"SC25 France will get its first exascale supercomputer - Europe's second - when Atos subsidiary Eviden builds Alice Recoque using AMD chips. The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking is funding the €544 million ($630 million) project to expand European research capabilities in simulations, data analysis, and AI for societal, scientific, and industrial challenges. Named after French computer scientist Alice Recoque, the modular system will launch with AMD's upcoming "Venice" Epyc CPUs and Instinct MI430X GPUs."
"A second partition will add a CPU cluster like Europe's first exascale system, Jupiter, which runs Nvidia Grace-Hopper GH200 superchips and will expand with SiPearl's Rhea1 processor. Located at France's National High-Performance Computing Equipment ( GENCI) facility in Paris, the system comprises 94 racks of Eviden's BullSequana XH3500 architecture - upgraded with fanless direct liquid cooling to handle denser, hotter infrastructure."
"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 - the adapters are 400 Gbps), plus DDN storage. It's expected by late 2026, pending AMD's chip availability next year. 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."
Alice Recoque is a modular exascale supercomputer to be built by Eviden using AMD 'Venice' Epyc CPUs and Instinct MI430X GPUs, funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking with a €544 million budget. The system will include an accelerator partition with AMD GPUs and FPGAs, linked via BullSequana eXascale Interconnect (BXI) v3 and supported by DDN storage, plus a separate general-purpose CPU partition based on SiPearl Rhea2 arriving in 2027. The installation will occupy 94 BullSequana XH3500 racks at GENCI in Paris, use fanless direct liquid cooling, and target about 12 megawatts for average workloads.
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