"Named Alice Recoque after the pioneering French computer scientist, the new exascale system will serve as an 'AI Factory' operated by the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CAE). Development of the supercomputer is set to cost €554 million ($638.85 million), with investment secured via the European Union's EuroHPC Ju initiative and additional support from the Digital Europe Programme (DEP and the Jules Verne Consortium."
"The Alice Recoque supercomputer will be equipped with next generation AMD "Venice" EPYC CPUs, unveiled in April this year, alongside AMD Instinct MI430X GPUs. Each GPU boasts 432 GB of HBM4 memory alongside 19.6 Tbit/sec of bandwidth, AMD revealed. Elsewhere, a new MI400 Series accelerator will power the system, which AMD said has been specifically engineered for "sovereign AI and scientific computing". Underpinning AMD's hardware is Eviden's BullSequana XH3500 high-performance supercomputing platform, including its Argos software to optimize energy efficiency."
"In an announcement confirming the project, Dan McNamara, senior vice president and general manager for compute & enterprise AI at AMD, said the new system will help drive the "next generation of innovation" in AI and high-performance computing (HPC). "The Alice Recoque supercomputer represents a major step forward for European sovereign AI, uniting national ambition, regional collaboration, and AMD's high-performance and AI compute technologies," he said. "Through our continued collaboration with EuroHPC JU, the Jules Verne Consortium, and Eviden, we are proud to support Europe's scientific and industrial leadership with a platform purpose-built for scale, efficiency and discovery.""
France will deploy its first exascale supercomputer, Alice Recoque, developed through a partnership between AMD and Eviden (part of Atos Group). The system will operate as an AI Factory under the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CAE) and carries a development budget of €554 million ($638.85 million) partly funded by EuroHPC JU and the Digital Europe Programme alongside the Jules Verne Consortium. Hardware includes next-generation AMD "Venice" EPYC CPUs, AMD Instinct MI430X GPUs with 432 GB HBM4 memory and 19.6 Tbit/sec bandwidth, an MI400 Series accelerator, and Eviden's BullSequana XH3500 platform with Argos energy-optimizing software. AMD positions the configuration as purpose-built for sovereign AI and scientific computing to support European research and industrial leadership.
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