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France Unveils First Exascale Supercomputer, Alice Recoque

11/20/2025

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Summary

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France will deploy Alice Recoque, the country's first exascale supercomputer, built by AMD and Eviden.
The €554 million project is funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and the Jules Verne Consortium and will deploy AMD EPYC Venice CPUs and Instinct MI430X GPUs.
Alice Recoque will exceed one exaflop and support climate modeling, personalized medicine.
The system will include 94 racks and be operational by 2027 or 2028.

History

Historical Context

The European Union established the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking on September 28, 2018, to enhance supercomputing capabilities across Europe, allocating €1 billion for advanced computing systems. This initiative follows earlier projects like CRESTA and DEEP, initiated in 2011, and aims to bolster Europe's technological independence and research capabilities, exemplified by France's Alice Recoque, its first exascale supercomputer.

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Story summary

France will deploy Alice Recoque, the country's first exascale supercomputer, built by AMD and Eviden.
The €554 million project is funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and the Jules Verne Consortium and will deploy AMD EPYC Venice CPUs and Instinct MI430X GPUs.
Alice Recoque will exceed one exaflop and support climate modeling, personalized medicine.
The system will include 94 racks and be operational by 2027 or 2028.

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