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 speed up the process of innovation and fundamental research. The new computer will be used by the research community in France in key areas such as climatology and sustainable development, space and aeronautical research, energy, and life and materials sciences.

The new Bull NovaScale supercomputer consists of a cluster of 1,068 8-core ‘generalist’ computing nodes (Intel® processors), delivering some 103 Teraflops of power, and 48 specialised 512-core GPU nodes, providing additional theoretical power of up to 192 Teraflops.

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