Overview
- Led by GENCI and operated by CEA at the Très Grand Centre de Calcul in France, Alice Recoque is designed to exceed one exaflop for double‑precision scientific workloads.
- The hybrid architecture pairs next‑generation AMD EPYC “Venice” CPUs, Instinct MI430X GPUs and AMD FPGAs with Eviden’s BXI interconnect on the BullSequana XH3500 platform, plus a SiPearl Rhea2 CPU partition and DDN storage.
- Vendors describe a compact, liquid‑cooled system of 94 racks with Argos energy monitoring, claiming 25% fewer racks than other exascale systems and up to 50% better energy efficiency per GPU.
- Funding comes from the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, using Digital Europe Programme resources, and from the Jules Verne consortium led by France with participation from the Netherlands’ SURF and Greece’s GRNET.
- Official materials report differing total cost figures of €544 million and €554 million over five years, and Eviden says production of most BullSequana XH3500 components will be relocated to Europe for traceability.