GENCI

GENCI : Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif is the joint coordination and funding organisation for French High Performance Computing in public research.

We cover in this section: - GENCI’s mission - the associated organisations
activities concerning computer centers - activities concerning the scientific users - international and european activities

This section's articles

Recruitment of the PRACE Director (PRACE)

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 (PRACE)

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: (PRACE)

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 (The PRACE Project)

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 Prototype the Greenest Supercomputer on Earth (The PRACE Project)

Sunday 22 November 2009

eQPACE, one of the advanced prototypes evaluated by PRACE (the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), ranked at number 1 on the new Green500 list published at the Supercomputing 09 conference in Portland, OR. The purpose of the Green500 list is to provide a ranking of the most (...) > continue

PRACE at SC09, November 14-20, Portland, Oregon 2009 (The PRACE Project)

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 (The PRACE Project)

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

BULL Joseph Fourier award (Users)

Wednesday 22 July 2009

Paris, July 1th 2009 During the Teratec 2009 conference, Didier Lamouche CEO of BULL and Catherine Riviere CEO of GENCI awarded for the first time the BULL Joseph Fourier Price to 3 researchers. This price aims to reward a researcher for its works in the field of high performance numerical (...) > continue

Access to PRACE Prototypes (The PRACE Project)

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

PRACE Winter School in Athens (The PRACE Project)

Tuesday 20 January 2009 by Stéphane Requena

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, organizes a Winter School on Petascale Computing from February 10–13, 2009 at the training Center of the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE Academy) in Athens, Greece. For more informations : (...) > continue