TGCC (Très Grand Centre de Calcul) is a new "
green infrastructure
Green infrastructure or blue-green infrastructure refers to a network that provides the “ingredients” for solving urban and climatic challenges by building with nature.Hiltrud Pötz & Pierre Bleuze (2011). Urban green-blue grids for sustain ...
" for high computing performance, able to host
petascale
Petascale computing refers to computing systems capable of performing at least 1 quadrillion (10^15) floating-point operations per second (FLOPS). These systems are often called petaflops systems and represent a significant leap from traditional ...
supercomputer
A supercomputer is a type of computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instruc ...
s at
French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, or CEA ( French: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives), is a French public government-funded research organisation in the areas of energy, defense and sec ...
.
This supercomputing center has been planned to welcome the first French Petascale machine
Curie Curie may refer to:
*Curie family, a family of distinguished scientists:
:* Jacques Curie (1856–1941), French physicist, Pierre's brother
:* Pierre Curie (1859–1906), French physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Marie's husband
:* Marie Curi ...
, funded by
GENCI for the
PRACE
Several centers for supercomputing exist across Europe, and distributed access to them is coordinated by European initiatives to facilitate high-performance computing. One such initiative, the HPC Europa project, fits within the Distributed Euro ...
Research Infrastructure, and the next generation of the
CCRT Computing Center.
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References
Supercomputing