The Paris Region quantum ecosystem is extremely rich in academic groups, startups, expertise and talents, and also global companies that are prospective customers for technologies that have the potential to disrupt many sectors, be it Finance, Automotive or Biopharma. The Region has been funding programs in support of academic groups for many years (SIRTEQ) and has now decided to shift gears and...

As part of the AMD-COVID-19 HPC Fund supporting global research teams fighting against COVID-19 pandemic, chipmaker AMD has just announced a second phase of donation of computing resources to 21 institutions and international academic sites. In France, GENCI and Inria were chosen to receive the solution offered by AMD.

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...