SC25 France will get its first exascale supercomputer \u2014 Europe’s second \u2014 when Atos subsidiary Eviden builds Alice Recoque using AMD chips.<\/p>\n
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking is funding the \u20ac554 million ($641.4 million) project to expand European research capabilities in simulations, data analysis, and AI for societal, scientific, and industrial challenges.<\/p>\n
Named after French computer scientist Alice Recoque, the modular system will launch with AMD’s upcoming “Venice” Epyc CPUs and Instinct MI430X GPUs.<\/p>\n
A second partition will add a CPU cluster like Europe’s first exascale system, Jupiter<\/a>, which runs Nvidia Grace-Hopper GH200 superchips and will expand with SiPearl’s Rhea1 processor<\/a>.<\/p>\n Located at France’s National High-Performance Computing Equipment (GENCI<\/a>) facility in Paris, the system comprises 94 racks of Eviden’s BullSequana XH3500<\/a> architecture – upgraded with fanless direct liquid cooling to handle denser, hotter infrastructure.<\/p>\n The accelerator partition will also feature AMD-made FPGAs and will be linked by Eviden’s high-bandwidth BullSequana eXascale Interconnect (BXI) networking, v3 of which supports speeds up to 800 Gbps (in the switches \u2013 the adapters are 400 Gbps), plus DDN storage.<\/p>\n It’s expected by late 2026, pending AMD’s chip availability next year.<\/p>\n The general-purpose compute partition, based on SiPearl’s Rhea2 CPU and BXI networking, will arrive in 2027, although SiPearl hasn’t yet shipped production versions of its first processor.<\/p>\n