The National Computing Center of higher education (CINES) at Montpellier inaugurated the most powerful calculating machine in France, called Adastra. They are able to do 75 million billion operations per second. This supercomputer will enable significant advances in the fields of health and climate. More details in this article.
Montpellier welcomes an exceptional computing machine
The name Adastra meaning “by arduous paths to the stars”, and should attract seekers from all over France and from Europe. The inauguration took place on Thursday, May 4, 2023 at the CINES of Montpellier, where it is installed. It’s about supercomputer the more powerful in France and the eleventh at the International scale. The project is funded by the public body young for a total cost of 30 million euros.
According Stephane Requenatechnical manager of Genci, all the machines in the center will be equipped with quantum accelerators for certain types of problems by 2030. This inaugurates technologies which are then found in the computers of individuals.
What are the features of this machine?
The director of CINES, Michel Robert, is delighted with the technological advances of the centre, which has housed computers for more than 40 years. The supercomputer Adastrabuilt in United States and Czech Republic and considered the most sober from an energy point of view. It will make it possible to refine weather forecasts for the coming decades, which will help to anticipate the next droughts.
It will also be responsible for training artificial intelligence models to facilitate doctors’ decisions regarding medical imaging.
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2023-05-05 11:39:19
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