Eviden set to build France's first exascale supercomputer with AMD at the wheel

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 €554 million ($641.4 million) project to expand European research capabilities in simulations, data analysis, and AI for societal, scientific, and …

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Way to go

Good to see Eviden progressing on its 2ⁿᵈ ExaFLOP system. The 12 MW looks ambitious at first but seeing how it is 2/5ᵗʰ of El Capitan's power draw it should lead to at least 2/5ᵗʰ its Rpeak, so 1.12+ EF/s. Some 15% generational perf improvement coupled with 78% efficiency (from the faster BXI?) could then reasonably give it an Rmax of 1.0 EF/s (or 20% on perf and 74% eff, ...).

What would be truly awesome though is if we could get 1 EF/s in 1 MW (or 1 PF/s in 1 kW) in the near-ish future (in full-fledged FP64)!