The brief

Analyst view

• Alice Recoque: a €554M, five-year project for a machine above one exaflop/s, hosted at CEA's TGCC.
• Built by Eviden with AMD MI430X GPUs and European SiPearl Rhea2 chips; delivery from end of 2026.
• GENCI is owned 49% by the French state, 20% CEA, 20% CNRS, 10% France Universités, 1% Inria.

Technical approach

As reported

Model

Shared national machines

GENCI buys supercomputers and gives research groups and companies computing time on them through calls for proposals.

Sites

Three national centres

The machines sit at three centres: CEA's TGCC, CNRS's IDRIS and the universities' CINES. TGCC hosts the largest ones.

Europe

Co-funded with EuroHPC

The biggest systems are bought with the EU's EuroHPC body, which pays half and shares the computing time across Europe.