The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has launched a call for tender to select a vendor for the acquisition, delivery, installation and maintenance of Alice Recoque, the European exascale supercomputer to be located in France.
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking seeks to procure a second European exascale system. It will be named Alice Recoque, in honour to a French computer scientist pioneer, and will be capable of performing over one billion billion calculations per second. This next-generation supercomputer is another significant technological milestone for Europe. The Alice Recoque supercomputer will tackle Europe’s most pressing societal, scientific and industrial challenges by integrating large-scale numerical simulations, extensive data analysis, and artificial intelligence (AI).
The Alice Recoque supercomputer will have a state-of-the-art, energy-efficient architecture that includes multiple computing, pre/post-processing, and service partitions. These partitions will be linked up by a high-speed internal interconnect, and allow shared access to a tiered data-centric storage architecture. It will be managed by a unified system administration and resource management stack.
The deadline to submit a request to participate in this procurement process is 30 October 2024, 17:00 CET.