This new leading-edge system “Adastra” takes its name from the Latin sentence “Per aspera ad Astra” meaning “Through hardships to the stars”. Adastra will indeed provide scientists with innovative and large-scale computing capabilities on the difficult paths of research with more than 70 PFlops/s, more than twenty times the computing power of the current system in production at CINES. This will strengthen the position and the means of French research on the exciting path to Exascale.
GENCI has selected the HPE offer based on the HPE Cray EX system after an open competitive dialog that happened during the pandemic period, for 18 months. The selection has been based on a TCO approach, relying both on sustained performance and optimized energy consumption for full-fledged scientific and industrial applications representative of a typical production workload and an innovative process of an integrated collaboration called “contract of progress”, starting for 2 years in November, earlier than the delivery of the system.
