulations

Thursday 20 November 2008

GENCI (Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif), the French national high-performance computing (HPC) agency, is expanding France’s computing and storage capabilities with solutions from SGI. The new supercomputer called Jade has been installed during this summer at CINES, France’s National (...) > continue

GENCI and the CEA order a Bull Supercomputer to be installed at CCRT

Tuesday 22 April 2008

Paris, 22 April 2008 – GENCI (Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif) – the French national High-Performance Computing organization – together with the CEA (Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique) – the French Atomic Energy Authority – have placed an order for a Bull NovaScale® supercomputer, to (...) > continue