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.