GENCI at ISC 2023 : Euro-French HPC and Quantum Computing move forward at the service of sustainable science

On the occasion of the 2023 edition of the ISC, GENCI and CINES are very proud to announce that the Adastra Supercomputer has been confirmed in third place in the Green 500. This ranking underlines the progress made by France, and more broadly by Europe, in terms of energy efficiency, and more generally, the awareness shared by all players in this ecosystem of the need to act for a more sustainable IT activity, above all in the scientific, academic and industrial fields. Adastra could also be considered the first operated supercomputer to achieve this level of sustained performance and energy efficiency.

While GENCI (the French national HPC agency) represents France in leading, with CEA support, the Jules Verne candidate consortium including the Netherlands to install and operate the next European Exascale system, it is also represented in the live sessions dedicated to :

– the EuroQCS-France consortium of quantum hosting entities (with Germany, Ireland and Romania), led by France, while the EuroHPC joint venture recently announced the hosting sites for its first six European quantum computers. These systems will be installed at the IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center (Czech Republic), GENCI-CEA (France), LRZ (Germany), CINECA (Italy), PSNC Future Labs (Poland) and Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Spain). In addition to acquiring the systems, the mandate also includes another objective: to integrate them with existing #HPC resources at the sites, exposing various European quantum technologies to users and enabling real #HPC-QC capabilities for the European user community.

– HPCQS and EuroQCS on how to engage and support communities to make the most of HPC-QCS environments, Sabine Mehr will present what is already underway in France through the national HPC/Quantum hybrid infrastructure (HQI) and at European level with the HPCQS project and soon by the 6 new EuroHPC hosting entities towards the EuroQCS vision, a fully integrated, pan-European HPC + Quantum hybrid computing infrastructure.

– energy efficiency management (Wednesday May 24 Bof “HPC Data Center Sustainability and System Energy Efficiency Challenges”: Improving system energy efficiency through “good” sizing). Eric Boyer will present the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) method used by GENCI over the last ten years to tackle this major global problem.

– HPCQS and EuroQCS on how to engage and support communities to make the most of HPC-QCS environments, Sabine Mehr will present what is already underway in France through the national hybrid HPC/Quantum infrastructure (HQI) and at European level with the HPCQS project and soon by the 6 new EuroHPC hosting entities towards the EuroQCS vision, a fully pan-European integrated hybrid HPC + Quantum computing infrastructure.

GENCI will welcome you on stand B220. A presentation including a demonstration will be given by Krisztian BENYO from the French company PASQAL on May 23 on the GENCI stand from 2.30 to 3.00 pm.