Each year since 2010, GENCI is publishing an annual report presenting the key events of the past year and some of the main results of the year achieved by researchers or industrials with direct positive effects in the scientific, economic and social fields.

The investment of the French scientific community on ARM technology is more and more intense for the past 18 months with 2019 being a key year in the pursuit of a work started more than 10 years ago with the Mont Blanc project.

Paris, April 20, 2020 – Two of the most powerful supercomputers in France, Joliot-Curie, operated at the CEA’s supercomputing center (TGCC), and Occigen, operated at CPU’s supercomputing center (CINES), are providing urgent computing access to large computer resources to European research teams involved in the fight against COVID-19. The aim is to perform epidemiological studies of COVID-19 virus...

Sorbonne Université in Paris allies with several computational scientists in France and across the globe to study the molecular structure of #COVID19 in collaboration with Institut Pasteur, a world leading institute in emerging infectious diseases. Jean-Philip Piquemal is collaborating with several computational scientists in France and across the globe to study the molecular structure of COVID19.

PRACE is welcoming project proposals requesting computing resources to contribute to the mitigation of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This applies, without being exhaustive, to the following topics : Fast Track Call for Proposals

The 3rd ARM hackathon, organized by GENCI Technology Watch activity, will take place at CEA in Bruyères-Le-Châtel on 2 days, February 2020, 6th and 7th.

The distinguished HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Award, in the category Best Use of HPC in Life Sciences was presented to PRACE, CEA and GENCI at the 2019 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC19), in Denver, Colorado. Tom Tabor, CEO of Tabor Communications, publisher of HPCwire, personally handed over the award to representatives from...

GENCI and Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, today announce that the latest extension of its Joliot-Curie supercomputer, installed by Atos and administered by the CEA teams at its TGCC (Very Large Computing Centre), and based on Atos’ record-breaking BullSequana XH2000 solution, is now live. It is the first operational supercomputer worldwide to include the AMD next-generation EPYC...

GENCI Strategic Plan unveils the next major orientations of the Very Large Computing Research Infrastructure for the years to come. It highlights several issues at the heart of GENCI's concerns, including the convergence of HPC with artificial intelligence and, more generally, aims to put the acquisition of an exascale machine at the centre within the framework of the European dynamic driven by...

The Joseph Fourier Award 2019 aims to accelerate research and innovation by rewarding projects in the fields of numerical simulation and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The ceremony presided over by Sophie Proust, Group CTO at Atos, and Philippe Lavocat, GENCI CEO, unfolded in the presence of representatives of the French scientific community.